Throwback Thursday

I'm a big fan of those historic/current photo mash-ups of cities that you see around the internets every now and then. So, in honor of this here Throwback Thursday, I thought I'd juxtapose some street scenes from around NHV.

Note: all historic images from the Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Image Database, all street-views from Google, taken ca. 2011.

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We'll start of with an aerial, ca.1930

Yale School of Medicine (YNHH) is at the bottom. Note the neighborhood between the Medical School and central downtown has yet to be raised and replaced with the Route 34 Connector.

 Broadway, Elm and York, ca. 1940

Notice the trolley tracks and wires.

Chapel Street, looking west from College Street, ca. 1890

Traffic did not exist.

Church and Chapel, ca. 1896

I'd prefer those trolleys to that city bus.

1 Church Street (at George Street), ca. 1890

Congress Avenue where it once intersected with Church (now North Frontage/Route 34 Connector), ca. pre-1957

Now the Knights of Columbus Headquarters.