Alexandria
― rob, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
Definitely driving on the left!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Windhoek
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
https://goo.gl/maps/UiAGMT5JUXFcrnyz5
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
Yes, well done! How did you work it out?
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
I tried for 5 mins to find the original location but I cannot find it. I believe it's somewhere around the roundabout near Christuskirche but I don't have the time today for further goofing off.
The 2nd pic was way more telling. I could make out Alexander F____ House which suggested it was an English speaking country. The palm trees made me believe it was equatorial or southern hemisphere and definitely a coastal city.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
...except for the coastal bit :)
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
Second pic definitely required, that first one was a real needle in a haystack
― or something, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
Sorry "coastal" may not have been the best descriptor but when looking at maps of continents, Windhoek seems coastal from that perspective.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
I believe it's somewhere around the roundabout near Christuskirche but I don't have the time today for further goofing off.
It's in Limassol. Or, at least its twin is. I was sure I found the building in the distance, the kerb markings, almost everything, in Limassol. Definitely wide of the mark once again
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
My turn?
https://i.imgur.com/NTtLTW3.png
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 05:13 (three years ago) link
too easy
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
Beersheba?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
Monterey, California?
― or something, Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
definitely reminds me of Israel
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 11 February 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
also like the hills above Palo Alto, looking toward the Pacific, but the colors and tbh the fences look more like the eastern edges of Jerusalem
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 11 February 2021 10:59 (three years ago) link
That's a race track no? Hence my guess. A few minutes googling famous racetracks (or raceways as I found they're called in the US) took me to Laguna Seca outside Monterey. This looks a lot like it, even down to the blue and white strip along the track
― or something, Thursday, 11 February 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
Looks close to the spot
The Corkscrewhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/9npXDVUyBQx5NDiH7
― or something, Thursday, 11 February 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
correct, the corkscrew at Laguna Seca! Apologies if that was too easy.
I have vomited at the apex of that climb three times in an hour long event.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/5yvg6GYy/16387-A3-C-2-AC4-495-B-90-CE-06-D38371-F1-E6.jpg
Quite a few leads in the picture for this one.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
Laguna Seca
Is this actually in a city?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
I checked with your mom and she said that yes it is.
― lord of the ting tings (map), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Yours said it isn't.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 February 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Yes Tom Dombadilly, Laguna Seca is in Monterey, CA, USA.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 11 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
https://virtualvacation.us/guess now with video
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 February 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari),
I can't really look properly until tomorrow but this looks a good one
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
singapore
― treeship., Friday, 12 February 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Not Singapore.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 12 February 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
the sign says "BOUISI" so somewhere that was formerly part of french indochina. it just seems like that region to me.
― treeship., Friday, 12 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Surabaya
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.2393138,112.7373624,3a,75y,3.29h,98.77t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbBEjYxN59iAra0jfGD16oQ!2e0!5s20190201T000000!7i13312!8i6656
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
I figured it was Indonesia but no real clue where, dropped in Surabaya and saw similar roofs straightaway, but finding the actual building was tougher
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
Correct!
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 12 February 2021 20:46 (three years ago) link
I was clear on it being Indonesia and found the similar buildings and all, but then I thought the same thing with thinking Windhoek was in Cyprus and that I'd found the right building in Limassol
― cherry blossom, Friday, 12 February 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
gah, what a missed opportunity! thought it might be a police car, but couldn’t quite read how exactly the word was spelled here, and then fixated on that street lamp pole, which looked so familiar, but I couldn’t get it through googling. never occurred to me those red shapes could be letters. “polisi” would have been such a dead giveaway. damn you, low resolution!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 February 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/PrgcBGQS/ux20.jpg
Monday
― cherry blossom, Monday, 15 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
That looks so much like Toronto, that style of high school underpass mural. Can't place it, or the red trusses, though
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 15 February 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
I'm deeply tempted to say Philadelphia, but I don't know that mural and can't find anything about it on the local mural sites. The buildings toward the center-right look deeply eastern US seaboard to me, or at least east of the Mississippi.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
I *really* think it's Philadelphia, in the "I feel like I've driven by that mural on the way to the airport" sense. Does on the way to the airport give a clue?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
The foliage does place it around Philly, to my eyes... slightly too verdant for Toronto
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
it's not on the way to the airport
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
oh well
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
Those buildings could rly be anywhere influenced by edwardian architecture
― scampsite (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
i can understand where you'd get that, though, eephus— of the several routes one can take to the Philly airport, one of them requires the driver to stop at a light near a bridge with a mural that has similar vibe. That mural, however, is nowhere near any hills, or within sight of a residential neighborhood, and doesn't feature a red bridge, but some sort of old school concrete/stone amalgam...
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
welp I just exhausted 5 minutes of various permutations of search terms:
red orange steel art deco rail truss trestle underpass overpass mural
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
The part of the mural under the bridge depicts a cityscape which maybe represents the city this is? Maaaaaaybe Chicago? There's one building in front which seems to have a diagonal front face like that tower in Chicago that has that.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
Chicago railroad underpasses tend to be concrete in my experience.
― Mosholu Porkway (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
it reminds me so much of one neighbourhood in montreal but like if four different parts of the neighbourhood were kinda patched together like in a dream
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
any other hints?
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
That stop light is interesting -- only two lights and they're both red (or is one orange?).
― doctor johnson (askance johnson), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link