Latrobe PA - then and now

DISCLAIMER: these photos (i took) were not taken in the exact spot as the originals (done another member of the group) due to time constraints and a chaotic work schedule. But if you love Latrobe past and present, This is for you.

Remember the Miller hotel? Sun Drug? The Armory? The old Radioshack? or perhaps the 2nd ward school?

The video took 2 hours to make, 1 hour of photography, a total of 3 hours work. As soon as i got off work at 8am I took 1 hour of photography, 2 hours to make the video and stayed up until 12pm to share this with you all.

[RobertObstarczyk]

I really enjoyed this look at Latrobe then and now. A very pleasant memory for me. Latrobe was the best place to grow up in and it will always be home to me.

[PantherP]

Great video and all, but having the "now" shots COMPLETELY different from the "then" shots is disorienting.  Would it be so hard to take the same picture?

[malicemike]

That yellow apartment building got all the bed bugs

[myronbadstibner]

Great job.  Would like to have seen the old theaters, the 'Grand', 'Manos', and 'Olympic'.  

[Eittap]

The perspectives should have been exactly the same.

[jaf]

Nice collogue. I was glad to see that you included a photo of Doc Strickler's Drug Store. But you should have given some of the history behind it...without Googling it, most people don't know that Latrobe, PA is the Birthplace of the Banana Split.

[stonedyouri]

Bro please do this again. I’ve grown up here for 16 years and it’s so cool to see all the places the way they used to be when I was little and then seeing it befor my time. It would be cool if u could do it agin if your still in Latrobe.

[joelcribbs]

Born and raised here. I don't remember it being so depressing.

[dennislaux]

Some of it are good changes and others, I wish it was the same as the old days. New isn't always better. I miss Mr. Player already. He was the old days and I wish the world was like him.

[Diggidoo]

The first photo damn there was barely any buildings i didn't know so many buildings were missing because i'm only 13

[nicholasmolitor]

@edenorchestra, that was the idea.. The "funeral" theme as you dub it, was purposed to be aboutthe death of the old Latrobe and the funeral or eulogy of Latrobes once vibrant past.

[lisal]

Enjoyed your Latrobe video.  Can anyone by any chance give me the address of the old Miller Hotel?

[richseliga]

Memories, yes the "then" and "now" is a bit difficult to follow but hey, I've followed much worse. thank you irontusk341

[schwarzekatzen]

I wonder if that yellow building was just as greasy in the past as it is now

[stuanderson]

Doing some research on a radio and furniture company named G.M. Fingik & Co. in Latrobe. If anyone has any information on this company? google has led us to believe it might have become Weiss furniture in 1924 but this is only a bit of speculation, thanks

[ROROSMACHINE]

So sad, all those thriving little shops and business wouldn't be able to survive the cost of ownership today, with the high local taxes and peripheral expenses, everybodys got their hand out wanting with some license fee or charge....A lot of these will eventually be mowed down for section 8 housing for people that don't work and have lots of babys that the rest of us get to fund..

[ParadiseProjectsGroup]

Nice idea, but boy the pace, words "then and now" way over done, way too many and the music sounds like a funeral.