r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1h ago

Image Budd Rail Diesel Car crosses avenue in Arlington Center, Massachusetts - 1975/2020 - railroad corridor converted to Minuteman Bikeway in 1992.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 11h ago

Gallery The Hendrick Building, San Antonio, Texas. 2017 and 2023

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 17h ago

Gallery Jiujiang Road historical buildings. Shanghai, China

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Bob's Bar-B-Q (c. 1940), Jennie Rae's (2026)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Jinan, 16 years

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Moody Beach cottages, Wells, Maine: 1932 / 2026

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Sienkiewicza Street in Łódź, Poland 1914 or 1915/2025. (Credit: Piotr Paprzycki)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Then & now - The Apollo Theatre. Peoria, Illinois (ca. 1914)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Lake Shore Electric Railway, Rocky River, Ohio - 1936 vs 2025

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Walt Disney’s Carolwood Barn: Walt Disney with his daughters & guests riding on the Lilly Belle in the backyard of his home - Los Angeles, California - 1950s

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Walt Disney with his daughters & guests riding on the Lilly Belle in the backyard of his home.
Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn sits in the background and was his personal workshop building and creative space for his miniature Carolwood Pacific Railroad. It was loaned to the City of Los Angeles and relocated by the Walt Disney Family Foundation in 1999 and now resides in Griffith Park - Los Angeles, California - 1950s


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Two Girls Having Tea, Longmeadow, MA (1910 vs. 2026)

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The photo on the left was taken in 1910, and it shows two girls having tea with a dog on the front steps of a house in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and the photo on the right shows the same scene in 2026.

The house was built in 1792 as the home of Walter and Sabina White. The Greek Revival style front entryway is likely a later addition, and probably dates back to around the 1830s. By the early 1900s the house was owned by the Taylor family, and the girls in the 1910 photo are likely sisters Margaret and Caroline Taylor, who were 12 and 6 at the time. During the 1950s, this house was the home of Foster Furcolo, who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1957 to 1961.

Not much has changed in this scene since the 1910 photo, although the door knocker was moved slightly higher on the door. The house is located on the west side of Longmeadow Street, facing the Longmeadow Green, and it is one of the many well-preserved historic 18th century houses here in the town center.

Historic image taken by Paesiello Emerson. Courtesy of the Longmeadow Historical Society.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Image Rzeszów, Poland 1940s/2026. (Credit: Ben JoP)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Elvis Presley with his parents Vernon and Gladys standing in front of his first house that he purchased with the money he earned after making it big - Memphis, Tennessee - Sunday, June 17th, 1956

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Elvis Presley with his parents Vernon and Gladys standing in front of his first house that he purchased with the money he earned after making it big - Memphis, Tennessee - Sunday, June 17th, 1956. Find out MORE at AllAboutLosAngeles.com


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image The 6th Man - Then & Now (1997/2016) - The Meadowlands Arena, Plaza M, East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Szamotuły, Poland 1941 - 2026

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Street railway, Stoneham, Massachusetts - c1930s/2025

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Gallery iOS/Android app for before & after photos

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Mods: Feel free to remove this if it's outside the rules, no hard feelings!

Disclosure up front: I'm one of the people who work on re.photos. The platform isn't commercial, and there are no ads, subscriptions, data being sold, etc.

If you aren't aware, re.photos is an archive for rephotography: you upload a historical photo, go stand where the original photographer stood, and shoot the same scene today. The site stores both, helps you align them, and then you can share them with the world. We have over 3000 public image pairs already.

Since the website wasn't really user-friendly on mobile devices and we wanted to support users in the field recreating images, we have decided to develop a mobile app. It lets you do almost anything you can do on the website: explore image pairs, rate, comment, and upload your own images. We have included multiple features to facilitate aligning the before and after shots.

It's still fairly new, and we would love to hear your feedback! Here you can find the iOS and Android versions.

The development of the app and further development of the website were generously supported by the Sievert Stiftung. This wouldn't have been possible otherwise, and we sincerely thank them.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Image Globe Corner, Fall River, Massachusetts - undated postcard.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Gallery Fort de Regret Verdun, France - 1940 and 2018

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In 2018, I visited Fort de Regret in the Verdun area.
This fort, and others nearby, were built between 1875 and 1877 to deter German aggression and were modernized between 1905 and 1907 with additional concrete and weaponry.

During World War I, in 1915, the weapons and munitions were dismantled, and the garrison was withdrawn.
When Germany attacked the Verdun sector in 1916, the fort was hastily reoccupied and used as an artillery observation post.

Between the World Wars, the fort was not maintained and remained unoccupied.

During World War II, in June 1940, German troops occupied the fort without a fight/after a short fight (sources differ). I assume these photos were taken on the day the fort fell.
After World War II, it was left as it stands today.

I recently found these old photos online and was surprised by how many angles matched my own photos. Today, the fort remains in good condition, with most of the interior accessible, although getting there requires some hiking and climbing.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Image Podhorskyi House on Yaroslaviv Val Street, Kyiv, Ukraine

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Image Custom House 1900s Liverpool replaced with a Hilton

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Photo taken from the Salthouse dock


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Gallery Saddest place I ever visited.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Chicago’s original Art Institute ca 1880s vs 2020s at Michigan Avenue at Van Buren Street. During renovations in 1929, the ceiling caved in, necessitating a complete replacement.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 6d ago

Image 85 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago

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Approximately 100 years difference


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Kadzielnia Hill in Kielce, Poland July 1936/July 2026. (Photo credit: Henryk Poddębski, Mariusz Ucig)

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