[Leica] IMG: Same Scene 1967 & 2016

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

Original messages:

>While the ad on the side of the building shows scotch whisky (Cutty Sark)
>back then, implying more discriminatory tastes, the later shot has beer ads
>(Busch & Guinness) implying a slippage in the local demographic. Then you
>look again and see the new balconies - gentification surely. It's a
>comparison of eras that nonplusses....

>Douglas

>I love the variety of different beers from the early shot, replaced by
international brands in the modern. I remember all those great varieties in
the >German-dense regions that are now gone. Not Milwaukee for me, but
Cincinnati had many as well.

>Fascinating what the unintended backgrounds of our images can reveal,
isn?t it?

>Thank you!

>Adam
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Thanks, Douglas and Adam.  I'm enjoying checking out the details in the old
photos too.

-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
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