It was totally by chance. I had to crop and edit to get the images close.
Keep in mind that my dad started taking color slides in 1942, I have had many of his slides and mine digitized. We started numbering them and I got over 10K for him and I think I got up to 8K for me of ones I can find. Once I started on Then and Now I did quite a lot of them, but when I posted that one I realized that I had not finished looking for other matches in St Pete/Leningrad. I will get to that later because there are some more matches.
Sometimes I know that I will be going to a place where my dad has taken photos (or where I have taken photos) and in that case, I print the photos out so I can try to duplicate them, but in other cases I am not so lucky. I did a riverboat cruise in 2016 to see the tulips in the Netherlands and Belgium. I printed out some of Dad's photos from a trip we made in 1950 when I was 12. I was by this time using a mobility scooter.
April 24
For Antwerp I picked the Ruben's house tour because I had photos of Daddy's from there
Stained glass detail from 1950
and I wanted to see the zoo and the Central RR station, because I had photos from those to places also.
This was a walking tour from the river where the boat was docked. It was rainy, windy and cold. The guide said that I could take the scooter in to the studio part (which was very big - they had the big pictures there and could take them out with a crane) and into the garden but I could not take it into the house itself. This was not a surprise so I was not unbearably disappointed. So we went into the studio. There was a ramp into the studio and I went down faster than either of us would have thought was reasonable (it was steep and the scooter has no brakes, so I basically slid down almost into the wall at the end). By this time my back was painful and I felt a bit nauseated. We sat on benches while the guide explained Rubens paintings. Then we went into the garden and I was able to get a photo of the statues that Daddy had a photo of
Then (1950) and Now (2016)
After the garden the guide continued the walking tour. I really wanted to go back to the ship. But we were apparently in a pedestrian area and even on the street the taxis have to be called or picked up in a taxi stand - you can't hail them in the street. They took us to a taxi stand and left us but there were no taxis there. So after five minutes or so, We went to a cafe (which was not really open but there was a fire there in the fireplace) and asked a lady to call us a cab, which she did.
When the cab came, he didn't speak much English, but as long as I had got to a warm place where I could sit comfortably, I decided to see if I could get a photo of the Central RR station. I showed him the photos and he was entranced and asked if he could take a photo of them with his phone. He took very seriously getting to the place where the photos were taken and he also tried to show me some of Antwerp
Central RR station
1950 on the left
Closer and this time 1950 on the right
When we got back to the boat I gave him the prints so he didn't have to take a photo with his cell phone. I do have the originals after all.