Friday, May 3, 2013

Airphotos of Åkarp, 1961 vs 1975

Ok, I am becoming an Åkarp postcards collector and it is becoming inevitable that right now, I am mostly speaking about postcards, than renovation, since at least the works are on hold for some long while.

The latest purchase has been an air-photo from 1961 which takes the same shot as one that I previously bought (and posted here), from 1975, instead.
Although our house is almost invisible - a little bunch of pixel in the ocean of houses, it is interesting to notice the differences between the two postcards.
Above, air photo from 1975, below, air photo from 1961
Lundavägen seems bending just after Möllegården, towards Malmö, in the 1975 picture. Hvilan Fölkhögskolan has a different color and a nice external stair on the rightest building. If the heart of Gamla Åkarp looks more and less the same, around it there is a huge bunch of houses that in the pictures from 1961 is not there. It is visible in the top part of the postcard.
Otherwise, in 14 years, it doesn't seem that there has been a big change.
Maybe Villa Hemmet looks different - but it is hard to say from the black and white photo from 1961.
For what concerns our house, Villa Bellevue looks quite well covered by the same amount of trees... :)

2 comments:

  1. Nice! It must have been extremely heavy traffic on Lundavägen before Autostradan was ready in 1953. Do you have any photo showing that?

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  2. I guess the next postcard will be about that ;-) Unfortunately, I don't have one yet!
    However, I do not think there was that much traffic in those days...!

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