It’s from October 2011; the apartment building hasn’t changed much since then. The only thing different from the outside is that the landlord hadn’t installed my new CAC unit yet. The trees in front are bushier than they are now, but that’s a seasonal thing. The graffiti tags on the front wall are a bit different, too.
The shop around the corner is still a grocery store, instead of the real estate agency it is now.
There’s a guy on a bicycle with a kiddie seat (but no kid) across the street, standing and talking on the phone; further down the road, there’s a white Hyundai at the curb with the hood up, and a taxi parked right in front of it with its trunk open. I think the cab driver is helping Hyundai guy with his engine, but I can’t be sure.
Once a year every summer, there’s a gathering of the guys I had a band with in college at one of the member’s home in New York State. His place is in the middle of nowhere, and we set up all our gear in a barn on his property and jam and record. There are no neighbors within a mile or more, so we get very loud…it’s all very Neil Young/Ragged Glory!
One of the other members comes to my house the night before, and we load the gear in his van the next morning and depart. The Google street view crew came by at the very moment in 2011 that my friend’s van was parked in my driveway and we were in the process of loading it.
As this only happens one day out of the year, we both got a big kick out of it when I discovered this a couple of weeks ago.
August 2011. Fortunately it appears to be the day after the lawn was mowed* and not on rubbish pick-up day. The previous street view showed the empty barrels still at the end of the driveway Both this one and the last one I was home (car in driveway.) Looking at the pic makes me love my house even more:)
Mine was just added earlier this month, with a date to match. Only thing is it shows only our daughter’s car in the driveway, and she is very rarely at our house when we aren’t there. But the year is easily verified by us with the absence of a tree that died last year and we had to bring it down.
It shows a big old empty trash can on its side. Apparently the camera rolled by right behind the garbage truck. Otherwise, it looks like home and judging by the trim of the shrubs, the photo is about 2 months old.
I was about to post that there isn’t one because they don’t come down my side street but I just looked and that’s changed. It shows a clear view with my home centered in the view. It’s labeled August 2012. My car is not parked anywhere on the block. That and the low number of any cars parked tells me that it was probably during a work day.
If I had been standing in my doorway, you’d be able to see me waving. I think it is a couple of years old, judging by the cars in the parking lot, one of which belongs to a neighbor who moved nearly two yeas ago.
Every house I’ve ever lived in (that still exists) in the USA and Canada is depicted fairly well, as are the two houses I lived in in Chile, althogh one of those is just identifiable in the background.
Mine is from May, 2012. It shows my van parked on the street, and my husband standing in the garage door. I think he just got done seal coating the driveway.
I could place the time pretty closely based on the view alone. It was in a brief window shortly after we’d moved in, after I’d had 2 oaks cut down and then 4 more planted but before they’d subsequently ground down the old stumps.
The grass is freshly cut but the paper is still in the yard, suggesting it was early on a Saturday or Sunday morning.
This is great for seeing just how much some of the trees and shrubs have grown since we bought the place, way more than I’d realized.
A Google map view I’d seen a couple of years ago had a previous view from before we moved in. From it I learned that the seasonal brown patch that was hitting our yard affected the exact same places and geometry every single year. I was glad to know it was nothing I’d done to initiate it.
Ha, same here. Mine was taken in 2011, but it would look exactly the same today. Scooting down the street a few houses confirmed for me that I’m not losing my mind; my neighbors about 5 houses down did have a large tree in their front yard that they’ve recently cut down.
The view of my building shows it before the management had a new intercom system installed; otherwise it looks pretty much the same as it does today.
In the street view of my parents’ house, the only car in the driveway is mine, which means it must have been taken on one of a couple of weekends when I looked after the house while they were away.
The earliest images of our street is 2007. Four blocks up from us is what I called The Addams Family’s Summer Home: carport full of junk, badly groomed front yard, weird ornaments on the fence, and a flagpole from which hangs a Jolly Roger.
Open 2009 and the carport is partly cleared out, the front yard is well groomed with a water feature, and the Jolly Roger is gone from the flagpole.
Open 2012 and the carport is totally bare, the pine tree that was taller than the house has been removed from the front yard, as have all the weird ornaments. Jolly Roger still gone.
Both this one and the last one I was home (car in driveway.) Looking at the pic makes me love my house even more:)