Historic Aerials of County Stadium

[Brian the Automator]

Got this in the inbox:

 

Hello Brian,

I'm a huge Brewers Fan. I love your website and check it out daily. I thought you might be interested in my website. I just added 1963 aerial imagery covering Milwaukee. Check out the view of County Stadium on the following link: http://www.historicaerials.com/default.aspx?POI=6172 Also, be sure to try the "Compare Tools" and overlay the 2005 imagery showing Miller Park onto the 1963 imagery.

Best Regards

Brett

[The Mexican Weez]

Cool website, I like the overlays. Looks like they might do some Milwaukee historical overlays. That would be very interesting.

[owbc]

Very interesting. I also enjoyed finding the location of my childhood home in Greenfield, which was in essentially a rural area at this point.

[TheCrew07]

That was actually really cool

[JimH5]

Terrific. An earlier version of Google Earth!

 

And I thought my boyhood home was built in the 1940s, and it wasn't there in 1950. . .That's got me curious now. . .

[phxMILWfan]

Awesome site. Thanks for sharing. Really cool to see County Stadium as well as my old neighborhood in Greenfield.

[dikapalooza]

I've been looking for something like this for a while for Milwaukee County. Cool stuff. For anyone interested, Waukesha County has aerial images every decade going back to about 1941. It's quite interesting to see the development along Bluemound and I94 build up throughout the years (or disappear if you go backwards). You can just barely make out the last remnants of the Waukesha Beach on the south end of Pewaukee Lake. Just go to Waukesha County's website, under Land Information system.

 

edit: also check out the two Nike missile silos that are on the current eastern edge of the City of Waukesha