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A rather fancy name for “lots of postcards and screenshots.” But postcards are an invaluable resource; in the golden age of postcards, there were innumerable views and locales to be sent back home, to make people feel slightly envious that you were in, say, Waco. Or you’d passed a huge new church and felt compelled to inform the relatives. There’s more to the site than postcards. The NEW YORK site is huge, and is still unequal to the subject. MINNEAPOLIS is under constant revision, and FARGO was corrected and restocked in 2020. DOWNTOWNS is a collection of Main Streets across the country, as seen by Google Street view - it's a weekly feature on the Bleat, and there are over 200 cities. MAIN STREET POSCTCARDS is self-explanatory. SNAPSHOTS is a collection of one-shots, slightly futzed. There are larger old mall sites out there, but that hasn’t kept me from putting my cards together in MALLS OF YORE, and the MODERN CHURCHES site is puny but instructive.GHOST SIGNS takes a look at the faded painted signs from long ago.NODAK SMALL TOWNS was the first "artsy repurposing of Google Street View shots" I did. Lots to enjoy, and remember - clicking on the picture should move you along to the next one. Lileks |
