the skiing onion 0 Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 They were good climbers! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I reckon, in those days they would pay the peasants good money to pull the cart up the mountain. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Great photos, always nice to see what a place used to look like years ago. Actually an ex student of mine showed me pics of Shinjuku from 60 years ago, it was totally unrecognisable, just looked like a tiny country village, was just all open countryside with a few houses and shops. And all around where rice fields and allotments. It is really hard to imagine shinjuku ever looking like that when you see what it is like now. Wish I had a copy of those photos would put them on here then. Anyway thanks for the pics SJ great to see, especially as I past through there yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I remember seeing some old Shinjuku photos. Old photos are great wherever, always interesting to see how a place has changed. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Shinjuku Nishiguchi in 1957 My guess seeing that though would be that the area was wiped out in the Fire Raid. Your history books at school may not use the word "napalm", but that's pretty much what was dropped on Japanese cities. That's Shinjuku Hon-dori at the end of Taisho (1925ish). Looks quite built up. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 each school I go to has these old photos of the shcool and surrounding area on the wall covering about 40 - 50 years, some of the aerial photos have no buildings at all, just fields, forests and streams and now its all super concreted-up-Yokohama Link to post Share on other sites
inned muppet 0 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Is that a tram on the photo there Mr Wiggles? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I guess so. I just found the photos via a two minute Google. I've reupped the first photo that wasn't coming up for me at least. Link to post Share on other sites
shimazu 0 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Interesting photos, it brings back memory for me! (well some of the more recent one). I remember Yuzawa from about 40 years ago, it has change very much since then. Many thing become convenient but I prefer scenery before the building and station arrived I think. I will try to get some other photo I may have also. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Yes please Shimazu - we would LOVE to see them. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Hi shimazu, yes please do! Link to post Share on other sites
TochigiTim 0 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I love seeing old photos wherever they are of. You can look at some for such long times and still get things out of them. Where I live here in Tochigi though seems to have been in some kind of frozen state for the last 50 years. Photos from back then look pretty much the same, just without the vending machines! Link to post Share on other sites
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