Member Contributer robwalmsley Posted January 30, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted January 30, 2012 Very nice post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB-Oz Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 thanks for sharing your then and now pix, you sure did put in some effort to find the "now" pics. well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer PorradaVFR Posted January 31, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted January 31, 2012 Just awesome - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer arrow Posted January 31, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted January 31, 2012 Thank you so much for the beautiful pictures, loved every one of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer cruzinaz Posted January 31, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted January 31, 2012 Wow,and as everyone has said Thank You for the great post I wonder how many of us will be thinking about this thread next time we ride....I know I will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Good thoughts all. Thanks. OK, a few more... The well attended Boulder Falls in Boulder Canyon with well attended to men sitting still for the cam... The Falls were closed to stabilize the rocks and hillside behind me, so I looked left and right and snuck in for a pic with no one present... Platoro was a flare and fade mining community in deep southern Colorado... Today, it mostly sees residents in the summer. If you have a DS bike, while not observable in this pic, the South San Juan Wilderness abounds in all directions. Forest Road 250 winds through it all, and it is a truly magical place that will put you in a I-have-no-words-to-say trance... Russell Gulch is another boom and bust town. During boom times over a thousand lived here... Today during bust times it is hardly populated with people, but it is populated with old and empty and small miners cabins... If you hopped off the train in St. Elmo in 1878, this is how you might have been greeted... If you rode in today... And after walking through town and looking back... And doing the same today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcincy Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 These are beautiful and brutally painful! I had the pleasure of my dad being stationed at Fort Carson as a kid and have been trying to drag my wife back out there ever since...unfortunately she's not having any part of it . Thanks so much for putting these together, excellent job and even better content! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Excellent execution of a classic theme. Thanks for sharing your relections of timeless motion. Should be published... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyBR Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Nice... I'd like to hit this myself: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer RoadToed Posted February 13, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted February 13, 2012 Excellent job on the the posting and finding the now pics. I orginally expected to see now and then pics of members motorbikes but was pleasantly surprised with the post, good job. Thank goodness for silver halide photos (black and white) they will last for damn near ever. We are a making a mistake going to digital because in a hundred years from now you probably won't be able to find any digipictures from our time. It's a shame, so go and buy some kodak so we don't lose b&w film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer FHR Posted February 14, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted February 14, 2012 sfarson, those are just fabulous. I've looked at them again and again. I owe you a "thank you"! The photos are reminiscent of Northern Nevada where I live and the nearby Sierras in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer majordomo490 Posted February 15, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted February 15, 2012 That was really great. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum CEO HispanicSlammer Posted February 15, 2012 Forum CEO Share Posted February 15, 2012 Nice... I'd like to hit this myself: It is right on the foothills of Golden overlooking Coors brewery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thanks all. Well, OK... another batch... Como in South Park 70 years ago... In a way, not a whole lot has changed at this high meadow (10,000ft. elev) town, founded by Italian miners... Here's the old Foxton Post Office 60 years ago... I don't think the wires have moved since!... A Lookout Mountain curve 1930... Today from the parking lot at Buffalo Bill's grave site. This is a fun riding road... Pagosa Springs 1920... Pagosa comes from the Ute word "Pahgosa". The chamber of commerce says it means "healing" waters. Uh huh. The more correct meaning is "smelly waters". Indian tribes would fight over the possession of hot springs. Back before there were nice hot showers or hot tubs, these kinds of places had serious appeal. To build up the downtown area, the San Juan River was relocated south about 100 yards, near the sulphur hot springs, which are behind me. In front is the downtown today... The Nevadaville City Hall in 1933, decades after the mines closed down and the miners moved out... I think it is better shape today... When the last residents of St. Elmo rode out (literally) on the last train before the line closed, the abandoned buildings were left on their own. In 1930, a few decades after the place became a ghost town... After another 80 years, some occasional care has helped them withstand the elements... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Hey another batch in case interest Paused at the motorcycle destination spot of Deckers today. Great riding in every direction. Gold medal fishing abounds in the Middle Fork of the South Platte here. Saw some rainbow whoppers snacking on natural flies as I strolled along the river finding where the photographer stood long ago. There's a fly shop (Flies & Lies) here. The river and dirt roads of 100 years ago have been rerouted. Most of the structures are gone as well. Oh but those hills remain unrerouted... Facing north, the river and road crossings of Deckers back then... Climbed the hill overlooking Deckers in the motorcycle gear. Could have scrambled a little higher to the rock the individual is sitting on, but would have been amidst a dense stand of trees... It actually was quite the idyllic place back then. Good fishin', good game in the forests, etc... And you know, the fishin' and the huntin' remain good, as does the ridin'. A guard rail and a seriously big tree nearby prevented me from a slightly better perspective... And one could even refresh in a lithia bath back then... Today... The old Deckers post office and store was to the north of today's structures. Can see it in the first old image above, across from the large dark building... Just an empty and small grassy field, with a hillside more populated with trees (very typical nowadays)... The Morrison school in the late 1800's... I think it is a residence now... Bear Creek would rampage through Morrison periodically after heavy rains would soak the canyons above town. The dam at Evergreen ten miles to the west put a halt to the unruliness of the water, but not before this flood 80 years ago, with mud the photographed aftermath... The tamed stream is behind me in this "now" pic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Cogswell Posted March 31, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted March 31, 2012 Please - keep 'em coming! This is a really enjoyable thread. I also circle back to the Tarryall video every once in a while too. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V4 Rosso Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Hey another batch in case interest Absolutely! I love these pics. Here is one I took a few days ago: 1928 2012 Not much has changed. Google streetview with Amsterdam in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Awesome pictures! My mouse wheel thanks you! (up...down...up...down...up...down) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee 2002 Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 This has become my favorite thread, ever. I also have worn out my mouse wheel scolling up and down. I have to wonder if sfarson is working on a book of this type of photo comparison of Colorado then and now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer cruzinaz Posted April 5, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted April 5, 2012 This has become my favorite thread, ever. I also have worn out my mouse wheel scolling up and down. I have to wonder if sfarson is working on a book of this type of photo comparison of Colorado then and now? :+1: and if he is I would buy the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer obryap Posted April 5, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted April 5, 2012 Awesome pictures! My mouse wheel thanks you! (up...down...up...down...up...down) HaHa, I was just doing the same thing, up...down...up...down!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V4 Rosso Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 <ot>I don't get it why they make modern computer screens the size (in pixels) needed to watch HD movies. Fortunately my trusty old CRT at 1392 vertical pixels is still doing OK, no need to scroll to see two pictures.</ot> When you hit F11 your brower goes full screen and you do not need to scroll that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer YoshiHNS Posted April 5, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted April 5, 2012 Great thread idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer FJ12Ryder Posted April 5, 2012 Member Contributer Share Posted April 5, 2012 Way cool. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hey another batch in case interest Absolutely! I love these pics. Here is one I took a few days ago: 1928 2012 Not much has changed. Google streetview with Amsterdam in the background. V4 Rosso... Sorry I missed this! You know, my mom's side of the family comes from Rotterdam, and the images I've seen look similar to what you have place here! Excellent then and now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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