Internet Resources

[Cormac]

I can actually see my two current favorite dig spots with bing.
Excelent detail... I can almost count paces.

My New Orleans spot is very visible...and..

Hey... a non-grassy spot... as someone been digging in NY without telling anyone?

[forest_blight]

Google Earth has improved their service by offering historical imagery. Here's an example of how it can be used. If you open (and update) Google Earth, go to the Children's Zoo in Houston. Zoom in on the lake. Then click on the little clock icon at the top. Scale it back to 1995 or 1978 and see how much the lake had changed by 2002. Perhaps this will be useful in seeing how much some of our favorite locations have changed since 1981-ish.

[Jambone]

Wow, that's really cool!  Thanks for sharing this!

[animal painter]

I just noticed that Google Street View offers 3-D viewing! 
(Too bad I don't see in 3-D )

[forest_blight]

This should be interesting:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2709492/Google-Maps-wins-access-Liberty-Island-tour-without-leaving-chair.html

[tjgrey]

Just saw this thread...Here are a few that I use for searching (mostly) the Charleston area:


Lowcountry Digital Library:
http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/

Library of Congress Picture Search:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

USC Pine Tree Search:
http://herbarium.biol.sc.edu/pines.html

Historic American Buildings Search:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/

USC University PHotograph Collection:
http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/landingpa ... ion/wpaplp

[Egbert]

An App just came out, which shows many locations from long ago. I have not downloaded it, but if someone wants to check it out:

http://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/scenepast-americana-road-trip-app-takes-users-through-20th-century-america

[four21thrasher]

Due to the high-quality aerials and many historical choices, this site is very helpful for viewing NYC: http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/

[forest_blight]

I found a 5-page ad for "The Secret" in National Lampoon, the December 1982 issue. It is not that informative regarding the casques, but interesting in that we can see color versions of some of the fair folk:

http://kspot.org/trove/national_lampoon_dec1982.pdf

[wk]

Some new hi-res of two of our locations. You can even see the tyre marks here:
http://goo.gl/maps/rij0R

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2871562/Google-Maps-3D-goes-super-hi-res-Stunning-multi-dimensional-views-New-York-San-Francisco-unveiled.html

Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

[Egbert]

Google just released new time-lapsed streaming images of earth from 1984 to the present. It is an interactive map, so you can zoom in on any location on earth.

http://time.com/timelapse2016/

[forest_blight]

I looked through all the old forum threads, and this seems like the best place for what I want to do -- create a repository for all known newspaper/magazine clippings related directly to The Secret. I will also post the citation for each one, so that future searches can find these with no problem. Some of these have been posted before, in this or that thread, but some are new. If I miss any that have been previously posted please let me know where to find them and I will add them to this thread.

First, the Cleveland Plain Dealer of June 13, 2004 -- the article celebrating Egbert's and Siskel's triumphant find in Cleveland (scanning credits to Egbert, I think)...

[forest_blight]

From Book Magazine (date unknown):

[forest_blight]

From The Chicago Tribune, November 16, 1982:

[forest_blight]

From The Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1983: