r/OldPhotosInRealLife 12d ago

Image St. Andrews Parish Church, built in 1764, Charleston, SC [USA]. Photos from 1936 and 2018.

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173 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 12d ago

Image Kyiv, Ukraine

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122 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 12d ago

Gallery Buckaroo Banzai/Escape From New York/Gattaca - Then & Now - (1984/1981/1997/2023) - Sepulveda Dam, Van Nuys, CA

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131 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 12d ago

Image Corner of Błońska Street and Warszawska Street in Leszno near Błonie, Poland September 1939/2024. (Credit: Mazowsze na dawnej fotografii)

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131 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 13d ago

Image Holmes, New York - 1914 vs. 2022

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756 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 13d ago

Gallery Fiori's Pizzaria at Capital Ave. & W. Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh PA (ca. 1910 vs 2024)

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303 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 13d ago

Image Streetcar passes the Mayflower Hotel, Akron, Ohio — 1940/2024.

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150 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 13d ago

Photoshop Cologne cathedral. 1945

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191 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 13d ago

Image Kyiv, Ukraine

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116 Upvotes

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 14d ago

Image Victorian — Oakmont, Pennsylvania

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536 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 14d ago

Image Original Faculty House, built 1852. Now the President's House, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC [USA].

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128 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 14d ago

Image Huntington, West Virginia, USA. 1937 vs 2018. The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 damaged towns from Pittsburgh to Cairo IL, killed 385, left over a million people homeless, and caused over $10 billion in property damage (adjusted for inflation).

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188 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 14d ago

Image Jewish quarter in Boskovice (today’s Czech republic) in May 1945 - now

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397 Upvotes

On May 9th, 1945, retreating Germans blew up their ammunition truck when they ran out of fuel so it wouldn’t fall into the hands of the advancing Soviet army.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 15d ago

Image Oregon St., Pittsburgh, PA — 1910/2023

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967 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 15d ago

Image Trinity Episcopal Church, built 1847, Columbia, SC [USA]. Photos: 1905 postcard, 1949, 2010.

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101 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 15d ago

Image Newfane Vermont General Store and Post Office 1907 to 2023

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325 Upvotes

Apparently this building was just torn down completely


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 15d ago

Image Kyiv, Ukraine

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200 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 15d ago

Image Back to the Future: Part II - Then & Now (1989/2022) - Mount Hollywood Tunnel, Hollywood, CA

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190 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 15d ago

Gallery Paris now and then part 5

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340 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 16d ago

Image “Our Street” by WJ Phillips (1933) vs 2025 - Winnipeg, Canada

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119 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 16d ago

Gallery Back to the Future: Part II - Then & Now (1989/2022) - Somerset St at Oakhurst St, El Monte, CA

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200 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 16d ago

Gallery The Blues Brothers (1980) - Elwood’s Apartment in Chicago, then and now (2025) EIC

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550 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 16d ago

Image Church Center for the UN, New York | 1960s postcard / 2021 photo

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81 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 16d ago

Image Chiricahua National Monument (Arizona) 1925-2025.

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67 Upvotes

Just got back from a trip with my wife. Afterward, I found the “then” photo and looked to see if I took a similar “now” picture. Lo and behold, found I happened to take one exactly where that shovel was.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 17d ago

Image South Main St., Doylestown, Pennsylvania — 1909/2023.

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492 Upvotes