Guess the City

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I thought Penzance looked a bit familiar there. And I should have got Hull - the aquarium is very distinctive after all.

103:

http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/ilx/mystery-city-1.jpg

Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

bristol

caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

clifton village

caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Bah, evidently far too easy.

104:

http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/ilx/mystery-city-2.jpg

Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

ah, that's really familiar. I'll get it soon.

tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link

99 - North Central/eastern PA, too small for Scranton, hm? Williamsport?

doo dah, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link

104: Southend / Leigh-on-Sea?

Tim, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

104 is somewhere I've been - Filey maybe?

tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link

104 is scarborough, isn't it?

caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link

99 is close but not Williamsport

104 - Bridlington?

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link

think Caek's right on 104.

tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link

104: nobody's right yet, but some people are quite close.

Forest Pines Mk2, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Whitby?

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link

got it I think... Saltburn?

tomofthenest, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Yep, Saltburn

Forest Pines Mk2, Thursday, 22 January 2009 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link

99. Is it Jim Thorpe?

jarvis redwine, Thursday, 22 January 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

this is cool
http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/?page=satellite

ilx robot (jergins), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/3182129980_226dff369e_b.jpg

^^ 99 isn't Jim Thorpe, still unguessed

cherry blossom, Thursday, 9 July 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

altoona?

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link

that's impossible but yeah it looks like some pa mining town

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link

why's it impossible? i'm basing my guess on the little bit of yellow i see at the bottom of the beige mercury sable or whatever's license plate, plus the rolling hills, plus the too small to be pittsburgh.

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link

because it looks a lot like a couple places in pa i think. it's hard to tell them apart.

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link

almost looks too big to be altoona to me

tehresa, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link

it's ashland, pa!

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link

^^ flickr confirms this as fact! sorry, cherry blossom, for webmail summoning you to this thread needlessly.

does winner choose the next photo, is that how this thread works?

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link

i wanted to go read though! i can pick one tomorrow or something.
i'm amazed i knew because there must be 100 places that look like that but i just thought it looked like that one place i made my dad detour to so we could see centralia but i forgot what it was called. i remembered there were signs for anthracite real estate there and i googled it to remember it was ashland.

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link

oh when i said it was impossible i meant it was impossible to guess, not impossible that it was altoona. i don't know what altoona looks like.
can someone put up another? i'm no good at picking one

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link

I had promised I wasn't going to play this any more, but here's 105:

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2308/bigboat.jpg

Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link

Well, the ship's the QE2, which doesn't really narrow it down that much really, since it's been everywhere. I'll guess Honolulu.

ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link

You usually guess mine instantly, ailsa, but not this time. Here's another angle:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/914/noboat.jpg

Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link

miami?
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tehresa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link

galveston?

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link

the downtown structure def. looks north american, and that little jetty looks forested, and the light makes it look fairly high latitude, which makes me think it's in canada, but since there are no mountains within ~50 miles of the first shot, it's not vancouver. maybe an atlantic city like halifax? thunder bay?

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link

You're all way off.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link

A Coruna? Valencia?

ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link

perth?

caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link

(not the one in scotland)

caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link

None of those. I could post a suitably gritty street scene, if you'd prefer to guess from micro rather than macro.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link

i thought maybe it was perth earlier, but it doesn't seem to match the google maps aerial. then i checked all 100K+ cities in new zealand, no go. can you tell us which hemisphere this is in? i've already spent way too much time on this one.

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah post that street scene

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I've just been googling round European ports with no joy.

ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link

durban?

caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link

that looks like a rugby ground to me

caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link

the buildings almost look too modern to be a developed european city, plus the stadium in the lower left of the second picture looks like a soccer stadium now that i think about it. so now i think this is def. south america and not def. north america like i thought before.

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link

(yes, or "rugby")

iiiijjjj, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link

is it kingston

harbl, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link

I thought it was an athletics ground or a v. old football stadium

ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link

http://i47.tinypic.com/2vimsg5.jpg

Ismael Klata, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link

bermuda

caek, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link

Durban

ailsa, Monday, 30 November 2009 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link


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