75-captivating-looking-into-the-past-pictures. Is your city included?

[snagglepuss]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/75-captivating-looking-into-the-past-pictures

[olddots]

1. I couldn't tell

L.A. is in constant state of ugly getting uglier .

[SoCalDem]

3. Most cities of any size have a historical photo archive linked to their websites

and some of them have magnificent pics going back centuries.

[MineralMan]

2. Interesting, but too awkward to check out.

Since there are no cities listed in the buzzfeed set of photos, you have to click the source link to even find out where those were taken. I did it for a few, but no way do I have time to look at them all. Too bad.

[Blue_Tires]

4. +1000

would have been MUCH better to see a year/city/context under the photo instead of clicking a new link every time...

[starroute]

11. There's a Flickr group of these things

Lots of them -- and it does include locations.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/lookingintothepast/pool/

[arcane1]

5. That was extremely cool :)

I wonder if I have some old photos lying around that I could do something like this with.

[tridim]

6. Link isn't working for me. nt

[spanone]

7. nor me

[snagglepuss]

8. Here's the link again. FYI its on BuzzFeed's home page

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/75-captivating-looking-into-the-past-pictures

[tridim]

10. I think you may have it cached or something...

The story is gone. Oh well, no biggie.

[snagglepuss]

9. Here's the link again. FYI its on BuzzFeed's home page

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/75-captivating-looking-into-the-past-pictures

[intheflow]

12. Really cool!

The first few were the best, but the one that stopped me dead in my tracks was the photo from Market Street in SF - today overlaid with a shot from the 1906 earthquake. Amazing!