Show your city skyline from the year you were born

[destroycreate]

Born in 1987.

San Diego mid 1980s:


https://www.portofsandiego.org/image...t/52-1980s.jpg

San Diego today (so much better):


http://medias.photodeck.com/c28495c2...oto-3_uxga.jpg



http://www.seaportvillage.com/upload...l.original.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Paris La Défense 1990

The majority of the buildings above 150m (approx 500 ft) were not yet built.


View of Paris from the Arch of Triumph by Mark Rose, sur Flickr


View of Palais de Chaillot from the Eiffel Tower by Mark Rose, sur Flickr


1991 (almost no change compared with 1990)


Jean Michel Jarre did a large concert in La Defense (using the skyscrapers as projection surface) for Bastille day 1990, it is just few weeks after my birth.
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[ToysNoiz]

Dead thread but whatever.

Salt Lake City 1990's

[Urban Zombie]

Portland 1979 (a technicality, as I was actually born across the river in Vancouver, WA):




Shanghai circa 1979:

[CaliNative]

Like something out of a Hopper painting, a 1952 view of magnificent Richfield Oil Tower (built 1928), sadly torn down in 1969 to make way for ARCO twins:

http://www.martinturnbull.com/wp-con...uilding-10.jpg

A far sighted developer should build a new version (mixed use) of this tower (or something similar) somewhere in DTLA (on Pershing Square or Broadway?), but much taller--75-90 stories? An "Art Deco Revival" masterpiece, 950 feet tall plus a 300 foot spire on top--total height 1250', same as Empire State Building. The old height laws kept the building proper at 150 feet, although the decorative crown and "oil derrick"spire took the building to over 350'--second in height to City Hall. On clear nights the illuminated spire was visible for many miles. The crown and "airship mooring mast" spire of the Empire State Building (built in 1929-31) was said by some to have been inspired by the Richfield tower. Similar shape.