though I agree that these are not likely college banners
― All cars are bad (Euler), Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Fair enough. I guess this photo doesn't strike me as very campus-y, although it's not impossible.
Also, are we certain that those suspended wires indicate the presence of a trolleybus system?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
Why is politician partly whited out and is he holding some kind of torch?
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
It def can’t be North America, hardly any trolleybuses here, and it def gives an eastern Central Europe post soviet vibe. Somewhere in Romania?
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Sizable trolley bus network in Seattle but it’s not Seattle
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
Seems a bit too clean to be Romania but I might be wrong. We've still got trolleybuses in some cities, that much is true.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, January 30, 2021 12:23 PM (two hours ago)
also not sold on this trolley idea fwiw
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
The parallel cables do point towards it, I suppose.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
Vilnius, maybe?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
We're ignoring the mural
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
and not paying enough attention to the politician
Needs more jpeg.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
I feel like I've seen the character in the right hand side of the mural somewhere before
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
Shirley Temple?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
Will be getting another up shortly.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
I mean, pom is right:
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
I'm intrigued by the sign next to the red gate, looks like it's representing a church or something like that. Like it's telling us "this hasn't always been a shithole, there used to be a beautiful church around here"
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
wish list (apart from higher resolution photos obv)- ability to maximize pictures by more than the current 500%- larger computer screen
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
is this Ukraine?
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
Could be Russia too. Or Belarus.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah Belarus too, I was thinking of something in the Chernobyl area.
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
Making it easy
https://i.imgur.com/VKm0Sno.jpg
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Nice place.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
квитки, eh? That helps, but ticket booths are a dime a dozen in trolleybus land.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
Cumbernauld
― or something, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.7879571,24.0164532,3a,75y,307.13h,80.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sURF6uj4CyLZpcJZuuxrmhw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Lviv
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
Was thinking Auchinstarry myself.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
How'd you find it so fast?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
I mean:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_Ukraine
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
I'd found very similar streetlights in Kiev before but not quite the same. The blue/yellow in the mural was starting to make me ditch Russia (even though it turned out to be a red herring). I dropped on a couple of others, then saw the streetlights again in Lviv but when I went to other streets they changed back to standard so I figured they might be unique to where I'd dropped onto, moved along a minute or so and came across it
Didn't look at the trolley thing at all xp, wasn't convinced by that
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
Well played, as always.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
I was still trying to work out why it seemed to say квитк instead of квиток for “ticket”, but forgot to check for the plural, which is indeed квитки, with the last letter not visible here - and then it would have been on to the over 40 UKR cities that currently have trolleybus systems... but knew others would get there much faster. well done!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
I now have a very clear picture in my head of the blue and yellow guy in my imagination of the mural. That is completely different from the guy in the actual mural.
He is a Ukrainian national mascot with a yellow football for a head. I can picture him clear as day, but it is becoming clear that it most likely doesn't exist
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
Was wrong about the banner being a politician, looks like it is a university banner
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Hah, and I was even wronger.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Lviv it is— the Lviv-1 Stryiskyi Bus Station, which is nowhere near the center of the city, and instead is set way back in the midst of Soviet apartment blocks many kilometers from the town center.
The last I was there, in 2005, there were packs of wild dogs running around, goats wandering that median, and we had to take the scariest jitney ride I've ever been on to get to the town center.
Certainly my most memorable travel experience.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
We'd also taken an all-night train ride from Kraków to Przemyśl, then a bus-ride from there through the western Ukrainian countryside immediately beforehand, so were haunted by delirium, vodka, and statues of Stalin still proudly surrounded by roses in small town squares.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
https://ukranews.com/uploads/news/2010/09/28/457e1c05c31089fb1a48994d3f7a83ed8b4b706d.jpgthis is the mascot of local football team FC Karpaty Lviv, looks kinda similar (I’d say the one in the photo is lion-like as well) but their shirt colour is emphatically green, so seems unlikely. if someone could only decipher the cyrillic graffiti...
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
I was pretty convinced it was Russia, possibly eastern Ukraine but discounted Lviv altogether at first. Those weird streetlights don't seem common. Definitely mostly luck on that one
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
That ad says 'Get a European education'.
xps
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
there were packs of wild dogs running around
In Romanian, we call stray dogs 'maidanezi'. Same root as the Ukrainian майдан (public square) of Euromaidan fame.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
Looks like its for a university in Lublin
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 30 January 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
Relevant:
https://www.kyivpost.com/wp-content/uploads/data/uploads/d/iblock/en_articles/90143/2405/original.jpg
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
I still think it's Cumbernauld.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 January 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
this is incredibly easy i just wanted to post this cool picture
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtFeVxsW4AIbvT3?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
― Joses Chrust (map), Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
I don't know where that is but what an awesome pic indeed.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
I think this is Pittsburgh
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
yeppers
― Joses Chrust (map), Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
I'd been thinking about doing a Pittsburgh one. Its just one of those cities that says "Here I am, this is me"
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
10/10 shot too!
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link