Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

I guess the geneticists weren’t happy with the Andean breed and wanted something bigger.

You had a chance to answer one of life’s oldest question and you just kept driving?

Tsk-tsk…

Here’s a side-by-side comparison of San Francisco neighborhoods and landmarks from a low-level aerial photo survey from 1938 and Google Earth in 2012 at roughly the same scale.

It took me about 4 days to create and you’re welcome to share it as you may.

The 1938 photos are from an aerial survey book that map maven David Rumsey scanned and assembled as a highly detailed and zoomable map:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/974mtn

Cheap thrills for the acrophobic:

Supposing I was to tell you that it’s just Beauty that’s calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East which lures me in the books I’ve read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on — in quest of the secret which is hidden over there, beyond the horizon?

~ Eugene O’Neill

This sold on ebay over a year ago but I saved the images. I’m gathering images from FB so I can delete my page. I’ll be doing more transfers soon.