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Looking Down on Hicksville
In the New York State Archives Digital Collections, I found this 1951 photograph.
NYS Archives, Aerial photographic prints and negatives of New York State sites, 1941-1957
Image below created by the author, using Google Maps in 3D view
which you can compare to this current view. Although we all know how much the town has changed, I still find it amazing to see so many differences in one pair of pictures - from Old Country Road School in the foreground, to the Expressway in the distance. Many of us grew up on streets that did not even exist when the top photo was taken, back before there were any "Cardboard Hill" sumps down which to slide.
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