Showing posts with label aerial views. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aerial views. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Aerial Photos

Before the invention of the airplane, someone wanting a "birdseye" view of the village had to climb to the top of a nearby hill and hope for an open view. We have posted some of these birdseye views in prior post. After planes became available, it was easier to get a real birdseye or aerial view. Here are some we have found. 

Above- This was taken in 1938, just after the school had been completed. 


 Above- We are likely to date this one around 1947. The new concrete highway is being poured on the straightened Rochester Street. 



Above and Below- These two are very close in date, yet the one below shows work on the new firehouse and village offices.If memory serves me, a aerial was used as the inside cover of one of the yearbooks.



 Above- Bill Hecht sent along this one from 2005. 

Above- And from way up high in 1938, a crop of a high attitude military photo.