San Jose Before and After

[gem2niki]

Researching photos in Downtown San Jose and came across this site: http://www.bvnasj.org/

As a San Jose native, I feel attached to the city I grew up in.

This site has some amazing photos of Downtown San Jose in its early 1900s to its 1970s with side to side comparison of modern years.

http://www.bvnasj.org/SanJose19752006.htm - 1975- 2006
http://www.bvnasj.org/SanJoseThenNow.htm -1900s- Now


The old architecture that still remains in downtown always gives me the feel fuzzy inside. It was enjoyable to be surrounded by the sophistication of the design when I walk around downtown. Before there were a lot of Victorian styled buildings but were replaced by butt ugly plain homes and buildings in the 1970s. Yuck.

How come SJSU don't get those awesome hallways anymore? D: Before | Now

I kinda want to transport back in time and see how life was then XD;; And being surrounded by old buildings :D (That's what I love about New York and San Francisco ---I just hate how crowded it is over there and the homeless bums scare me.)

Comments

[lysori.livejournal.com]

Ooh, awesome photos.
Yeah, going to Europe was a trip. So much history to those old buildings. Especially interesting to see old buildings with worn exteriors and stuff with modern high tech stuff molded into it.

Also, hawt icon!

[gem2niki.livejournal.com]

I want to go to Europe one day~~ maybe i should do that instead of Japan trip... (or do both!! haha) The buildings there are ancient. Must be fun to draw.

Natsume is hawt :D

[neru-kudasai.livejournal.com]

wow, i wish it still had the old buildings too T.T

[mmmketchup.livejournal.com]

Ooh, such nice old photos *u* I totally don't recognize any of these buildings though orz

lol I feel the same about bums, one time I walked into a part of SF that was like their main gathering area AND IT WAS REALLY SCARY hahah ;A;

[gem2niki.livejournal.com]

There's some parts of San Jose I haven't seen myself yet XD;; But it makes me want to go take a drive and check it out while its still there.

Before and after photos are interesting tho regardless of where it is at.

Isn't there a bum gathering in front of city hall? XD

[mmmketchup.livejournal.com]

lol is there?! idk, I've never seen so many bums gathered in a single place until I stumbled into that area orz;;