{"id":13448,"date":"2015-12-18T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=13448"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:31:09","slug":"jersey-city-1983-and-2015-dramatic-changes-and-comparisons-in-time-and-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jersey-city-1983-and-2015-dramatic-changes-and-comparisons-in-time-and-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City 1983 and 2015, Dramatic Changes and Comparisons in Time and Place."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Then and Now, I think.<\/p>\n

Back in 1983, I was fascinated by the Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s waterfront operations in Jersey City, especially at Exchange Place.<\/p>\n

On a family trip, we spent an hour or so\u00a0exploring the decay around Jersey City so that I could make photos that I\u2019d ultimately planned to use to build a diorama\/model railroad.<\/p>\n

23 years previously, my father had made photos at the old Exchange Place Terminal. We had difficulties locating anything definable at the site of the once massive station, but made a few photos around the Conrail former PRR yards.<\/p>\n

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In February 1983, my father exposed this view of Conrail locomotives at Jersey City on Kodachrome 64 using his Leica. I made some similar views that are less impressive as stand alone photographs, by proved useful in trying to relocate this place last week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over\u00a0the last year, I\u2019ve taken a few trips through Jersey City on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and found the place totally transformed from my mental images of the place stemming from the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

So, I decided to try to recreate some of our 1983 angles, and \u00a0last week armed with maps and photos in-hand I went exploring.<\/p>\n

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This USGS topo map shows the way Jersey City would have been c1950. I’ve placed a blue arrow to show my photo location. (Manhattan Island is located at the far right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When a cityscape changes beyond recognition, it can be\u00a0difficult to produce practical \u2018now and then images.<\/p>\n

These photos\u00a0are part my work in progress.<\/p>\n

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I made some cheap copies of the 1983 photos and started exploring Jersey City. While I’d expected to find the 1983 site covered with modern development, I was surprise that the nearest location of our locomotive photo remained undeveloped, albeit surrounded by modern buildings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Is this the exact spot where we made our photos in 1983? I’m not sure, but when\u00a0I climbed up the embankment it seemed very familiar, although the setting has been transformed. Sorry, no vintage EMD NW2 switchers in December 2015! Exposed with my Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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(for those viewing via Facebook or other sites, you’ll need to click the link to Tracking the Light for the full effect.) Then and Now, I think. Back in 1983, I was fascinated by the Pennsylvania Railroad\u2019s waterfront operations in Jersey City, especially at Exchange Place. On a family trip, we spent an hour or … Continue reading Jersey City 1983 and 2015, Dramatic Changes and Comparisons in Time and Place.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,53,7535,3167,3168,3169,3170],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Conrail_9212_and_7546_at_Exchange_Place_Jersey_City_NY_Feb1983\u00a9Brian_Solomon_664473.jpg?fit=1783%2C1122","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3uU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13473,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13448\/revisions\/13473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}