"the Saint-Clément Aqueduct is nicknamed Les Arceaux for its double row of Roman-inspired arches"
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
Ha wow, kudos on finding the spot Jibe, I'd stopped looking
― ignore the blue line (or something), lundi 19 avril 2021 13:48 (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
got lucky googling through quite a few variations of fleuriste + **ama until i found it
― Jibe, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
hah I was looking for "Ouama" or something like that - so off the mark as usual
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:24 (three years ago) link
the shop is called "Chuma" and it doesn't sell flowers, but decorations.
so all my searching Google Maps for "[city in southern France] + fleuriste" was not time well spent then
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― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
...or maybe I just did it wrong!
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
could be your search was too restrictive with the quotemarks and +, i just googled fleuriste chuma and it popped up
― Jibe, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:41 (three years ago) link
Is that a sliver of a gothic arch I see on the far right?
― nickn, donderdag 15 april 2021 18:39
nickn was actually halfway there, that was the big clue, I guess: a section of the 18th century aqueduct
nickn was almost all the way there, especially once Montpellier was mentioned it just needed to be poked over the line. There was too much out there already to give any more!
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
pretty sure i googled 'montpellier arch' and i didn't see any photos of the aqueduct - now i know what i'm looking for i see one or two. should've made good on my promise upthread and used yandex, there's loads on there.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Monday, 19 April 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
cherry blossom playing a hard game now, no longer enough just to name the city, they want the exact spot! I looked around the Arc de Triomphe in Montpellier but when I realised it wasnt that I kind of gave up on it
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 19 April 2021 13:01 (three years ago) link
cherry blossom playing a hard game now, no longer enough just to name the city, they want the exact spot!
Has anyone made any progress on identifying the two men? My gut is telling me they're not locals, but not getting much of a reading on how far they've traveled in from
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
what is the skinny guy stooping over to inspect?
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Just assumed it was wine cos they're French
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 19 April 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
he might have spotted a bottle of blue nun in there
― calzino, Monday, 19 April 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
They’re both named “Claude”.
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 April 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
Claude au Trent
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/8z20ZFwh/f.png
monday
― cherry blossom, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
Looks to me a lot like a building in a New England college with the framed picture a painting of the early buildings of said college
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
Looked briefly for views of 18th century Harvard but don't see a match for that set of buildings
what, we’re doing Guess the Room now?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
I think we're playing Guess the Fifth Word of the Fourty-Second Page of the Grey Book on the Table now
― Dinsdale, Monday, 19 April 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
Yeah, ngl, you're taking the piss cherry blossom.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
fireplace reminds me of bern
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Monday, 19 April 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
Des Moines?
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
There's a gavel on the table and the view outside the window REALLY looks like a college campus, that's all I got
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 19:09 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the gavel makes me think political building, and the painting looks like an 18th century state capitol, with the sparse landscape suggesting a younger state.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
the painting looks a lot like the iowa old state capitol and that has a streetview inside but i can't find that room.
― Scheming politicians are captivating, and it hurts (ledge), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
(in iowa city)
TIL that Iowa City was Iowa's capital before Des Moines.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
no slam dunk but is it Appomatox Court House, VA?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 19 April 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
not the same office, but details match. Old Capitol, Iowa City:
https://i.postimg.cc/mDxxhzRc/download.png
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 19 April 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
Yep https://www.google.com/maps/@41.661148,-91.5360813,3a,75y,92.74h,75.17t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipNzuFqrGewv9a_oFgkt7fSl2-YoZjInp5qQkYvP!2e10!3e11!7i5376!8i2688?hl=en&authuser=0
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
nice
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 19 April 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
and btw the Old Capitol is in the middle of the University of Iowa campus so I correctly read the through-the-window view
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 19 April 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
Great team effort. Narrowing down to Iowa so quickly was impressive
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 03:12 (three years ago) link
Another one
https://i.postimg.cc/sg9Tp0Mw/Screenshot-20210420-102533-Maps.jpg
― ignore the blue line (or something), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 09:27 (three years ago) link
yeesh. it's gotta be the us. are acres of car wreckage a thing anywhere else?
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
maybe in Russia
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
yeah it feels more like eastern europe or russia, the cars look too small for it to be in the us
― Jibe, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
The hipped roofs and the one-line power pole say eastern europe to me too.
― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
is it a junkyard full of Yugos?
― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
I know, I know it's serious
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
it's a junkyard full of no-gos haha
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
It feels a fairly high latitude
The cars seem to have a more matte type look rather than glossy. I'm not good at that but if so does that say they've been there a long time? not sure how that helps tho
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
aircraft hangars in the distance?
― StanM, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
single line power, reasonably well maintained but narrow sidewalk, small cars = not the US.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
I think most of the junkyards like that in US have been emptied out as old junked cars have been shipped to China for the steel. You used to see them a lot more driving cross country in the '80s.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
you have never driven through the western us i take it. anyway ok it's not the us sheesh.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
I'm sure they still exist. Just that I remember as a kid driving past seemingly cars stacked alongside the side of a highway for miles. I think the prices of scrap steel have changed the economics of that. To me it does look like something that could be in the US, though the cars don't look quite right. I'm wondering about the line of trees in the distance. It reminds me of how trees grow alongside the sides of irrigation canals.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
map is right— there are still plenty of spots like this in rural parts of the western US. tbh it looks a lot like far Northern California, but it isn't, as has been established.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
i think it might be asia somewhere. maybe even japan (the sidewalk is weirdly good to me).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link