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- kajoob, on 11/18/2007, -2/+96no you won't
- kenvsryu, on 11/18/2007, -5/+64I'm glad the (PIC) tag was added.
- colinbrady, on 11/18/2007, -1/+46not many.
- inactive, on 11/18/2007, -3/+47Agreed, I like to see the same vista taken today and compare.
- wario, on 11/18/2007, -0/+38john fielder did a whole book, of pictures in 1870 and in 2000 from the same locations, the picture in questions then and now
http://www.johnfielder.com/detail.php?id=06041 1870
http://www.johnfielder.com/detail.php?id=06042 2000 - alperea, on 11/18/2007, -0/+31I can see Casa Bonita! :)
- badwithcomputer, on 11/18/2007, -19/+50That John Denver's full of *****.
- numberneal, on 11/18/2007, -6/+32nice shot. the technicolor makes it looks like an oil painting.
- scaaven2, on 11/18/2007, -3/+28I just dropped my beer and caught it in mid-air
- MrBabyMan, on 11/18/2007, -0/+24It's Denver in 1898. That was probably rush hour.
- andregriffin, on 11/18/2007, -1/+23A blank tape is $2.99.
A John Denver tape is 99 cents. - philthetechie, on 11/18/2007, -9/+29I'll be in Denver in 3 days, I'll do my best to track down the same location and snap a panorama
- shoutsmurmurs, on 11/18/2007, -4/+22HUGE Color panorama?
Oh...it's a PIC... - djphatjive, on 11/18/2007, -0/+15I live in denver and can't even figure out where that is!
- kiiwii, on 11/18/2007, -1/+16Whoa, I didn't realize they had 10 megapixel cameras back in 1898! ;-)
- SAOSiN, on 11/18/2007, -5/+18Oh snap!
- peterjmag, on 11/18/2007, -1/+12It's a process called Photochrom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom ).
Here's the Library of Congress link to the original file, with a few more details: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@fi ... - inactive, on 11/18/2007, -0/+9pics?
- DaviDaviDaviD, on 11/18/2007, -1/+10Great shot. Just amazing to see no cars in a city, seems sort of eerie! Brilliant quality too.
- inactive, on 11/18/2007, -5/+14I can see my house
- lhbaker, on 11/18/2007, -0/+9I's really shocking how much of what is in this photo no-longer exists. The mansions in the right foreground are parking lots and hotels, but there are still a bunch like them to the east of this area. It wouldn't be recognizeable but for the Brown Palace. The church steeple to the right of the Palace is still there, surrounded by sky-scrapers.
- bubbakja, on 11/18/2007, -0/+9I think the giant "palace stables" sign near the bottom left corner about sums up how times have changed
- mediaspree, on 11/18/2007, -0/+8Rivers are more condusive to trade than mountains.
- jdmcadam, on 11/18/2007, -3/+11Anyone have 109 year old colour panoramas of interesting cities?
- Toshibi, on 11/18/2007, -2/+9That pic would make a great puzzle.
- lex0nyc, on 11/18/2007, -0/+7Too early to be Technicolor. I wonder what process was used. It's possible that it is a hand-painted black and white shot.
- bigpeeler, on 11/18/2007, -0/+7Skiing
- OneLess, on 11/18/2007, -1/+8Actually you seem to be the only one who thought about MS Vista. Kind of ironic.
- InitialDMP5, on 11/18/2007, -0/+6uhhhh I think the photography nerds were roamed in bigger herds back then. Taking pictures was still an amazing thing back then and not everyone had the ability to take pictures. You had to have the equipment and the patience. Knowing how to take a picture back then meant having to know that camera pretty damn well. Also there was no photoshop to put together a panorama image or color correct or anything. It was all done on negatives and through color processes. An amazing time for film in general (still and motion)
- MikeFallopian, on 11/18/2007, -0/+6Welcome to Digg, where every single submission is a conspiracy.
- anachronaut, on 11/19/2007, -0/+6Casa Bonita has the world's worst "Mexican" food. Their bean burritos are literally tasteless refried beans straight out of a can with gobs of Cheez Whiz. The food quality at Taco Bell is far, FAR superior to Casa Bonita. Fantastically bad is exactly right... I'd even go so far as to say that the food there is breathtakingly, nauseatingly bad.
It's a good thing they have cliff divers and other gimmicks to distract people from the inedible food. - joshuaer, on 11/18/2007, -1/+7The Closest to Carbon neutral Denver has ever been!
- pelline, on 11/18/2007, -1/+7Great panorama, looks like a beautiful city.
- haxx4, on 11/19/2007, -0/+5The beauty is largely from the absence of now-ubiquitous billboards.
- Torx, on 11/18/2007, -4/+9seriously, who would dig this down?
- terracottapai, on 11/18/2007, -0/+5Does anyone here actually know what Technicolor is?
This ain't it. - ajchavar, on 11/18/2007, -1/+6my birthday last summer, i was in the area and my buddies took me to casa bonita. it is EXACTLY as described/depicted in south park. it was fantastically bad, and so much fun. i was surprised that there actually were cliff divers, and a mariachi band that sang happy birthday to me.
sopapillas ftw! - whataboutdave, on 11/18/2007, -0/+4Cameras had longer exposures back then as well. There is a chance that people walking around wouldn't even show up at that distance.
- davecor, on 11/19/2007, -0/+4It's hand tinted. Good old fashioned watercolor and paintbrush technology. It was a real art and they had all kinds of masking techniques - frisket, tape, latex etc. I used to play with it back in the early '80s.
- Spartandog, on 11/19/2007, -0/+4The colors are typical of the hand-tinted postcards of the time, which is why there is a limited range of colors. Most likely it was a brochure image. I have a tourist brochure of Montana with similar kinds of images from 1900.
- inactive, on 11/18/2007, -1/+5You go, Phil!
- adam07, on 11/18/2007, -1/+4Nice to see a pic of my hometown on digg. The skyline is a lot different now with the Cash Register building, the Qwest building, the Republic Plaza and other skyscrapers.
- MateyO, on 11/19/2007, -0/+3The triangular building to the right is The Brown Palace. The diagonal street in the foreground looks like Broadway, and the main street extending to the west is probably what is now 16th street. This really looks like it could have been taken from the capitol building.
- doshindude, on 11/18/2007, -6/+9smart people who think it's completely irrelevant.
- u8eR, on 11/18/2007, -4/+7http://www.bylandwaterandair.com/images/usa/denver ... : Denver now.
- rekenner, on 11/18/2007, -0/+2The photo was taken in 1898.
- GruntboyX, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2It just had amazing detail and I figured that kinda of detail wasn't possible in photographs from that era. Obviously i am mistaken
- crestfall, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2i don';t think anyone was told to stand still for the duration of the exposure.
- MateyO, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2You can see the smokestack of what is now the Tivol (student union at DU), and at about the 1:30 position, another smoke stack that's the 'Old Spaghetti Factory'....Pity you can't see Union Station from this vantage point.
- inactive, on 11/19/2007, -0/+2Yes I wonder who won the nobel prize for inventing the color red, where would society be without it?
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