A 1973 road-survey film became San Diego's accidental Street View (beautifulpublicdata.com)
Jon Keegan pulled 35mm road-survey film of 1973 San Diego off the Internet Archive, color-corrected away the 'grey veil,' and stitched the frames into panoramas of a city its government never meant to make beautiful.
A reader who lives there confirmed the strangest detail: the Les Girls burlesque marquee in the footage is still standing, sign newly replaced this year — and now the subject of a podcast.
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