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Does anyone else ever do this? Sometimes when I'm going through Linn's or the APS journal there will be a cover pictured from many years ago (sometime 19th century). with the address shown. I'll go to Google and look up the address because I'm curious to see what's at the address at present. Now that I've typed it out I'm pretty convinced that I am indeed strange/weird.
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I'm pretty convinced that I am indeed strange/weird. You are just unique, we all are, and that's OK. Enjoy the world of diversity. |
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I look up addresses of places I was familiar with at ages 5 - 25 years. It can be strange and scarey. |
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I think you're good as long as you don't get a whim to visit the address in a bathrobe. |
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| Edited by Teaus - 01/30/2021 9:34 pm |
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Although as a caveat, streets do get renumbered on occasion, thus not an exact science. To truly confirm, it would take a contemporary vintage reference like a city directory.
And it's not just old covers. I am aware of a very main street near me which had portions renumbered c1950, shifting numbers by as much as 300 as businesses developed among the residences. |
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Guilty! But my wife thinks I'm wierd for being a postal history collector to begin with...so there is nothing new here.  |
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| Edited by Hal - 01/30/2021 11:57 pm |
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I do this all the time when I run across a town I'm not familiar with. But I also collect antique maps, so to be expected I guess. |
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I once looked up a town on a censored cover, and it got me into a whole new collecting interest. One never knows where the pursuit of knowledge will lead. |
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What I think is cool is typing in an address of someplace I saw in the news and going to Google maps and when possible go to the street view or satellite view. Then I'll cruise around on a little drive. I've been all over the world. (Well, virtually anyway.) |
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Landscapes change and streets move; that is what I was referring to when I said it can be "strange and scarey." |
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I do it frequently for what are obviously residential addresses. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. My wife has no idea I do this and wouldn't care if she did know.
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Guilty as well. Sometimes whey you research the person, you can discover an interesting history behind the cover. I found a tiny cover with a birthday party invitation sent to an 11-yesr-old boy in Texas. After researching the addressee, I found a fascinating (to me anyway) story about the boy. It's about halfway down the page at https://goscf.com/t/20916&whichpage=4Scott |
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Posted 01/30/2021 7:21 pm
