Vintage aerial photos

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For those of you that grew up in rural areas, I just thought this was cool.

I found the farm I grew up on within minutes.

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1981 *edited out watermark

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uk125250 3/31/2016 7:27am
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That's cool! I went to my county and it says they aren't done yet. It says it has some from the 80s, but won't let me go to them.
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uk125250 wrote:
That's cool! I went to my county and it says they aren't done yet. It says it has some from the 80s, but won't let me...
That's cool! I went to my county and it says they aren't done yet. It says it has some from the 80s, but won't let me go to them.
I got the same thing when I first tried a few months ago. I found the 76' photo thismorning.
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I took a look at North Dakota for my grandparents farms but nothing is available yet for that area but I did find a scan of an old photo on my hard drive from 1950.

My grandfather built the house sometime in the early 1940's if I remember right. There was no electric in that part of the county when they built it but he pre-wired everything and then had to wait a couple of years until power reached him. From stories Gramps told me he dug the basement with a pull type scraper powered by mules and cut every piece of the houses framing with a hand saw. Old timers were gnarly doing all that work before power tools were available and without excavating equipment.



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DownSouth wrote:
I took a look at North Dakota for my grandparents farms but nothing is available yet for that area but I did find a scan of...
I took a look at North Dakota for my grandparents farms but nothing is available yet for that area but I did find a scan of an old photo on my hard drive from 1950.

My grandfather built the house sometime in the early 1940's if I remember right. There was no electric in that part of the county when they built it but he pre-wired everything and then had to wait a couple of years until power reached him. From stories Gramps told me he dug the basement with a pull type scraper powered by mules and cut every piece of the houses framing with a hand saw. Old timers were gnarly doing all that work before power tools were available and without excavating equipment.



Gnarly seem like an understatement to those early farmers in North Dakota, True survivors, what a hearty bunch of strong willed people they must have been.

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AHRMA361 4/1/2016 6:01am
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That's a cool site.
Found the old farm in Ohio that I lived on in the 70's. The house was like something you would see in the wild west. It was a bunkhouse basically with a porch the entire length of the building.
The large building is a horse arena and stalls. We trained and boarded many horses. I pitchforked a lot of horse poo in that place...I flat tracked my mini bike in the arena when my Dad wasn't around.



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MR. X 4/1/2016 6:33am
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They're not finished with my area ,it did get me in the mood to look up some old aerial photos on google search and I found alot of pictures of the old wurlitzer plant that we grew up playing in and around.

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