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Merged image with the 2024 photo on the left and the postcard on the right.
Chicago Illinois

Blackhawk Restaurant, 139 N. Wabash, Chicago

A post-fire building by Chicago’s first recognized architect, the first national bowling tournament, big band jazz in the 1930s, prime rib and spinning salad restaurant, gutted in a facadectomy that left the shell as a liner for the parking podium of a condo tower.
Merged image of the 1930s postcard and the 2022 photo
Portland Oregon

Broadway, Portland

A staggering number of theaters once packed American cities, and Broadway was the flashy heart of Portland’s entertainment district. Headlined by the Paramount and the Broadway theaters—amongst the seven marquees visible in this 1930s postcard—today Broadway hosts…two.
Merged image of the postcard and photo
Chicago Illinois

Division Street YMCA/Wendy's, Chicago

Once a community anchor where tens of thousands of people learned to swim, stayed healthy, and found flexible short-term housing. Now, it’s 80% parking lot and 20% fast food drive through—there’s my beef.
Merged image of the ~1910 postcard with the 2023 photo
Copenhagen

Glyptoteket, Copenhagen

A beloved Venetian-inspired art palace in Copenhagen built by the Danish public sector to house the donated art collection of a brewery oligarch, located on a road widened during the car-brained 1950s.

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