"Street View" your old neighborhood

I recently joined this forum and only now saw this section so forgive me if this is old to everyone, but...

This week I found myself doing a google map search of the earliest street address I could remember living in. I Zoomed down to street view and waxed nostalgic as I "roamed" the old neighborhood. A lot has changed but damn...

I'm about to turn 50 years old so it's been decades. The old elementary school, the corner store where my mother would send me with a note to buy her cigs, the spot of my first fist fight, places I used to ride my bike.

I spent almost an hour at this. Oh how times have changed.

 

what?c an you rephranse that?

 

Rephrase? Lol well dude there is nothing better than a good nostalgic feeling

 

oh why didnt the op say that?

 

its simple; Google Earth

and yes wounded healer, I also took a virtual visit to where I grew up in Pa.
Some things are the same, some things are different. It was kind of cool to get down to street level and look around.

Oh, Welcome to HF :cheers2:

 

Yes welcome Lol first post is about google earth they really are taking the world over one by one. First they make it peoples first post.. Now what?? They have an ad on the TV?? 0.0

 

yeah, welcome aboard mate!

first off i say... FUCK GOOGLE!

why in the hell would i waste time on that shit?

i travel back to my home town (duluth, minnesota) once or twice each year.
i was raised the first 9 1/2 years of my life, on west 7th. street.
i was just in duluth back in february of this year.
yes a lot had change. i felt like i was 5 years old again, when i was skiing down the middle of the street, to the supermarket again.
the old red owl supermarket is no longer there.:sad: it's now a large indoor shopping center.

 

Thats a good past time, I wish that I would have a childhood where I skiid places.. Thats just awesome!! Lol

Got to admit.. I still use it.. Its almost impossible when you are searching for something for you not to go to the address bar and type "google.com" Because thats what people have been typing since like the 90's. I try to use bing but I never remember lol

 

blackcat666, thanks for the welcome and Fuck g. (notice I didn't capitalize the name). I don't get back home so often and when I do, I rarely visit the very earliest neighborhoods.

GangGang, thanks for the welcome. Not quite my first post and maybe it would have been placed in the geek section, but the post wasn't really about the tool as much as it was the "blast from the past".

Thanks PB_Smith. And though I have the "Earth" program on my home machine, for some reason, it was only recently (maybe boredom... I was at work at the time) that such a virtual tour occurred to me. Usually trying to find my "footing" where I am at moment or mapping a path to where I'm heading.

Hi sadist. It's kinda' late where I am and I may not totally have my wits about me but to paraphrase GangGang, there is nothing like nostalgia. That's all.

 

I don't have an old neighborhood yet.

 

I know you are new

but try to keep up with us

 

Wow. Glad to hear i'm not the only one to check out old neighborhoods on Google Earth. What a trip! Kind of nostalgia and sometimes (so many have died, sigh) sadness producing too . . . But, i gotta say, overall, the coolness factor the the technology overwhelms whatever maudlin feelings may arise . . . we truly do live in very interesting times . . .

 

Very Interesting times indeed.