Guess the City

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!

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.

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

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

what is the skinny guy stooping over to inspect?

Just assumed it was wine cos they're French

he might have spotted a bottle of blue nun in there

They’re both named “Claude”.

Claude au Trent

https://i.postimg.cc/8z20ZFwh/f.png

monday

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

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?

I think we're playing Guess the Fifth Word of the Fourty-Second Page of the Grey Book on the Table now

Yeah, ngl, you're taking the piss cherry blossom.

fireplace reminds me of bern

Des Moines?

There's a gavel on the table and the view outside the window REALLY looks like a college campus, that's all I got

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.

the painting looks a lot like the iowa old state capitol and that has a streetview inside but i can't find that room.

(in iowa city)

TIL that Iowa City was Iowa's capital before Des Moines.

no slam dunk but is it Appomatox Court House, VA?

not the same office, but details match. Old Capitol, Iowa City:

https://i.postimg.cc/mDxxhzRc/download.png

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

nice

and btw the Old Capitol is in the middle of the University of Iowa campus so I correctly read the through-the-window view

Great team effort. Narrowing down to Iowa so quickly was impressive

Another one

https://i.postimg.cc/sg9Tp0Mw/Screenshot-20210420-102533-Maps.jpg

yeesh. it's gotta be the us. are acres of car wreckage a thing anywhere else?

maybe in Russia

yeah it feels more like eastern europe or russia, the cars look too small for it to be in the us

The hipped roofs and the one-line power pole say eastern europe to me too.

is it a junkyard full of Yugos?

I know, I know it's serious

it's a junkyard full of no-gos haha

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

aircraft hangars in the distance?

single line power, reasonably well maintained but narrow sidewalk, small cars = not the US.

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.

you have never driven through the western us i take it. anyway ok it's not the us sheesh.

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.

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.

i think it might be asia somewhere. maybe even japan (the sidewalk is weirdly good to me).

looks like Japanese cars too

Fukushima?

I wondered about Hokkaido initially but the light didn't seem right, but then thats pretty flimsy either way

ha i def spent a while looking up 80s japanese minivans to see if anything matched that grey van on the right side of the lot, with little to no success

that minivan is part of the reason i think japan. not 100% but it looks like one of these. seems like those sold pretty well in australia too.

The fences are too low for the U.S., tweakers would be all over that place.

The van at the right looks like a Mitsubishi Delica which would be fairly rare in the U.S.

Somewhere in Australia?