Does your city have any? There is a "Retro Quad Cities" facebook page that is fantastic. I would be interested in looking at others.
Does your city have any? There is a "Retro Quad Cities" facebook page that is fantastic. I would be interested in looking at others.
yes we have one - I learn a lot there and just posted a question there!
There's a bunch of them for Buffalo. They tend to focus on the city's glory years: the 1950s and earlier. The sites are interesting, but not many younger than 50 would get weepy paging through them. A few:
Forgotten Buffalo - heavy Polish-American/old East Side focus.
Buffalo Broadcasters Association
staffannouncer.com - more local radio/television nostalgia
The Buffalonian - if you're really old. The photo gallery is a must-see.
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
Yes, the city of my youth, Syracuse NY is there too - love it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2226651976/
HistoricDetroit.org has a pretty good Facebook feed. They post a nice mix of photos and stories of days gone by and news about new development and historic preservation.
Wayne State University has a huge digital collection of historic photos from Detroit too that are always fun to search through.
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - 1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
FL Nostalgia: https://www.facebook.com/OldFlorida1?ref=stream
At my age, a ton of stuff I know, have seen, miss, you name it...
There is a nice "Dirty Old Boston" Facebook page that takes you back...
I frequent the Retro and Historic Phoenix pages and forums quite often. They also have a lively City Data thread about it that has almost 7,000 posts and lots of pictures. There is a also a great Google+ page of AZ and Phoenix historical photos.
Fun sites I frequent:
http://funsetstrip.blogspot.com/
https://plus.google.com/107506220715...osts?rdipvld=1
http://www.bradhallart.com/phoenix.htm
"When life gives you lemons, just say 'No thanks'." - Henry Rollins
http://forgottenchicago.com/
Mostly a series of articles on obscure remnants of the built environment.
Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/groups/forgo...ref=ts&fref=ts
Facebook page is more nostalgic than the website.
A friend of mine put these together. Great shots of mostly 40s-70s Omaha. I hope it can be seen by non-friends.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/se...3706512&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...3706512&type=3
Here are a couple of mine:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldhood2728/photos/ - the neighborhood site, Zip Codes 48228 and 48227.
www.detroityes.com
We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes - Fr Gabriel Richard 1805
I used to have a Facebook group (yes, I created it) for the "Northwest Suburbs" of Chicago. It was basically a somewhat-humorous, somewhat-sentimental, somewhat-historical, highly localized, yet very true list of "you might be from the Northwest suburbs if..." and it had about 100 different entries. Some of them weren't always PC. But it was all generally true and quite funny to most residents. I think the group had over 3,000 members at one point. Eventually, people added more and more pictures, more and more comments, and more older folks started to join and the dialogue and pictures turned into a nostalgic lovefest dominated by Baby Boomers recalling the region in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, as well as people who moved elsewhere who missed the area.
I don't know whatever happened to the group. I don't know if someone reported something and Facebook deleted it, if it got deleted when Facebook transitioned old groups to new groups, or who knows, maybe I or the other admin just up and deleted it (and I forgot about it). It was fun while it lasted, and I still have the "you might be from" list...in fact, I posted it on Cyburbia once: http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36529
"Life's a journey, not a destination"
-Steven Tyler
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