50-year-old street scenes
12/29/2010
Pictures of roads and traffic routes from the past are always interesting to look at. So much has changed and yet you can probably recognize some streets even after 50 years.
Tiefenaustrasse in Bern will probably look familiar to every local even after 50 years, even if the cars and road signs, but even more so the advertisements, have changed considerably. The VW Beetle is present in almost every picture of a street during this period.
This elevated road in Tokyo, taken in 1959, was innovative 50 years ago. The road runs over the roofs of houses, so to speak.
It is not surprising that there are no Beetles visible here (in Tokyo), but many vehicles with pontoon bodies.
We would be delighted to receive impressive street photographs from the past from our zwischengas readers, which we would then be happy to publish.
