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Columbus Before Highways: 1950 Aerial Photographs Unveiled
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Take a look at downtown Columbus in the 1950 before the construction of two highways.
Angela O’Neal of the Columbus Metropolitan Library shares 1950 aerial photographs of Columbus, featuring landmarks like the LeVeque Tower, Central High School (now COSI), and the Ohio Statehouse. These images capture the city’s landscape before I-70 and I-71 were built, highlighting the architectural beauty and historical significance of these buildings.
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Columbus Neighborhoods is a local public television program presented by WOSU
Columbus Neighborhoods
Columbus Before Highways: 1950 Aerial Photographs Unveiled
Special | 1m 48sVideo has Closed Captions
Angela O’Neal of the Columbus Metropolitan Library shares 1950 aerial photographs of Columbus, featuring landmarks like the LeVeque Tower, Central High School (now COSI), and the Ohio Statehouse. These images capture the city’s landscape before I-70 and I-71 were built, highlighting the architectural beauty and historical significance of these buildings.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> We're looking at an aerial of downtown Columbus that was taken on July 14th, 1950.
This photograph tells us a lot about the city.
Here we've got Lavec Tower here along the riverfront.
We've got the statehouse right in the center, and then Third and Fourth streets coming along the left side.
If you look further back into the photograph, you see the peninsula that's now Scioto Audubon Metro Park.
At this point, it was the Lazarus warehouse down there.
This photo is also really important for what we don't see in it.
In this photograph, the highways had not come through yet, so 70 and 71 are going to come right along through here.
They're going to split downtown from the German Village neighborhood, which brings a lot of change to the city.
It's also really important to help us answer questions about car culture in Columbus.
You see there aren't many parking lots in this photo, just maybe a couple down here in 1950.
And what we'll see between 1950 and 1970 is just a huge need for parking in the center of the city.
So you're gonna see a lot of these buildings in here get tore down to build more parking spaces for folks in the city of Columbus between 1950 and 1970.
So this not only helps us understand the growth and development of the city, but the changes that happened during this time as well.
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