Google can lead to ‘sort of’ a backwards time machine
Yes, I journeyed into the past yesterday. My wife came along. We used Google Maps — Street Level view.
For three years in the early 1970s, we lived on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. We were back there to visit for the last time in about 1984, I think it was.
Yesterday, I thought for fun I would search Google Maps for Mission — and I found street level viewing available for the one “main drag” through this little town. My wife was home from work, so she and I gathered around the computer and journeyed up and down, back and forth, through three very formative, eventful years of our lives.
It was like traveling into a past we could see but no longer touch. And, of course, many of the buildings and streets in this small town were changed radically, as they are in most small towns of the “heartland” over any 20-30 year span.
It was great fun, though, and we smiled (and almost cried) at some of the memories brought back.
For tonight: Maybe Denver, to recall an earlier time in my childhood. (Oh, hey — anybody here reading this from Tecumseh, Nebraska? I grew up there until the age of 10; left there in 1957.)
