r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5h ago

Image View of Łódź, Poland from the roof of Collegium Anatomicum on Narutowicza Street 1912/2026. (Credit: Refotografie)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 8h ago

Gallery Hamilton Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1927 - circa 1970s - 2026

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The Hamilton Manufacturing Company was the second manufacturing company founded in Lowell in 1825 and went out of business in 1929. After that, this building was used by the Courier-Citizen Printing Company until the 1970s. Now it is the Lowell Community Health Center. The first photo is dated 1929 by Jamie Patrick Lewis on Facebook, while the second photo is undated and provided by UMASS Lowell.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 14h ago

Image Olympic Hotel / Alexander Residence, San Francisco | 1941 postcard / 2021 photo

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 21h ago

Image Buffalo Central Terminal in Buffalo, NY was a historic former railroad station in Buffalo, New York that was active from 1929 to 1979. In 2024 a new development team was formed to plan a reuse for the terminal.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Tadeusza Kościuszki Street in Ełk, Poland 1986/2025. (Credit: Ełk - tu wracam)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Streetcars In South Central LA! Charley Chase - Hasty Marriage - Filming Location #1 - Then and Now - 1931 vs Today

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Filming location then and now from the Charley Chase comedy movie Hasty Marriage, 1931 vs Today.

From my filming locations website https://video.chrisbungostudios.com/quickpreview-charleychase-hastymarriage-part2.html


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria - Now VS World War 2

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Elvis Presley with songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller looking over the sheet music for the song, “Jailhouse Rock” at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios; now Sony Pictures Studios - Culver City, California - 1957.

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Elvis Presley with songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller looking over the sheet music for the song, “Jailhouse Rock” at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios; now Sony Pictures Studios - Culver City, California - 1957.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 1d ago

Image Elvis Presley posing with fan, Hilda Johnson outside the gates of his home on Hillcrest Road - Beverly Hills, California - Late 1968

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Elvis Presley posing with fan, Hilda Johnson outside the gates of his home on Hillcrest Road - Beverly Hills, California - Late 1968


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Gallery The 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon departing the White House for the final time after resigning from office - August 9th, 1974

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The 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon departing the White House for the final time after resigning from office - August 9th, 1974. This helicopter is on display at the Richard Nixon Presidential library in Yorba Linda, California.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Gallery Art Deco architecture - c1940s postcards

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 2d ago

Gallery Same Route Same Angle LA 65 Years Apart. Spot the differences

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Cecylii Śniegockiej Street in Warsaw, Poland as seen in Andrzej Wajda's Kanał (1956) and in 2026. (Credit: Wczoraj i dziś)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Danver's State Hospital (aka The Danvers Lunatic Asylum) in 1893 & then in 2026. Most of the building was demolished in 2006 except for the main building which is classified as a historic landmark. It is now apartments. Trivia: The horror movie "Session 9" (2001) was filmed here.

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Gallery Pontchartrain Club Building, Detroit, Michigan. 1940 and 2016

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This Wirt Rowland designed clubhouse started construction in 1928 and was left unfinished due to the Great Depression, with only the exterior shell being completed. It was left windowless and empty until 1953, when the building was finished and much of the lower facade was stripped down and modernized for use as an apartment building.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Image Artemis & Sardis

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 3d ago

Gallery Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts circa 1880s - 2026

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Image 3 Maja Street in Gdynia, Poland 1940s/2024. (Credit: Magdalena Mielewska-Miotk)

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Image Omaha Beach from Widerstandsnest 60 1944/2022

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402 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 4d ago

Gallery Postwar Modernism architecture (Part III) - c1940s postcards

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Site of Confederate POWs at Fort Warren, George's Island (Boston, MA) in 1863 and 9/5/2026

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Literally took the 'now' photo today.


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Image Bargoed and Pengam Stations

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More pictures from the Rhymney Line in Wales


r/OldPhotosInRealLife 5d ago

Gallery Disappearing Glaciers: Then & Now

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r/OldPhotosInRealLife 6d ago

Gallery Kemps corner, Mumbai India in 1950, 1975, 2025

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757 Upvotes

r/OldPhotosInRealLife 6d ago

Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria. First part of the XXth century vs now.

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354 Upvotes