This is the skyline of Toledo in the late 1950s and this is today (2005) which is nearly 50 years later:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/1960.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/FullSkyline.jpg

Chicago-1936

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/554/63241936skyline.jpg





Chicago - 2003

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/554/63242003skyline.jpg

Trinity Church (downtown):
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/adams_stclair_trinity.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/TrinityChurch.jpg
St. Clair Street Skyline:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/kresges5and10_adams_stclair_closed1.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/StClairStreetSkyline.jpg

Original County Courthouse:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/old_new_courtthouse.jpg
New Courthouse:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/lucascocourthouse.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/CountyCourtHouse2.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/CountyCourtHouse.jpg

LaSalle Building (downtown):
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/downtown_adams_huron_lasalles.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/downtown_adams_huron_lasalles01.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/LaSalleBldg.jpg

Superior Street Skyline:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/downtown_adams_superior.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/SuperiorStSkyline.jpg

Valentine Theatre:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/valentine_409stclair_1930.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/ValentineTheatre2.jpg

Chicago-1936

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/554/63241936skyline.jpg





Chicago - 2003

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/554/63242003skyline.jpg
WOW! :cheers:

Awesome... :cheers:

This the Madison Street skyline back in 1910:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/Madison-Avenue-1910.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/5-3Tower.jpg
This is today (2005):
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/MadisonStreetSkyline.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/MadisonStreetSkyline2.jpg


View from Huron Street toward Madison Street in early 1900s:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/heart-bldg.jpg
Today:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y297/Decker9999/fifth-third-center2.jpg

Toledo needs some Viagra...

:eek2: HOW DARE YOU! ^

:eek2: HOW DARE YOU! ^
:eek2: maybe just a nice massage instead... if you rub it, it might get bigger... :jk:

look how much busier t-town was back then.

my mom told me stories when her grandma would always cross the hi-level with her and my mom sibslings and would go out to eat downtown everyday. Today, its hard to find ANY business downtown. The economy's standstill... sooo we had to move here to vegas. gotta move where the work is i guess.

i love it here, but i guess you couldsay that my hearts still in the midwest.

Toledo is a big city, but the sprawl never created a huge sprawl like other cities, infact the city has done quite well within its limits.

So to compare Toledo to lets say...Rochester, Buffalo or Cleveland, you have to remember the Metro seems to determine the skyline now, not the city.

thats true, since toledo created a big city within the flatlands of NW Ohio, and kept just about all of the growth in the city.

BTW the skyline shot that gives Toledo the most justice is from the highest point of the hi level bridge. Thats wher you can see all the low rise density.

PS, I loved the streetcars that we used to have.

Detroit 1889

http://www.aiami.com/images/Detroit%201800s.jpg

1901

http://www.aiami.com/images/detroit_skyline_1901.jpg

1920's... The Penobscot and Guardian building own you all...

http://tinyurl.com/cxl9g

1930's aerial

http://tinyurl.com/axwqm

1953 Downtown aerial

http://www.rabidgerbil.com/theatre/Detroit/Arial%20Downtown%20in%201953.jpg

http://www.rabidgerbil.com/Images/Full%20record%20for%20WSU%20Virtual%20Motor%20City%20Collection%20413.jpg

these old pics depress me too much

http://www.rabidgerbil.com/Images/Full%20record%20for%20WSU%20Virtual%20Motor%20City%20Collection%2077301.jpg

1970's

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Cobo_Waterfront.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Detroit_Freeways.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Detroit_Riverfront.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Detroit_Skyline.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Fisher_Bldg.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Grand_Circus_park.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/Ren_Cen.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/vintagedetroit/woodward_Avenue.jpg

90's

http://www.rabidgerbil.com/theatre/Detroit/USA-MI-Detroit-worldprints2.jpg

Today

http://www.rabidgerbil.com/theatre/Detroit/Dowtown%20Detroit%20with%20CoPa%202000.jpg

Old pictures depress me too. The cities of the 1930s were real cities, not the dead zones you see today in Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo, et al. Even my sunny new city of Phoenix had a much more vibrant downtown in the 1930s. A couple of months ago, I saw pictures of the grubby working class city of Springfield, Massachusetts. It nearly made me cry, for as dingy as the city used to be, it was alive in every meaningful category. Today, it's sterile and gutted, the way Americans seem to prefer.

people here do seem to have a strange fascination with the 'morbid beauty' Detroit possesses. I dont like my city being known as a Rome, or 'the city that once was'. Wouldn't you rather be known as 'the city that still has it'? I sure as hell would. The whole surburban/exurban Metro area pisses me the hell off, and reading the articles about the dead leaving Detroit and the "paradise beyond the sprawl" just reminded me of why we left the area. Nobody can co-operate. The people inside the city seem to absorb all of the filthy comments dished out towards them from the burbs and middle america, and lash it all out against them and the mayor; whereas the metro detroit area only knows the people inside the city as "****** lovers", and frankly, i cant handle it. I dont get Detroit, nor do i get anything about it. Sure I plan to move back, but as long as the economy here stays alive and well, i'm gonna wait out the storm before i head back.

And to leave oout on a good foot, "I will always love you, Motown".

bump dammit, this thread needs love, and other midwestern city pics.

Here are a few pictures over the past few years of Minneapolis, sorry if a few of them are large.
1857, nothing but farms
http://www.municipalbuildingcommission.org/images/Mpls02.jpg
1920's
http://www.municipalbuildingcommission.org/images/CHCC09.jpg
1920's, with U of M in foreground
http://www.municipalbuildingcommission.org/images/CHCC05.jpg
1950's
http://www.mplib.org/history/images/m4910.jpg
1960's U of M
http://www.cala2.umn.edu/gateway/History%20Images/Aerial.JPEG
1969, vibrant
http://www.mplib.org/history/images/mil1433.jpg
1971, construction of IDS
http://www.mplib.org/history/images/mil0174.jpg
1982, Metrodome newly built and 33 S. Sixth under construction
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/1258-61.jpg
1989
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/2709-06.jpg
1992
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/METRODM/2709-21.jpg
Today
http://www.bclofts.com/710/Images/MplsSkyline.JPG

^^ Wow, how she's grown. Cant WAIT to see the new condo towers when theyre finished. And the anticipated office boom after THAT!

Awesome MPLS pics!

Milwaukee 1969
http://www.boomspeed.com/paule17/13144.jpg

Milwaukee 2004
http://www.boomspeed.com/paule17/mpark922.jpg

EWW! the inflatable dome!!!111

Hey, Milwaukee looks beautiful from that last angle

Here's a bigger today pic of Minneapolis, It's not mine but in the public domain... It generally lines up with the 1982 pic posted earlier.
http://www.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/7c/Minneapolis_skyline_daytime_2.jpg

EWW! the inflatable dome!!!111

Hey, Milwaukee looks beautiful from that last angle
It's my personal favorite view of Milwaukee's downtown.

Yes it looks rather nice doesn't it.

Here's a special thanks to all for all the great pics in this thread!

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3923/getimage32lr.jpg
70's
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9320/48da.jpg
Most Current
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4656/mkeale9lg.jpg