Friday, August 05, 2005

New for Old

While googling around for the old Budapest pics in the last post I came across a fantastic site that matches up new and old Budapest. If you know or remember the streets of Bp, then it's a must-see site.

It concentrates on forgotten tram routes but it looks like they ran everywhere. Click here then scroll down and click on a street you know. For example, try Bajcsy to see the 49 tram rolling down the street (today it only runs from Deák Ferenc tér).

1 Comments:

At 8:51 AM, Blogger Timbo said...

Great pics. In addition to your comments ...

#1 is the corner of Bajcsy and Andrassy. Most of these buildings look exactly the same as now. Missing a metro stop though and that building on the left now houses a used book shop.

#7 is definitely Oktogon in my mind. The metro stop's in the right place and the building at the very left of the pic is now the Burger King.

#8 is the Vig szinhaz on Szt Isvan krt. Again, looks the same as now but missing all the buildings looming over it from behind.

Excellent stuff.

 

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