The following function in the Google Earth program was a discovery for me. Thanks to peshkints from livejournal. It turns out that in order for Google to issue aerial photographs as early as 1938. - you need to move away, fly 20 km over the terrain and move the temporary slider (there is such a button in the menu) for these years. The coverage, of course, is negligible in area, but even on these high-altitude photographs of a part of the terrain, you can see this …
San Francisco today.
San Francisco, filmed in 1938. We see blocks of built houses, but there are also empty blocks, which are covered with sand, moreover, together with roads.
Could it be that the builders built roads, flattening all these neighborhoods, and then these roads were covered with sand during a sandstorm?
Once I watched a documentary film, which described how cottage villages are built in the United States: first, all communications are laid, then roads are built and houses are built on these planned blocks. But…
Promotional video:
One can see either the foundations of some buildings, or their ruins.
Judging by this picture, the quarters were covered with sand for a long time. grass or even bushes have sprouted on the sand.
Remnants of some buildings are also visible here.
This is seen even better here. Link to the map.
Coordinates: 37 ° 44 '12.54 "N 122 ° 30' 15.39" W
Currently, every quarter and every plot is built up
I will not say 100% that the development of new neighborhoods in the United States was based on an ancient city. We need information from the archives that refutes this or clearly says that these quarters were planned then and then, and then all this was brought in by a sandstorm, as in Texas:
Dunes on a farm in Liberal, Kansas.
A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas on April 18, 1935.
Huge piles of sand next to a barn on a farm near Liberal, Kansas.
A farm in Coldwater, north of Dalhart, Texas. Most of the houses in the area were abandoned during dust storms.
A farm abandoned by its owner due to dust storms in Guymon, Oklahoma, March 29, 1937.
And another interesting fact:
The Spanish exploration team, commanded by Gaspar de Portula, arrived on November 2, 1769, the first documented visit to the San Francisco Bay, and the entire coastal area was presented as part of New Spain land. 7 years later, the Spaniards founded the Mission of Saint Francis of Assisi (its other name is Mission Dolores), which was under the cover of a small military fort, on the site of which the Presidio Park is now located. The name of the area Rushen Hill (English Russian Hill - Russian hill), located in the center of San Francisco, appeared during the Gold Rush, when settlers discovered a small burial site at the top of the hill. Despite the fact that the bodies were not identified, the inscriptions in Cyrillic on the gravestones suggested that these were the graves of Russian merchants and sailors,living in Fort Ross.
He is often featured in American films:
The hill is now built up.
Thanks to peshkints, the following place was found in Florida:
An airfield built on the site of three rings. These are channels. When you zoom in, you can see it. Link to the map.
I think that with the help of this function in Google maps of transferring the dates of surface shooting to the past, much more interesting places will be found, at that time not yet touched by civilization.
Author: sibved