east st. louis?
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
harbl you're almost there!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
well i really don't know of any cities there except east saint louis or carbondale and i have a feeling it's neither. probably a small-ish town. i've never been there, i just had a feeling.
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
jacksonville (I am using google maps to guess, can you tell?)
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, I understand the pyramids reference now, but I cheated so I won't give it away.
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, i didn't even see the pyramids thing. it's a place where it's hard out for a pimp right
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ok is it cairo, illinois? lol
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
west memphis, arkansas?
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
its cairo, illinois...had wanted to post this pic but theres a googleable ghost mural on it
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/3361660880_792c48b192_b.jpg
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
how did stan know?
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xps Ahhh Rochdale! Amazing detail, you can see the fire station and the dome of the rather splendid John the Baptist church.
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
(i'd thought it was sorta...not famous exactly, but well known because of well how it looks!)
xp i wondered that too
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
cairo, i mean
I cheated. "find flickr page from url"
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
116 is an amazing pic
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ah ok. i wouldn't have guessed from the 100s of possibilities without that clue, but i'm still proud of my ability to guess what part of what state.
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
harbl you are mad skilled, stanm you should be ashamed of yourself. i should too though cause i never get anything done when this thread is alive
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
well i did think something in the uk might be west virginia earlier
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry :-(
Won't do it again.
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
are there other small towns in southern illinois that are in the same state of repair as Cairo?
(i know about east stl)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i would guess that there must be
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― harbl, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:01 PM (
could say there are sorta similarities in a way between pennine milltowns in the UK and western PA (and parts of WV i guess?)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ah I'd picked cairo because I thought it was kind of an extreme example and might be got fairly easily (which it was, i didnt know you could cheat tho - i will be better prepared next time)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, it was mostly that and the mix of mountains and fields, but WV looks more forested in my experience driving through
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
is cairo known for something then?
I'd thought it was sorta well known just for being a complete wreck (80% depopulation according to wikipedia)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm reading the wikipedia now, i didn't know about it! very interesting.
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a couple youtube videos which are pretty good, driving round it. one with an old woman talking about how it used to be before the war, which is great, and one with corny ambient music but does show the almost completely abandoned downtown
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Love Kay-ro an places like that in So. Ill, used to drive over there when I went to SIUC.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
117
http://i46.tinypic.com/9bhrps.jpg
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
somewhere in Africa? - Ethiopia? probably miles out
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 10 June 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Eastern Europe/former USSR somewhere?
― ailsa, Thursday, 10 June 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^yeah was thinking this
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:35 (thirteen years ago) link
way off
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
church is making me think greece or cyprus
― circles, Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
nope. think of a region that is heavy on christianity.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
somewhere in south america?
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
close!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
central america? guatemala?
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
*guatemala city
tegucigalpa?
― about as twee as a being beaten with a phone book (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 June 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
^ ding ding ding
― StanM, Sunday, 13 June 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
118
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4745674438_f827cfab86_z.jpg
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
charleston, wv?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree it looks Appalachian -- Scranton, PA?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
both kinda good guesses but at same time not all that close either
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Spokane?
― kate78, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
now thats a lot further away!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
montpelier, vt?
― caek, Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
nope - the first two guesses charleston and scranton were good in general terms - its sorta between the two. Thought someone would have got closer though
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link