Some cool business name search images:
Weymouth, UK
Image by urbanoasis
I'm not much of a digital triumphalist, but I have to acknowledge that what I was just able to do was amazing.
I followed a link on twitter for a D-Day image gallery from the Boston Globe. One of the few color images caught my eye, and I suspect they were shot with the now-discontinued Kodachrome (including the one above).
Using the vague caption information ("U.S. Soldiers march through a southern English coastal town, en route to board landing ships for the invasion of France, circa late May or early June 1944") and the two visible business names (The Victoria Hotel and Dorothy Restaurant), I was able to figure out via Google where this probably was -- Weymouth, and more specifically, the Esplanade by the water in Weymouth. Google Street View confirmed this. Then, by searching "Weymouth AND Esplanade" on flickr, I was able to find these two recent images, which I stitched together in Photoshop with roughly the same perspective and position as the original.
This took me all of about 30 minutes -- what should have been weeks of work. Wow.
