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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 2008
Lucas Ford, September 2008

Greenport Harbor Brewing, October 2012 (former site of Lucas Ford)
Greenport Harbor Brewing, October 2012 (former site of Lucas Ford)

Hyatt Place East End, September 2008
Hyatt Place East End, September 2008

Hyatt Place East End, October 2012
Hyatt Place East End, October 2012

Angels Country Store, September 2008
Angels Country Store, September 2008

Fork and Anchor, October 2013
Fork and Anchor, October 2013

All Star September 2008
The All-Star, September 2008

The All-Star, August 2009
The All-Star, August 2009

All Star September 2013
The All-Star, September 2013

Suffolk Theater, August 2009
Suffolk Theater, August 2009

Suffolk Theater, August 2012
Suffolk Theater, August 2012

The Riverhead Project, September 2008
The Riverhead Project, September 2008

The Riverhead Project, October 2012
The Riverhead Project, October 2012

What is now Kontokosta Winery, August 2008
What is now Kontokosta Winery, August 2008

Kontokosta Winery, September 2013
Kontokosta Winery, September 2013

 

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