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Memory Lane: Traveling through time on Google maps

By Michael Liedtke
Published April 23, 2014 1:23pm ET
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Memory Lane: Traveling through time on Google maps
This illustration provided by Google highlights a new Google Maps Street View snapshots feature, which allow users to see what specific neighborhoods and landmarks looked like at different periods during the past seven years that Google Inc. has been dispatching camera-toting cars to take pictures for its maps. This image shows what the Howard Theater in Washington looked like in July 2009, left, and after renovation in May 2012, right. (AP Photo/Google) | Uncredited

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Trips down memory lane are now available on Google’s digital maps.

The new twist on time travel is debuting Wednesday as part of the “Street View” feature in Google’s maps, a navigational tool that attracts more than 1 billion visitors each month.

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