I love Stuff like this

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » January 10th, 2009, 2:36 pm

Intersection of 7th Street and Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky

Top is from 1929 and the bottom is from Google Earth so 2007 or so.

I have indicated the only building reamining the same by a red line in each photo.

Tim Elston · Postby **Tim Elston** » January 10th, 2009, 6:17 pm

Gerald Creasy wrote:Intersection of 7th Street and Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky

Top is from 1929 and the bottom is from Google Earth so 2007 or so.

I have indicated the only building reamining the same by a red line in each photo.

I don't know what you do for a living, but have you ever considered being a Louisville historian? When I cleaned windows in Denver, I cleaned the house of a guy who made a living as a Denver historian. He was interesting to talk to. He knew so much about the houses and streets of Denver. He invited me to have lunch with him, and it was a great chat. If you love this kind of stuff, you could probably put together a photo book, or something, and go from there.

oletimer · Postby **oletimer** » January 10th, 2009, 6:19 pm

What a neat cement truck, they don't make them like that any more.

Postby **Shellie** » January 11th, 2009, 2:46 am

Gerald, is that building a bakery?

Gerald Creasy · Postby **Gerald Creasy** » January 11th, 2009, 5:33 am

Shellie wrote:Gerald, is that building a bakery?

The bakery is behind that building (facing Dixie) and it too is a building from that time, but in the old photo it can't be seen for the trees.

Tim, that would be a good job but it is currently held by a UofL professor and city council member. I'm an amatuer historian.
One mile Further down from that intersection is the home of Bennett Young which was recently refurbished and turned into an assisted living complex.

Immediatly to the left and behind the viewer was one of the oldest churches in Louisville, which had been turned into a storage shed. A storage shed!! And was quietly demolished within the last few years.

As a kid in the sixties I ate in a restaurant that was housed in one of those old buildings along the left in the older photo. (About where the Walgreens is now)

TW · Postby TW » January 11th, 2009, 6:42 am

It is interesting to compare photos like that, and see how the character of an area changes over the years. Often times these changes are for the better, but sometimes we lose part of our history in the name of "progress." I applaud cities that establish and preserve "historic districts." For a number of reasons I feel that we must never lose sight of where we came from and what we were. "Historic Districts" help us to remember.

TW

Postby **Shellie** » January 11th, 2009, 11:43 am

Wow..thanks Gerald. That is the bakery that did mine and scooter's wedding cake.

PastorDaniel · Postby **PastorDaniel** » January 11th, 2009, 2:46 pm

much coolness..

beckrl · Postby **beckrl** » January 11th, 2009, 2:56 pm

Gerald
That is some cool stuff and fun to see the changing of time.
I like the old times picture :wink:

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » January 12th, 2009, 5:27 am

Gerald,
That is fantastic.

I've always told my wife..... if you could go down the city streets with a video recorder and focus on each building very slowly you will notice in just 10 years from now how drastically that video would/could be.

In just our lifetime.. we could record some pretty amazing local related footage that could be used in a multiple of future events.

It's just something about the present that people usually forget to record.. but it becomes yesterday at an astounding rate.

It just takes "time" to do it and store it properly.

Jude 2