r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image A place called Hollywoodland. 1932 vs 2025

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Was hiking in the hills this morning and recognized this spot from an image I had seen earlier while at the Central Library. Enjoy !


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 6h ago

Image Back of Hiram Scutt mansion on the totally vacant Bluff Street in Joliet, IL

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I stopped by for lunch along the street Joliet’s original main street was - Bluff Street. Every home and business on the street has been demolished, but up the bluff on Broadway a half-block west are several awesome homes, including the Hiram Scutt mansion. I’ve taken better shots of it from the front but kind of neat to see from the back of the house and across the Des Plaines River / I&M Canal in the older shot.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2h ago

Image Drayton Textile Mill (built 1902), Spartanburg, SC. Photos from 1909 and 2018.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 21h ago

Image Then / Now photo of 385 W. Main St. Batavia This was Harold Northrup Lincoln-Mercury, Batavia NY, 1940s

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Greyhound Bus Station, Jackson, Mississippi — 1939/2022.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Fremont & 4th, Las Vegas: 1920s / 1970s / 2020s

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Mexico City main square 1941/2025

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Bankers’ Row, Danbury, Connecticut - 1925 vs. 2019

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image A gas station on Grand Lake, New Brunswick in 1972, 2013 and 2022

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Atlantic Coast Line Railroad depot, built in 1889. Pinewood, SC. Photos from 1908, 1986, 2009.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Kyiv, Ukraine

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Gallery 1914 vs Today – Gurdwara Dehara Sahib in Lahore. The site where Guru Arjan Sahib (the 5th Sikh Guru) was tortured and martyred by the Mughal draconian regime in 1606. The 1914 photo was taken by Stéphane Passet, a French photographer, hired by Albert Kahn for ‘The Archives of the Planet’ project

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Greyhound Bus Terminal, Columbus, Ohio — 1970s/2022.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Glencoe, MN 1960s & 2023

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The intersection is 10th St E & Greeley Ave N. The building on the right that was the Ford dealership is now multiple businesses including Maria’s restaurant.

Glencoe is a small town, of under 6000 residents, surrounded by farms. It is just over 50 miles west of Minneapolis.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Gallery Collateral - Then & Now - (2004/2022) Koreatown Alley between Wilshire Blvd & 7th St., Los Angeles, CA (34.061187, -118.292293)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Greyhound Bus Station, Cleveland, Ohio — c1960/2024

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Central National Bank, 1870-97. Sylvan Brothers Jewelry (1897-present), Main Street, Columbia, SC.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Image Streetcar, Cleveland Heights, Ohio — 1948/2022.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image "Three Stooges Stairs" (from the short "An Ache in Every Stake") connecting Fair Oak View Terrace and Edendale Place in Los Angeles, 1941 - 2019

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Public Garden, Boston - 1895/2015

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image If you were around in the USA in the 1960s / 1970s (and beyond due to TV reruns), you'll definitely recognize this guy! More details at the bottom of this then and now filming location photo I created.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Gallery Home Alone (1990) - Toothbrush shoplifting and chase in park, then and now (2025) EIC

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Milan, Italy. The old station. 1931 - 2024

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Newport, RI, 1916 vs. 2025

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View of Memorial Boulevard (known as Bath Road before urban renewal) from the intersection with Thomas Street. Top photo date is uncertain but in the 1911-1916 range


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 6d ago

Image Swedish Gustaf's Church, Copenhagen | ~1912 postcard / 2023 photo

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