[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo and Update
Aram Langhans
leica_r8 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 28 16:45:43 PDT 2026
Ha. For a while I thought the same derelict car was going to be there.
Nice comparison of how time changes. The Seattle Times use to run a
spread called Now and Then and it showed similar things. Interesting.
Aram
On 8/24/2026 1:43 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
> To get to a medical facility, I travel on Commerce Street, which runs
> along the Milwaukee River north of downtown. In 1970 it was an
> industrial area, and it provided me with subjects for a picture story
> on pollution. This was a few months after the 1st Earth Day. Back
> then I found this derelict Chevrolet near the Humboldt Boulevard
> bridge over the river, and today stopped to capture the same view 56
> years later. The new picture is more of a wide shot, but can be
> enlarged to show the (replacement) Humboldt bridge in the distance.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/Commerce_+St_1970_AMR.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/Commerce_St_2026_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> The river has been cleaned up and is now lined by condos.
> --
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer, Emeritus
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amagayneroshak at gmail.com
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>
--
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
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