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In reply to the discussion: One of my favorite things to do ... tour neighborhoods of my youth with Google Earth! [View all]90-percent
(6,829 posts)16. here's a cool historic overlay map site
https://www.historicaerials.com/viewer
i want to do an accurate overlay of where the railroads were in my current neighborhood. this kind of does that a little.
i also did google earth for the last home i lived in in freeport illinois that we moved from in 1959. located it from address of old letters and generology.com. eerie seeing pics of a place i havent seen since 1959!
triggers lots of childhood memories.
-90% Jimmy
i want to do an accurate overlay of where the railroads were in my current neighborhood. this kind of does that a little.
i also did google earth for the last home i lived in in freeport illinois that we moved from in 1959. located it from address of old letters and generology.com. eerie seeing pics of a place i havent seen since 1959!
triggers lots of childhood memories.
-90% Jimmy
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One of my favorite things to do ... tour neighborhoods of my youth with Google Earth! [View all]
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
OP
Right? For such a simple concept, it's actually really friggin' cool, man :) (nt)
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#3
I grew up in Flint, so a lot of the places of my childhood memories are no longer, but
kcr
Apr 2019
#4
Lol ... I'm in AZ now, but grew up in an absolutely beautiful part of the Bay Area
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#14
Put it his way, there's probably 6 LDS Churches within a 2 mile radius of my house ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2019
#21
I've even done it for the house my grandparents lived in when my Dad was an infant
csziggy
Apr 2019
#15
Yes! It's so cool to see my old neighborhoods and "drive thru" on Google Earth
FakeNoose
Apr 2019
#20
I've done that - found the house we lived in when I was 3-4 years old.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2019
#27