One more unidentified pic identified

The pic itself is mundane, an old police photograph with a bit of noir. It's listed on the Historic Houses site as "unknown". Not for long.

That sign down the back says, "Building Publishing Cy. Entrance 20L*". Search that name in Trove and it comes back with a business in the 1940s and 50s at 20 Loftus Street. (btw, I'm sure that's a cat in the gutter.)

Whip around the back lanes on Google Street View today, and we get a match -

The building on the left is the same in both pictures.

It's often not so hard to identify pics, so long as there are clues to cross-reference. Though I do have some pics that have me absolutely stumped. More about them in the future.

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Welcome, this site is all about Sydney 'then and now'..

The pics: Do click to enlarge the old photos as I've restored most of them from their faded small originals, and the details you'll often see in them can give an awesome insight into how ordinary people, your and my ancestors, actually lived.

Then: Where nothing today remains of a 'Then' scene, the Google Street Views of the 'Now' location have been verified through old maps and the NSW government's SIXMaps.

Sources: Most of the old photos have been collected over many years through the now-defunct Picture Australia and the original sources lost, but almost all are now found through Trove; variously from the National Library, the State Libraries of NSW and Vic, and the National Archives. Some are also via Flickr, so if you know the source of any, do let me know and I will add the credit.

Me: I'm Ross, a major oldsydneyphile (that's a word, really - well, now it is anyway). I grew up here from the 60s. Originally, I made the site in 2006-2008, and restarted it in 2018 using the 'now' scenes supplied by Google Street View.

One more unidentified pic identified

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