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A Google satellite image of the North Fork.
I still remember that strange feeling I had the first time I ever saw my childhood home on Google Earth. How did they do that? A UFO?
Then Google rolled out the street view featured on it’s maps. To this day, it’s the single biggest motivating factor for me mowing my lawn and not getting the newspaper in Tony Soprano morningwear.
Now Google has something even cooler for us to waste time with, a timeline that allows you to scroll through Google Earth and Street View images as they were captured over the years.
The Earth feature allows you to scroll to as far back as 1994. In Street View, you can fire up the DeLorean to 2008.
Check the street view option out for yourself by clicking here and entering your address of choice.
Experimenting with the feature this week, I assembled a collection of Google Street View photos from seven recognizable North Fork properties that have undergone physical transformations in recent years.
Here they are.
Lucas Ford, September 2008Greenport Harbor Brewing, October 2012 (former site of Lucas Ford)Hyatt Place East End, September 2008Hyatt Place East End, October 2012Angels Country Store, September 2008Fork and Anchor, October 2013The All-Star, September 2008The All-Star, August 2009The All-Star, September 2013Suffolk Theater, August 2009Suffolk Theater, August 2012The Riverhead Project, September 2008The Riverhead Project, October 2012What is now Kontokosta Winery, August 2008Kontokosta Winery, September 2013
Grant Parpan is the content director for Times Review Partners, a division of Times Review Media Group in Mattituck.
Grant joined the Times Review staff in 2006 as a reporter and has covered nearly every beat in the newsroom.
He currently writes about lifestyle and business content, including writing about the North Fork food, wine and arts scenes for northforker.com.
Grant began his career in 2003 as a reporter and editor at The Signal, a daily newspaper in Santa Clarita, California.
In his career, he has won dozens of awards from the New York Press Association, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association and the Press Club of Long Island.
