By Bernice Radle:
Have you ever wondered what once stood on the corner of Allen and Park Street? Today it is a vacant grass lot, however one would be surprised (or not) to see that it was once a beautiful, Italianate style home with a small storefront. BRO has featured some of these past/present articles, but for anyone who wants to go exploring on his or her own, there are easy ways to do so.
The website whatwasthere.com (put history in its place) is available for anyone to see images of ‘what was there’, combined with current overlapping Google ‘street view’ images. The website allows you to fade in and out between the historic photo and what exists today. It gives you a great “before and after” of many areas across the city. It’s also interactive, you can add historic photos too!
Pretty neat, huh?