PLAY See a picture of where you grew up

[Loon]

See a picture of where you grew up - this is really neat!!





This IS really fun! Betcha can't stop playing with it! See a picture of where you grew up.This is really amazing....Check out some of your old"haunts."

When you enter an address you will see a picture of that place. There's a little map with a little man on it - you can move the little man up and down the block if you need to. Use the N on the direction circle to look around. I just looked at my childhood home!

Really nice website! http://www.vpike.com/

 

[fairbanksb]

Pretty cool but totally foreign. Not a thing in my old neighborhood that looks even vaguely familiar. Of course it has only been some 45 years. I couldn't even recognize my old house. It is as if the homes have been torn down and rebuilt, which I guess is possible.

 

[frugalboomergal]

WOW!! Thanks foir that link. I was thinking of wandering over to the old area knowing that things would be so much different. I was surprised I remembered the house number since we left in 1962 when I was 10. I DID recognize the house and areas of it but it is still quite different and somewhat trashed as is the rest of the block. Neat being able to do the 360 and see the other houses of the kids I played with and really brought back a lot of good memories. That was the first house my parents were able to buy and was true for all the rest on the block. All the guys were WWII vets and trying to get on their feet. I am glad I will not be driving over there--I saw what I wanted to see.

 

[fairbanksb]

WOW!! Thanks foir that link. I was thinking of wandering over to the old area knowing that things would be so much different. I was surprised I remembered the house number since we left in 1962 when I was 10. I DID recognize the house and areas of it but it is still quite different and somewhat trashed as is the rest of the block. Neat being able to do the 360 and see the other houses of the kids I played with and really brought back a lot of good memories. That was the first house my parents were able to buy and was true for all the rest on the block. All the guys were WWII vets and trying to get on their feet. I am glad I will not be driving over there--I saw what I wanted to see.

My folks first home in FL. I was about 6 when we moved in. I just looked it up on Zillow. My folks bought the home brand new. It cost them $14.9k in 1956. At the peak of the bubble in 08, according to Zillow, the house was worth $310k. Because of the big drop in values it is now valued at $134k, but still, from $15k to $134k for a 50 yr old house.

 

[night driver]

ROFL.


Mom and Dad paid 7K for the house and land and my bro sold it (with improvements including a second house) for slightly over a quarter mil.

Small town, NY.

 

[eXe]

Well, the place we lived in in NYC is no longer there, but I did find the place we moved to in Westchester NY once we moved out of NYC.

Right in Tarrytown NY, even lucky enough to have a picture of our old apartment with terrace and all.

Talk about a walk down memory lane..

 

[bluelady]

eXe, how did you get the pic? I wanted to copy some of mine but couldn't figure out how to do it.

 

[IceWave]

Looks like it's just Google Maps streetview.

 

[LindaPie]

Cool! Thanks so much! My parents are sitting on the front porch (at least I see two white heads).

They bought the house in 1962 and still live there. I was born & bred in that house (well not exactly BORN in it).

My husband will love it!

 

[FREEBIRD]

Lol, can save myself the trouble---all I have to do is go for a walk.

I live in the same neighborhood I was raised in, and my parents grew up about a mile away.

The only visible change is the occasional gang graffitti.

 

[Moggy]

What fun, Loon, thank you!

 

[CarolynA]

I Google Earthed the place where I was born & the whole area has been razed & is now the Tijuana border crossing area. We lived just over the border from where the Tijuana airport was built. A few hundred feet south & I would have been Mexican.

 

[eXe]

eXe, how did you get the pic? I wanted to copy some of mine but couldn't figure out how to do it.

Just get the picture you want, and hit print screen. Copy the image to an editing program and cut out what you want.. save and post.

 

[Stonecolors]

Wow, Thank you. How the old neighborhood in NYC has changed. The businesses have their signs in English now, wasn't like that in the 70's LOL.
Thanks again for the trip down memory lane.

 

[GardenOfGlory]

Good ol' Google. Invasion of privacy. Remember........you're being watched!

 

[Oilpatch Hand]

Good ol' Google. Invasion of privacy. Remember........you're being watched!

But...they're watching you from the public right-of-way. Using a series of still pictures taken from a moving vehicle. On a certain indeterminate day sometime in the recent past. When you probably were not even there to be watched.

 

[ioujc]

Um>>>>>>that's SCAREY!!! I looked at where I am now, and it is a very recent picture....like maybe 2 years ago. Must have been the census workers???? I mean it is a close up of everything. I don't like it!!

 

[Satanta]

Won't do me any good. All I have to do is look at a U.S, map and pick states. Not much use looking for places as there were so many I missremember.

 

[GardenOfGlory]

But...they're watching you from the public right-of-way. Using a series of still pictures taken from a moving vehicle. On a certain indeterminate day sometime in the recent past. When you probably were not even there to be watched.

True. But when one thinks of all the hands this information falls into, it's not fun.

Fortunately, all the properties I've lived on for the last 40 or so years are country, so all it shows is the road, and sometimes not even that. But still.....I don't like it at all.

 

[Cardinal]

Kind of sad. The forsythia bush my mom had planted is gone, replaced by a tree. We had a slate pathway that ran from the front door down to the slate sidewalk-neither are there any more. The shrubbery in front of the house has changed, too.

 

[ceeblue]

All gone now: one place burned down, another is a freeway, one is a parking lot, one is an office building.

A few places, including the childhood home, are still there. Others are so far out of the way, there are no pictures.

 

[momof23goats]

OUr house is still there , this is so cool. .

 

[lectrickitty]

All my old homes and haunts are rural addies that won't come up. I guess they aren't much interested in photographing the fences, weeds, and cows out in the boonies.

 

[ainitfunny]

Just remember, you are TRADING a piece of your vital personal info for a peek at that house. That information is NOT DISCARDED. Your search is recorded and added to your "file" as one place you may be familiar with, may return to if eluding the law, or which may be the home of a friend or your birthplace. It also may be sold to identity thieves.

 

[maric]

Just remember, you are TRADING a piece of your vital personal info for a peek at that house. That information is NOT DISCARDED. Your search is recorded and added to your "file" as one place you may be familiar with, may return to if eluding the law, or which may be the home of a friend or your birthplace. It also may be sold to identity thieves.

I could care less. It's where I grew up and thats just common knowledge. Just don't put in your email addy, thats all.

Thanks for posting this Loon. Made me homesick for the old place.

 

[Avatar]

I saw something like this before.

This one is VERY cpu intensive, but if you got the horsepower it is way cool.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/the-wilderness-downtown/?f=

Works best in google chrome if you have it.

 

[Penguin Zen]

Hometown

The place is still mostly same LOL... I was very lucky to grow up where I did in Fla.
I lived across / side from Swimming Hole .. what wonderful memories !!

THANKS LOON for the post !!

 

[juco]

Lol, can save myself the trouble---all I have to do is go for a walk.

Same here.

I've done my share of moving around, but never more than 20 miles from where I was born and raised. My DH is a military brat and was amazed that I had always lived in the county.

 

[Usually Curious]

So, it's cool when you're looking up old houses, but evil when other people are using it to look you up?

This stuff gives me the creeps.

 

[Lone Eagle Woman]

Now Thanks for Posting. As for as myself, looking up places that I lived as a kid in growing up in various parts of the country. My father had worked for Shell Oil and was transferred around a bunch. I also looked up old Church sites and other places that I had gone to. And in how things are going now, I will not be seeing these places anytime soon and maybe never will again. So what is there to lose. It was really interesting and my how some of the places had changed bigtime! The saddest site was of an old nondenominational church I had gone to years and years ago which was now some used car old mechanics lot and the old chuch building was long gone. Such memories! It also brought back how many of those old childhood memories long buried. Again Thanks for Posting!

 

[Ginger root]

That was fun. Visited a few places I used to live and frequent as a kid. I could see this sight becoming addictive for me.

 

[jba48]

Just remember, you are TRADING a piece of your vital personal info for a peek at that house. That information is NOT DISCARDED. Your search is recorded and added to your "file" as one place you may be familiar with, may return to if eluding the law, or which may be the home of a friend or your birthplace. It also may be sold to identity thieves.

I think this is probably a bit of a stretch, though I guess possible. Even if it were possible, how in the world could someone steal my identity by finding out I looked at a picture on Google Maps (which that basically is)???? Actually, nah, it's not even possible.

99.9% of us are not important enough to have a "file" of our random internet searches. As in all things internet, just use common sense when giving out identifying info.

jba

p.s. Don't be mad that I disagree, ainit. You're one of my favorite posters!!!

 

[eXe]

I saw something like this before.

This one is VERY cpu intensive, but if you got the horsepower it is way cool.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/the-wilderness-downtown/?f=

Works best in google chrome if you have it.

As someone who works in web design.. that was friggen amazing!

I had a bunch of stuff open.. but I am running a beast of a fast computer.. lol and it all loaded perfectly. Pretty darn good. If anyone does try it.. close down everything but the one browser. I could see how that would kill a slower machine