Sleepy Holla Wrote:
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> causeican Wrote:
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> > David in Falls Church. The only thing is, I
> > thought I noticed in the old picture a bank
> rising
> > up on the right of the road. If you look, the
> > electric lines appear to climb up higher, as if
> on
> > a bank. At that same point in your picture of
> > Shreve on the right, the terrain is doing the
> > opposite almost sinking into a hole.
> >
> > How about if you look at Lee Hwy heading north
> > from the circle towards Pan Am, just where
> Blake
> > is? It does bend to the left just at the end
> of
> > the Circle Tower entrance, there is a bank that
> > rises up from the road on the right as it bends
> > left. The road is wavy there but is not making
> as
> > big a dip as it does closer to Pan Am.
> They’ve
> > just about flattened out every wave and ironed
> > down every curve, but maybe you can see
> something
> > that would confirm it. I’m not sure about
> the
> > shadows, but maybe they fit going this
> direction.
>
> Causeican...that theory seems plausible (I used to
> live on Blake) as I drove that often. The problem
> is, in the photo, no true landmarks stand out.
> Over the years curves could be softened etc. With
> no real unique tree's, signage, or other markings
> it's gonna be a tough one. I first thought that on
> the left of the car was a sign, and that is what
> they are looking at...now I'm not sure.
I can see that about this location also. My only concern is the little zigzag where the two cars are, just before the apartment entrance. That's not in the original picture. Looking at an aerial photo from 1937, it doesn't look like the zigzag is there, but it's pretty fuzzy. Usually they straighten out a zigzag, not add one, but, you never know.
It's interesting that the power lines are on the right side of the roadway in both of the "today" images, just like in the original.
If only the original was taken with an I-Phone, we would have the GPS coordinates. HaHa
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