History · Local · Coming Soon
Your Street's
Story.
What did your neighborhood look like in 1950? What was on that corner before the gas station? We're building a local history tool — and we need people who know.
Flyback lets you see any place from above, across time. We want to connect those aerial images to the stories that actually happened there. That's where you come in.
Already Built
This isn't just an idea — here's what we made for Montville.
Slideshow · ~30 min
Montville: The Roads Remember
A narrated 30-minute history of Montville Township — built from aerial photography, historical records, and AI storytelling. Watch it to see what this project can produce.
Watch the story →Interactive Map
Flyback — Aerial Time Machine
See any place in Medina County from above, across decades. Drop a pin on your street and watch it change from the 1940s to today.
Open the map →What We're Building
An aerial time machine
with the stories attached.
Flyback already shows aerial photography of any location from the 1940s to today. You can see how a street changed, what was there before, how the town grew.
The next step is attaching real stories to those images — not just “this is Medina Square in 1962,” but what that place meant to the people who were there.
That requires people. People with photos, records, and memories. People from here.
What We Need
Old Photos
Aerial shots, street-level photos, family pictures with identifiable locations from decades past.
Local Knowledge
You remember what was on that corner before the gas station. We need people who know Medina's stories.
Written Records
Newspaper clippings, family histories, church records, anything that anchors a story to a place.
Oral History
Stories passed down that aren't written anywhere. If it lives in someone's memory, we want to capture it.
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I want to be part of this.
Tell us a bit about what you have and we'll reach out when we're ready to start collecting.