The subreddit r/OldPhotosInRealLife is pretty much the closest thing we have to a time machine. Its 596k members are constantly comparing past and present through rephotography — the act of taking a photo of a place that has already been photographed before. The end result is like a portal, fusing together two different periods.
After we at Bored Panda published our first story on this online community, we’ve kept an eye on it and quickly realized that its earlier posts weren’t a fluke. From overgrown Machu Picchu in 1915 compared to the site in 2020 to visitors in The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in 1910 and 2019, r/OldPhotosInRealLife consistently features interesting angles, presenting things in a different perspective to the one we’re used to.
#1 The Big Oak; Thomasville, Ga (1895/2020)
Image source: thegregtastic
#2 My Family Farm C.1900/2000. It Was In Our Family For 125 Years. My Childhood Bedroom Window Is In The Top Center. It Was Also My Father’s And My Grandfather’s Bedroom
Image source: pappard57
#3 Ancient Greece Before And After Excavation
Image source: Just_Another_Gen-Zer
#4 Craftsmanship
Image source: b-e-e-p-b-e-e-p
#5 Here Is My Great Great Grandfather’s Nashville House In 1896, Two Years Before My Grandfather Was Born. This Picture Has Always Been In The Family Of Course, But Only Today Did I Use Google Maps To Look Up The Address And Find It How It Looks Today. I’m Thrilled That I Found It
Image source: pappard57
#6 The Golden Cross Inn, Coventry. 1819 vs. Now
Image source: Islamism
#7 Visitors In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Viewing Painting (Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing The Delaware – 1851) 1910 And 2019
Image source: d7mtg
#8 The Berlin Wall Fell 31 Years Ago Today!
Image source: jofurch
#9 Hiroshima 75 Years Ago
Image source: Adamstowellll
#10 Machu Picchu, Peru. 1915 & 2020
Image source: Tuccano-
#11 Amazing Looking Home Restored In Detroit. 1993 And Now
Image source: reddit.com
#12 Czech Out Prague 1910 And 2020
Image source: Stotallytob3r
#13 Milan, Italy 1950s And 2021
Image source: Axelxxela
#14 Hick’s Court, St Ives, England – 1888 And Today
Image source: Le_Rat_Mort
#15 English Tank In The Streets Of My Town, 1945-2021
Image source: Timonius262
#16 Town Square In Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany- During The Battle Of The Rhine, April 1945 And 2021
Image source: DiosMioMan2
#17 Van Gogh’s ‘Cafe Terrace At Night’ From 1888 And Present
Image source: jazz4
#18 Today vs. Childhood Memory
Image source: MrMacBro
#19 In 2005, Some Friends And I Found The Road To Jabba’s Palace Off Twenty Mule Team Canyon In Death Valley, Ca
Image source: hitokirivader
#20 Church St. Martin In Cologne, Germany 1946 And 2021
Image source: Etsu87
#21 Theodore Roosevelt Would Be Proud
Image source: sethsta
#22 Curtiss C-46 Commando, One Of Pablo Escobar / Carlos Lehder’s Drug Smuggling Planes Near Norman’s Cay In The Bahamas, After 35 Years Submerged In Saltwater
Image source: abaganoush
#23 The Royal Crescent, Bath, UK. 1829-2020. Built 1774
Image source: TogderNodger
#24 The Main Entrance To The City, York, England 1865 – 2015
Image source: hasanah78
#25 It Hasn’t Changed Much In 157 Years, Aside From The Platform Height And Electrification. The World’s Oldest Undeground Station, Baker Street! *saxophone Plays In The Distance*
Image source: jjnfsk
#26 Court Of The Lions, Granada, Spain – 1840 And Today
Image source: Le_Rat_Mort
#27 Abandoned Restaurant In Petrópolis, Brazil (1960’s And 2013)
Image source: Mackelowsky
#28 The Royal Mile, Edinburgh, Scotland – C.1847 And Today
Image source: Le_Rat_Mort
#29 Unfinished Manhattan Bridge In 1908 And Now
Image source: reddit.com
#30 Buenos Aires, Argentina [1925, 1980, 2002, 2021]
Image source: patagoniac
#31 Kraków, Poland (1939 And 2010s)
Image source: Mackelowsky
#32 Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur, India. 1798 Lithograph By Thomas Daniell And 2016. Built Between 1003-1010
Image source: 1NbSHXj3
#33 Arch Of Constantine In Rome, 1943 (Taken By My Grandfather), And What It Looks Like Today
Image source: PrivateTumbleweed
#34 Stonehenge: 1877 And 2019
Image source: ProjectFailure
#35 Woodstock Festival Site- 1969 / 2020
Image source: spkelly37
#36 St Francis Of Assisi Church
Image source: englishdemon
#37 A Former Public Bath In Wuppertal, Germany, Now A Brewery And Beer Hall. 1993 vs. 2019
Image source: Injustpotato
#38 Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peninsula 1964 – 2016
Image source: Logan-rice88
#39 Trains At Harper’s Ferry, Wv In 1947 And 2021. The 1947 Image Taken By Ed Wittekind, 2021 Image Shot By Me In The Same Exact Spot
Image source: AGuyFromMaryland
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