well i did think something in the uk might be west virginia earlier
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry :-(
Won't do it again.
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:02 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
i would guess that there must be
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:05 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
117
http://i46.tinypic.com/9bhrps.jpg
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
somewhere in Africa? - Ethiopia? probably miles out
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 10 June 2010 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Eastern Europe/former USSR somewhere?
― ailsa, Thursday, 10 June 2010 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
^yeah was thinking this
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
way off
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
church is making me think greece or cyprus
― circles, Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
nope. think of a region that is heavy on christianity.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
somewhere in south america?
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
close!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
central america? guatemala?
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
*guatemala city
tegucigalpa?
― about as twee as a being beaten with a phone book (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 June 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^ ding ding ding
― StanM, Sunday, 13 June 2010 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
118
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4745674438_f827cfab86_z.jpg
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
charleston, wv?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree it looks Appalachian -- Scranton, PA?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
both kinda good guesses but at same time not all that close either
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Spokane?
― kate78, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
now thats a lot further away!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
montpelier, vt?
― caek, Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:33 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
there is nothing there to tell me it is american, except (possibly) for the width of the road. the hills in the background look like foothills, old and hunkered down. probably north-eastern, with a river (crossed by a bridge in the background)... could be springfield, ma? a piece of albany, ny?
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
God you have a lot of cities I've never heard of in the States.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
being from upstate ny i feel like that is a good guess but i don't know which city. what about utica?
― the girl with the butt tattoo (harbl), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
118 is kind of a hard one (though people have got harder ones!) - I'll reveal at the end of the day if no one has it (charleston is nearest guess so far)
this should be achievable though
119
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4773647457_9e8203d837_b.jpg
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
utica, ny: the only place i have ever seen kids playing in the street next to a car on fire. it was like sarajevo, or one of those movies from the '80s about white teachers who go to bad neighborhoods to condescend to black people.
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, July 8, 2010 9:28 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
This is kinda turning into Guess the College-Town/County Seat/Small Burgh.
― kate78, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
That white rounded conical object in the middle foreground of 118 might be a road salt depository, in which case someplace far north enough to get serious snow.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
what about altoona
― the girl with the butt tattoo (harbl), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
getting called a "city" is a pretty easy lay in the u.s., chap.
― caek, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3631/ssshf.jpg
― wilter, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7254/asassaj.jpg
― wilter, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ Launceston, Tasmania
― nate woolls, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
118 was Pittsburgh (welll... Mckeesport specifically but would have accepted pittsburgh as an answer)
― cherry blossom, Friday, 9 July 2010 06:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Was going to say Homestead but the river was not quite right!
― The swan at dawn is now gone (doo dah), Friday, 9 July 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
that would have been super close!
― cherry blossom, Friday, 9 July 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
120.http://i27.tinypic.com/2igopqo.jpg
― 156, Friday, 9 July 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Vancouver
― lexicons of loaf (corey), Friday, 9 July 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link