Top left corner of the "Santa on the street with a white piano (and maybe a second piano?)" picture: it's a store's name I guess, but what does it say? Lafis? Tafis? Tafts?
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
the KUM that waterface already mentioned in that same pic (organs instead of pianos maybe?) : could be KUH or XUH too?
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah sorry, I'm repeating info other people had already noticed aren't I - meh
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Not a huge fan of these indoor ones if I'm being honest― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:03 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:03 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
heavy cosign. this isn't "Guess the Interior"
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
agree, jeez
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
I kinda like the inside ones because when I first see them I'm like "this is so crazy, but *someone* is going to figure it out"
― a (waterface), Thursday, 11 November 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
I’m fine with an interior as the first photo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
the interiors are interesting to me because guessing at them involves different referents than the exteriors. that being said, i basically follow this thread now to look at foliage in different photos and wonder about it, so i'd be disappointed if they weren't posted as much.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Even if you like the indoor ones (NB: you are wrong) no one’s been able to guess this one and cherry blossom has apparently taken a powder.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
Which is fine, of course— cherry blossom almost single-handedly keeps the thread going
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
but yeah, this is an inscrutable pic, no one has a clue.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
Feel like we've at least nailed it down to a small city in the US that had immigration from a Catholic country. (Having put all that down in black and white now it's probably all wrong!)
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
I had thought the correct guesser got to set the next challenge, but that's not the case?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
That used to be be they way it worked, but it seems many guessers don't jump in with a new one soon enough, or at all.
― nickn, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah tbf cherry blossom's heroic efforts in starting my favourite thread and keeping it going ensure I'll cut their idiosyncrasies plenty of slack
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Those Christmas pyramids are characteristically (but not exclusively) German fwiw.
― Tim, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
Definitely not throwing shade at cherry blossom, just that we are foundering without them lol. Hope they’re just busy.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 November 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
Not sure what to make of the German origin of Christmas pyramids, as it doesn't jibe with what looks like Catholic clerical garb.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 November 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
the photo has already disappeared behind the fold in this ~8000-post thread. it's obviously stitched together from at least a few images
― Dan S, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
There are Catholic Germans, right?
― nickn, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
Yes but they’re in bavaria and I think they’re kind of under represented among German Americans. Fair warning I’m like 80% certain that’s a US outlet and catholic vestments, but I could be completely wrong.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 November 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/Ms4bk3X/Screenshot-2021-11-12-at-04-39-45.png
Back in the streets
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 November 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
Wisconsin is filled with descendants of Catholic immigrants from Bavaria fwiw
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 12 November 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
It's flat, there's a pick up truck, I'm guessing somewhere midwest
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 November 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
"Image not found!"
― nickn, Friday, 12 November 2021 05:43 (two years ago) link
the shade of blue is very characteristic of Ljubljana tho
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 November 2021 08:01 (two years ago) link
There are lots of catholics in Germany outside Bavaria, especially in the west of the country, not that that makes much difference to the likelihood of this being a specifically German exhibit / museum.
― Tim, Friday, 12 November 2021 08:09 (two years ago) link
I don't know why the image isn't showing. It was at first, maybe I deleted by mistake and it cached. I'll put it up again shortly
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 November 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/p0WFwNJ/p.png
Back in the streets II
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
Small Railroad town in the US Midwest, but that’s all I got. And I’ve been to a lot of small town historical museums with a display like the first image.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
looks a little more west (plains) than midwest tbh
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
I'm trying to understand what I'm looking at on the right, between the tree and our location?
― StanM, Friday, 12 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
some kind of old gas pump?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
feels like nebraska
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
maybe kansas or one of the dakotas.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
Seems like many medium-sized midwestern towns have a historical museum with displays similar to the first pic.
― o. nate, Friday, 12 November 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
the picture's above the fold now so i can't verify without loading this insanely huge thread but iirc it sure looks similar to The American Historical Society of Germans From Russia in Lincoln, NE
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
relinking the first pic:
https://i.ibb.co/M8MfYwJ/cmas.jpg
― StanM, Saturday, 13 November 2021 08:50 (two years ago) link
2nd pic: there's a sign in the distance with a longish word on it but it's too small to read - other than that... No idea? Are all the buildings very low because they're near an airport?
― StanM, Saturday, 13 November 2021 08:55 (two years ago) link
In the first pic I’m looking at the photo of a street scene that seems to be labelled “[-illegible-] music store Santa.” NextTo the music store on one side there is a sign that could say Taft’s and in the other one a sign that might say Kuhn. There’s an old theatre in Lebanon,OR called Kuhn’s, but there was also a chain of “variety stores” called Kuhn’s that started in Columbia,TN that was a precursor to Big-K so this gets me nowhere.
― Tim, Saturday, 13 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 13 November 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
we're on a road that's going up -> a bridge over something that ends in H ?
― StanM, Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
(nope - the name of the river is on a green sign with white letters in North America)
― StanM, Saturday, 13 November 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/zxYxgt8/ara.jpg
Back in the back in the streets
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Sunday, 14 November 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
I don't know if this will point the right way but:https://www.google.com/maps/place/549+N+Harrison+St,+Davenport,+IA+52803,+USA/@41.5251595,-90.5789161,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87e2349bf7cc63ff:0x1115893076e96c4d!8m2!3d41.5251555!4d-90.5767274
(Davenport, Iowa). Now to find the indoor place...
― kinder, Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Aha! https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5214872,-90.583515,3a,75y,172.51h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya95.375145-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
― kinder, Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
yay! nice one
― StanM, Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
ngl, it has been an ambition of mine to get one of these one day!
― kinder, Sunday, 14 November 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
How did you find it? Are you familiar with Davenport?
― nickn, Sunday, 14 November 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
nope, I googled 11'8 bridge and it turns out there's a really famous one in North Carolina, but it's not the one in the picture. Then I googled "overheight vehicle route" and found a Flickr picture of it! so I got lucky for sure.
― kinder, Sunday, 14 November 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link