Then and Now
Over the years I have seen what I like to call these then and now pictures. They are photographs of places where I grew up, places where the current appearance is not at all like what I remember they looked like when I was a kid, or even a college student. Some of these places are just amazing in how little they have changed over time, others you would never be able to recognize today due to the development that has taken place over the years.
In the case of Dutchess County and Hudson Valley history there those places where time has stood still, long enough for us to get one more view of the setting before everything around it was turned to the next parking lot, the next fast food place, the next strip mall. A number of these places can be found on old post cards, family pictures or photographs turned into post card material. For some of these post cards, I decided to go back to these old places to compare them with their current settings, and was amazed at what I sometimes uncovered, back then when I first learned about this place, and now, reflecting back upon these changes.
