10+ Incredible Pictures Of How Things Deteriorate Over Time

Time is a powerful weapon.

Meryem

• Published in Interesting
• September 6, 2017

People age with time so does everything else on this planet. There is nothing on earth that can’t be affected with time progression. From living creature to objects with different size, they all suffer slow but noticeable modifications that effect, most of the time and in a negative way, its appearance. Sometimes it's a change of color, other times it's a print or a deformation or even a complete transformation.

Yes, time can be a curse and here is a list of photographs to prove it. These will amaze you but at the same time scare you a little bit. Torture is a subject matter that we are simultaneously horrified of and fascinated with. In fact, many places throughout the world you can find a museum where the sole theme is torture methods throughout history. I'd say that's a pretty clear sign we're fascinated with this horrifying stuff.

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My mother bought for my brother two teddy bears at the day of his birth. One for him and one for his first future child. My brother was born in 1985 and had his ready bear, the one on the left, for 30 years. Now his first child is born and will have the one on the right. It was kept in storage for him for 30 years.

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The building of New York city used to be a dirtier city when coal plants were practically instinct in the Northeast. Now power washing has made them look new.

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A Penny's journey through life

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Years and years of posters are on this lamp

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This is what happens to your face when you spend 28 years driving a delivery truck

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This is a 1952 silver dollar carried by my grandfather in his pockets

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"Said goodbye to by best friend after 13 years. This is is vaccination tag all worn down after a lifetime of tinking against his water bowl. RIP little man."

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Monk has been praying at the exact same spot for 20 years. His footprints are now indented on the floor.

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People standing every day on the marble floor of this bank dig a small hole in it

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"My radio button has worn out to be a Victorian portrait"

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These are the stairs leading to the top of the leaning tower of Piza

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This bell "ate" the top of the door slowly

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"The markings on the bottom of my coffee cup from a year of stirring."

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"This lamppost focuses the sun and scorchers a line in the grass."

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The floor near the register of a restaurant that opened in 1924 deteriorated to the last layer

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What's left of a very old neighbor's house

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Moving a rug for the first time in 16 years shows how the sun can severely damage your hardwood floor

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 Climbing stairs over time causes them to warp

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 "15 years wear of kids turning a handle at a science museum."

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 "A nicely worn staircase into the stone wall above a creek"

Meryem