I found the TAS nostalgia site quite interesting (url below).
Does anyone know of any sites providing old pictures of Taipei ?
Here are a few I found via Google:
http://taiwanresources.com/info/history/photo.htm
http://academic.reed.edu/formosa/
This is from Yuan-Liou, a Taiwan publisher.
http://www.ylib.com/taiwan/hismainall.asp
This one too. They send me old photos every month. Yuan-Liou has has three books of old photos on Taiwan.
Warren
Funny I had a look on google and got none of these.
Excellent name, Warren. Much better than Sandy, or Hospital.
Warren
Thanks, but I still donāt know why my parents named me Warren. I only know I am related to a Mary Wright who came from a Chapel Hill in Scotland.
Me Motherās side was German from the Black Forest. Bohemians, me thinks.
BTW. Iām a school librarian.(think staunch supporter of freedoms/defended of civil rights) Itās my job to find these things.
hereās an old video of Taipei from the 1950s.
It includes scenes from Lesheng sanitorium
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[quote=āhannesā]Here are some great ones
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/chaotang/16654836[/quote]
great pictures from Taichung and central Taiwan.
itās amazing how many people were in Fengyuan back then. Today the streets are usually emptyā¦
c-130hercules.net/gallery/sh ā¦ serid=4532
Great album of old pictures of Taichung. Yeah, not Taipei, but I think it fits well here. Judging by the movie (007 Thunderball, one of them Sean Connery ones), the pictures were taken around 1965~1966.
Tom Johns old pictures of Taiwan, this time with analysis of where the shots were taken (but in Chinese)
tw.myblog.yahoo.com/fongchulin/article?mid=988
[quote=āhansiouxā]Tony Johns old pictures of Taiwan, this time with analysis of where the shots were taken (but in Chinese)
tw.myblog.yahoo.com/fongchulin/article?mid=988[/quote]
Some great shots in there.
Awesome. These are the greatest old photos of Taiwan Iāve seen. Sadly, Tom Jones made his personal flickr private after the comments on literally nearly every photo devolved into mudslinging (in Chinese) and ideological warfare of āJapan was betterā āno the KMT was better.ā This is only a portion of them.
I did a little project trying to trace some of these photos and take their modern equivalent, but was only able to take one good comparison shot and one pretty bad one. I was working entirely on my own, though, so with these comments I may be able to do a few more.
[quote=āHokwongweiā]Awesome. These are the greatest old photos of Taiwan Iāve seen. Sadly, Tom Jones made his personal flickr private after the comments on literally nearly every photo devolved into mudslinging (in Chinese) and ideological warfare of āJapan was betterā āno the KMT was better.ā This is only a portion of them.
I did a little project trying to trace some of these photos and take their modern equivalent, but was only able to take one good comparison shot and one pretty bad one. I was working entirely on my own, though, so with these comments I may be able to do a few more.
blog.rti.org.tw/english/2013/02/ ā¦ -the-past/[/quote]
That is just awesome work! hopefully you will make more of these before and after photos and share with us
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Iāve been pretty busy and no longer have a scooter, which means any photo missions would take me a lot longer to accomplish on foot/pedal/bus.
But yeah, Iāve been planning to do more for a long time. If you see any locations in there you can identify with certainty, it would be a help.
from what I can tell, this aerial shot
is equivalent of this position on google maps:
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%E4% ā¦ sz=16&z=15
I donāt have access to google earth, but I think we can find a good fit from it.
The same goes for this aerial shot
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%E6% ā¦ sz=15&z=15
Beautiful Taipei Bridgeā¦ well, used to beā¦
maps.google.com/maps?q=25%C2%B0 ā¦ g=ptk&z=16
According to the blog, this is in front of āHeadquarters Support Activity, Taipeiā. If thatās true, then itās ę²å
µåø令éØ today.
maps.google.com/maps?q=%E5%8F%B ā¦ AE%B5&z=17
If it is actually another location called Club 63 (å äøäæ±ęØéØ ), then it became čÆå¤č»å®äæ±ęØéØ and now itās a giant grassy park across the street from Taipei Fine Arts museum (the two places are close by).
taipeisignalarmy.blogspot.tw/201 ā¦ aiwan.html
maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%B8%A ā¦ A1%97&z=18
Based on memory, i remember seeing old pictures featuring the domed building in this picture.
After looking at this blog, I am pretty sure this is where it is:
linchunsheng.blogspot.tw/2012/02/blog-post.html
linchunsheng.blogspot.tw/2012/02 ā¦ st_17.html
Itās just taken from the opposite direction. Thanks to that blog, now we have pictures of that place from the Japanese era to the 1950s and probably 1960-1970s (judging from the VW vans)
The domed building is like 赤åøē¤¦ę„ę Ŗå¼ęē¤¾.
While I am not exactly certain where it is today, I am guessing that the photo is taken from across the street from the old Taiwan Train station.
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%E9% ā¦ via=1&z=18
The rest is for another dayā¦
by the way, all this reminded me of doing this picture for the Japanese architecture thread forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopi ā¦ 8&t=123062:
[quote=āhansiouxā]
The same goes for this aerial shot
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%E6% ā¦ sz=15&z=15[/quote]
I think itās this area: goo.gl/maps/FV8jF
Iām pretty sure there was a bend there before they straightened it some years ago. Canāt find an old map right now.
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The domed building is like 赤åøē¤¦ę„ę Ŗå¼ęē¤¾.
While I am not exactly certain where it is today, I am guessing that the photo is taken from across the street from the old Taiwan Train station.
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%E9% ā¦ via=1&z=18[/quote]
I think it might be the area where the new train station is and to the west of it. Or was there a station between the time of the oldest one on the corner of Yenping, and where it is now?
[quote=āTempo Gainā][quote=āhansiouxā]
The same goes for this aerial shot
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%E6% ā¦ sz=15&z=15[/quote]
I think itās this area: goo.gl/maps/FV8jF
Iām pretty sure there was a bend there before they straightened it some years ago. Canāt find an old map right now.
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blog.yam.com/adingphoto/article/51336971
hereās a site of the old river map (really old, before the airport was even built by the Japanese).
I was guessing the location of this pic basing on the orientation of the airport. Obviously theyāve extended the runway probably after the 80s, but the original outline and layout of the airport seems to be intact, so I figured it might be from that direction.
and as for the domed building, all I can say is Taipei city center used to be a lot prettierā¦
Between those very early images, where everything is green and rural, and those images of today, where everything is modern and clean, there must have been a time where Taipei was one large construction side, a dirty, grim kind of place.