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
yeah it's pretty unique! n.b. the photo is not mine and i already lost the twitter source lol
― Joses Chrust (map), Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
Makes me want to sell my shit and move to Pittsburgh tbh
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
Pittsburgh enthusiasts should check out my friend Ed's work:https://edpanar.com/index.htmlhttps://www.instagram.com/edpanar/
― rob, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
Nice!
These are good for Pittsburgh too though
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dans240z/
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
very cool! They're probably friends
― rob, Sunday, 31 January 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
Pittsburgh is okay, it is INCREDIBLY dreary, though. After Portland, it has the most days with cloud cover of any major US city. Of course, some might find that appealing.
I will note that I have driven through Pgh and spent a number of days in Pittsburgh, and I never, ever saw the sun. Anecdotal, sure, but still.
I'm also from Philadelphia, tho, so talking shit on Pittsburgh is like second nature.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Sunday, 31 January 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
can someone tell me *where* in Pittsburgh that is? like maybe what's that street running prominently up the right half of the photo or something? is it meeting train tracks at the bottom?
― alpine static, Sunday, 31 January 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
twitter said the south shore
― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 1 February 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
It is the Southside Slopes, from beloved local photographer, (Dave DiCello.
― Bernie's two left mittens (doo dah), Monday, 1 February 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
Was betting Hooville
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 February 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/L2cyyH7v/yes2.jpg
yes
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:35 (three years ago) link
Hiroshima?
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
Actually idk why I said Hiroshima when I meant Onomichi.
― wangdalf the blight (gyac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link
Bellingham
― rob, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
yeah those are USA signs
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
the walk sign and the no parking sign, I mean
I picked somewhere in the Pacific Northwest that I'd been to, but I'm assuming it could also be in British Columbia
― rob, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
yeah strong Astoria vibes tho i don't know if the downtown's as built up as that, or ever went for sky-bridges which (usually but def not exclusively) suggest someplace with subzero winters.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
might be a weird angle trick, but I don't think the steepness of the hill works for Astoria
― rob, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
Hm might have just talked myself out of Bellingham wrt steepness as well
― rob, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
Juneau!
https://goo.gl/maps/gPoF85H458Pjt9176
― doctor johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Ah-ha! didn't even occur to me dammit
― rob, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
Lol @ st
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
Yeah that grim intrabuilding tunnel should've been a dead giveaway for the north
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
Comfortably dispatched by askance johnson, and nice to see the exact street in the answer!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/fk4xyNb6/yay.png
Magic handrail
― cherry blossom, Friday, 5 February 2021 12:09 (three years ago) link
Looks like Amman from the citadel?
― or something, Friday, 5 February 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
Can't totally tell, but that seems correct.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Friday, 5 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
Not Amman
― cherry blossom, Friday, 5 February 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link