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Vintage photos showcase downtown Ann Arbor’s historical charm

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ANN ARBOR, MI – Even as downtown Ann Arbor has changed and grown in recent years, much of its old charm remains intact, in part thanks to historic protections.

Vintage photos from The Ann Arbor News archives offer a look back at downtown over the last century, showing many familiar buildings that remain standing today.

Take a scroll through the photos below, and read more about downtown’s modern evolution at mlive.com/a2downtown.

Before-and-after views of downtown Ann Arbor’s dramatic transformation

Ann Arbor’s small-town look fades as downtown reaches toward sky

The high life: Inside Ann Arbor’s newest luxury high-rise apartment

Timeline: Ann Arbor’s downtown housing boom and what’s to come

1960s building boom introduced Ann Arbor to high-rise controversy

Video: Behind Ann Arbor’s downtown development boom

Mapped: Downtown Ann Arbor developments of the past two decades

First snow of the year in November 1937.Ann Arbor News archives courtesy of OldNews.AADL.org

The Van Boven store at Nickels Arcade on State Street in 1939.Ann Arbor News archives courtesy of OldNews.AADL.org

A view from the Burton Memorial Tower looking down Liberty Street in 1938.Ann Arbor News archives courtesy of OldNews.AADL.org

Model airplanes grab the attention of a crowd of boys at

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Fans erupt over vintage photo of TV newsreader Ann Sanders in the ’90s

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By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia

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A previously unseen throwback photo of veteran Channel Seven newsreader Ann Sanders proves she has barely aged a day in decades.

The 63-year-old’s colleague David ‘Kochie’ Koch posted a black and white photo on Instagram of the two journalists posing in a boardroom with TV doctor Dr John D’Arcy and former political editor Dennis Grant.

‘Blast from the 1990s. Going through some old photo albums and this popped up,’ Koch wrote in the caption.

The photo showed Sanders sitting in a chair while Koch, Dr D’Arcy and Grant stood behind him with their arms crossed.

Fans immediately noticed how little Sanders’ appearance has changed since the ’90s, with one commenting: ‘Ann Sanders doesn’t age!’

A previously unseen throwback photo of Channel Seven newsreader Ann Sanders (foreground right, in front of David ‘Kochie’ Koch) proves she has barely aged a day in decades

Fans noticed how little Sanders’ appearance has changed since the ’90s, with one saying: ‘Ann Sanders doesn’t age!’ (Sanders is pictured left in the early 1990s, and right in 2019)

Sanders (seen hosting the afternoon

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Apps to Make Your Photos Look Vintage

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Technology has blessed us with the latest and newly built cameras but nothing compares to the aesthetics of retro and vintage photos. We are always on the hunt to find a good app with realistic effects of vintage vibes.

Although social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat deliver tons of filters with varied effects including ones that can make your pictures come across as retro, the need for an impressive app in this regard is highly in-demand. The appeal of black-and-white filters and grainy images is rapidly increasing, and probably this is why you clicked on this article.

Stress no more, because in this article we are going to walk you through some of the best apps to make your photos look vintage.

So, without much further ado, let’s get started.

1. 1998 Cam

As the name already indicates, the app is designed to cater to people who are fans of the analog film stock from 1998. The pictures you take using this app resemble the time of ’98. It proudly houses more than 100 retro filters including vintage black-and-white, grain, light leak features, dust, and the signature of the time stamp on the filters of Polaroids.

You can download

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Recreating Shanghai of yesteryear with vintage portrait photos

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Shot by Hu Jun. Edited by Hu Jun. Subtitles by Yang Yang.

The former Renmin Photo Studio, now the Shanghai New People’s Photography Company, offers the opportunity to recreate vintage photos in the 1940s Shanghai style.

Although the cameras have changed, the traditions of studio photography in Shanghai continue, but most of the state-owned photo studios have been closed or privatized. Shanghai New People is the only state-owned photo studio still operating in the city.

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Fiona Li takes a photo at the former Renmin Photo Studio.

During the 1950s, the photo studio was popular with local celebrities such as film stars Bai Yang and Zhao Dan, artists Liu Haisu and Zhu Qizhan and popular writer Ba Jin. In the 1980s, the Renmin Studio introduced a new approach to studio portraits, becoming the most popular photo studio in the city, especially for weddings and family pictures.

Hu Jun / SHINE

A small exhibition on the first floor features old photos of local celebrities.

The studio on Hefei Road displays its history with a small exhibition on the first floor, featuring old photos of local celebrities between 1930 and 1980, as well as photographic equipment used by the

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