Philadelphia Then & Now's Quarterly Compilation

[@GwynethLV]

Old Photos of Old Philadelphia are much more appealing than modern Philadelphia 😮..Great Video 📸 Snaps🎉❤

[@harrowgateguy]

Some of the locations looked really nice a long time ago and look really nice now, but there were decades between when they were boarded up and neglected.

[@george.h5530]

Absolutely great video, lot of work put forth to make this. Would you by chance have any photos of the Fishtown area of the city , I’m particularly looking for a southwest photo of Gordon and Tulip streets ? I’ve seen a photo back in early 90s looking northeast and northwest but I haven’t been able to acquire any southwest. Thank you for the awesome video!!

[@RobertoLopezstudyis]

Great images of Philadelphia then and now! I love Philadelphia!

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

GO MILITARY ⚔ My grandfather came back from the Battle of the Bulge and they moved to 5th and Girard. My father and all family were in the NAVY. ❤❤❤❤❤❤Thank you Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸 Nostrovia 🎉🎉🎉

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Everyone moved away from this area

[@kellyscourfield77]

Places always seem to look better from way back, it’s the same when I see old photos of my country, must be the nostalgia and black and white film

[@XinLao-z4l]

Some residents have buthered once beautiful homes and neighborhoods. 4:45 20th & Columbia is literally a shock to see elegant work of architecture replaced with a cardboard box. How could this hideous building be allowed to be built on this anchoring corner.

[@edbrown6985]

It's happening all over the city.i see so many beautiful houses being made into room houses,they put cheap vinyl siding up and then let the house rot.i live close to Philly and have worked in it alot.i won't go to far into it but original hardwood floors in Philly house's are works of art.the houses with the half round windows that are like 8ft tall are so much better than the modern ones.ive seen many times when 15 or 20 oriental people walk up and down the streets with notepads and cash money wanting to buy your home on the spot if they can get it cheap enough.the city will continue to slowly lose the original things that made people want to live there.philly is a big,dirty, violent,drug ridden cesspool now not many people really choose to move into Philly anymore.just take a ride around Lehigh or Allegheny and look around the side streets.

[@davidw7]

​@@edbrown6985neglect is not merely adding siding or painting brick. If maintained, sudwalks in repair, some green at least added and trees and cleaner.... It all woukd have not been bad. What happened is full neglect and city not maintaing street infastructure and sidewalds maintained....

[@CobblestonestoSkylines]

Great video! Did you travel to each location to get the present day photos?

[@Griff977]

Nope... simply utilize Google Street View and a bunch of other software... Thank you for asking! ;-)

[@CobblestonestoSkylines]

Good stuff! I enjoyed your work.

[@Griff977]

TU @@CobblestonestoSkylines ... I am curious as to how you are animating your illustrations... I'd love to add the effect to actual old imaging.... thanks!

[@CobblestonestoSkylines]

@@Griff977 I use a bunch of different apps, like colorize, runway and heygen.

[@ThomRealEstate-k1y]

What is with the hokey scratchy film effects? These are still pictures!

[@larrysilverfish7548]

Yeah and the like and subscribe icon every 3 seconds. Didn’t like won’t subscribe to something soooo abrasive

[@AB-wf8ek]

For real, old pictures are already scratched and grainy, what's the point of making it worse??

[@jeanetteroberts4427]

The loss of warehouses and factories in the inner city decimated the inner city. Additionally, the loss of businesses moving to the suburbs left a 'donut hole' in the city. Most of the ppl in these sections of the city have been generationally low-income, and they can't afford to keep up with maintenance on these older houses. They're good ppl who try, but the cost of doing things has been overwhelming. Their dependence on the govt. and govt. programs and not businesses re-developing the city is part of the problem. Temple has been buying many of the houses and redeveloping, as well as Drexel and Penn, but their needs to be more reinvestment into the inner city to get rid of the blight. Many of the newer developments in North and South Philadelphia look similar to modular-style homes in Europe. So, it is changing but it is a long and arduous process.

[@barakabaraka2813]

then was better than now.

[@yvonneplant9434]

No AC. No reliable electric service. Coal stoves. Yes, the past was so much better. 😂

[@barbarakempf761]

Some of the then look better than the now

[@trailblazer1047]

Was great at one time but no more,even if it looks it it aint.

[@yvonneplant9434]

Why didn't Philadelphia have any filmmakers taking footage of the city years ago? Just still photos? That can't be correct.

[@davidw7]

I am sure there are of Center Chity the downtown region and wealthy areas. Film before the 1930s was more the silent type that needed intense lighting and was very unstable and would decay if not in dark, cool and dry conditions stored along with would have had to be pro made as no home film was yet had.... We should have some frome key areas that AI clearing, stablizing may be on youtube. Old acitate celluloid film was highly unstable.... Easy search as other city cores at least do... 5:59

[@ErikLentz-d1j]

So many buildings built with the power tool being invented in 1895. Who really built our city?

[@staceycarmody9970]

Most of the Thens look better than the Nows with the exception on 4th and South- so much trash in the street Then. 1936 was the Depression era, may have been a factor.

[@CPAndy-x5x]

Some of the older colorless images seem nicer, but with color might look like the current ones. The lack of color makes them look more uniform.

[@davidw7]

Very few. Should have kept a w/shutters look, less neglect would have been a huge help and replaced more trees or added them. Why none tried a Colonial look.... I will never know that shutters work at and each a unique fron door and out-front latern and low-level flowers hanging from windo sills. Clean streets and decent sidwalks would go a long way also.

[@1realtruthrightnow742]

You win the dumbest comment award.

[@trailblazer1047]

Where are the European American places?left out again.

[@davidw7]

You must mean some rows of wealthier people of the day intact... vs those that became part of hoods and neglect... Wat too much in this city.