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#4255218 - 05/02/16 07:41 PM Changes across the years  
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While looking for a pic of our old boat to stick on Weasle Keeper's thread I came across one from 1966 when we were on holiday at San Martinho do Porto in Portugal and it got me thinking about how the place looked now...

So a pretty poor condition slide from August 1966


50 years of change later...

Taken from Google Earth


Apart from the boats being a bit newer it still looks pretty much the same smile


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#4255221 - 05/02/16 07:48 PM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Alicatt]  
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That's something to celebrate. That's one kind of "change" I hate. Great job to those who kept that spot looking like that for 50 years.

What does it look like behind the photo? I'm not familiar with that location though I would love to visit Portugal and Spain one day!


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#4255296 - 05/02/16 11:43 PM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Alicatt]  
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portugal, spain, italy, greece etc. are blessed with very mild tidal action which stops the destruction of beautiful beaches like that. good on them for not letting development destroy the area, but i do wonder as well, what things look like behind the camera that took that photo.

the area i grew up in has been completely wrecked and is unrecognizable. a disaster of chinese invasion, err, immigration.

#4255322 - 05/03/16 01:14 AM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Alicatt]  
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Still looks quite peaceful. They even planted a tree to cover up that menacing wormhole.


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#4255325 - 05/03/16 01:31 AM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Alicatt]  
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Very cool, Alicatt. It took me a few minutes to find that exact tree on Google Earth street view.

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(a little off, select road by nearest tree, across from "Acasa Restaurante".



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#4255327 - 05/03/16 01:36 AM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Alicatt]  
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Kinda sad when you look upon the real change in boat making types, the first photo had just about all
wooden hull boats. Second photo, just about all exclusive fiberglass hulls. I really love the old
wooden Mahagony hull boats.


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#4255329 - 05/03/16 01:44 AM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Alicatt]  
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Hahahaha, the difference in view from then to now is completely different.

Back then people looked further than the smart phone in their hands.


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#4255503 - 05/03/16 04:52 PM Re: Changes across the years [Re: JimK]  
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Originally Posted By: JimK
Kinda sad when you look upon the real change in boat making types, the first photo had just about all
wooden hull boats. Second photo, just about all exclusive fiberglass hulls. I really love the old
wooden Mahagony hull boats.
I thought I had replied to this thread last night must have got distracted.

It's like in Scotland too, a lot of the newer boats are fibreglass, or concrete, even the smaller fishing boats are being made out of steel. Our little boat was mahogany over an oak frame and it seen service for a good few years with us before we sold it on, we used to see her near Ft. William moored in the sea loch and she always looked in good condition. It is a lot of hard work keeping a mahogany boat in shipshape condition and it was one of my tasks every spring to strip the old varnish off and re-varnish her, still a good amount of work even tho she was only 12ft long

Anyway, yes there are big changes behind the camera, it now looks a bit like "any" beachfront in Europe, Still back then it was a busy place and while not packed out there were a lot of people on the beach then.

The pretty young ladies on the beach back then all had an old matron in grey walking a few steps behind them, it really put a damper on chatting them up - mind you I was only 10 then biggrin

I met some American kids that were holidaying there and we went to the local swing park together with my younger brother.

Dad drove down to there, it was about 2000miles or so and we did take detours to go and see other places, I do remember him saying it was over the 2k miles. I can remember stopping at a little roadside pottery in Portugal and the daughter of the potter gave me a little duck she had painted, I still have that little duck to this day smile



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Great memory thanks for sharing. thumbsup


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#4257266 - 05/06/16 11:34 PM Re: Changes across the years [Re: Dart]  
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Originally Posted By: Dart
Hahahaha, the difference in view from then to now is completely different.

Back then people looked further than the smart phone in their hands.

Lol, too true Dart.


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