Guess the City

Seaham: https://goo.gl/maps/KELmkLRgyuPyqsQcA

that was fast

Is it a city?
I was looking all over Sunderland but sure we've had that already

Ha, Seaham it is. Nice simple one with the gate and aldi combination

A bit more background on the burned out building

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/owners-fire-hit-eyesore-building-seaham-ordered-knock-it-down-498324

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18594480.fraudulent-ebay-seller-made-250k-criminal-activity/

First one I've gotten, and it was indeed the gate and the Aldi that did it!

I was going to crop it at just "The Lads" originally

I couldn't read the "Ha" but "Way the Lads" was enough.

I can't even read that now I know what it is - you DO mean that graffiti on the right, right?

https://i.postimg.cc/W36Hx984/Screenshot-2021-10-05-at-07-08-33.png

great work. the burnt building has indeed been demolished, as you can see on street view if you go down the road beside it ('back n terrace').

Guess the townlet

oooooh the fence

You can make out DUKE below THE LADS. It's the back of the Duke of Seaham pub.

https://i.postimg.cc/x85Kyy4J/a13.jpg

Midweek Madness II

An older city in the US.

Yeah, that fire escape (?) at the front of the building made me think US as well - some kind of French quarter or euro district type deal?
This building we're in has annoyingly little on the windows (post offices, banks, train stations would have all kinds of stuff on there I would expect)

there's a map behind the open door near the camera but it isn't giving much away

I'm curious about the 2nd trash receptacle that's further away from the camera. I guess maybe it's for recycling?

I'm curious about the 2nd trash receptacle that's further away from the camera. I guess maybe it's for recycling?

I wonder if playing with the contrast would bring out the text on the yellow vertical sign or the buildings across the plaza.

not on my freeware image editor

I guess maybe the vestibule between two sets of doors indicates a place with cold winters.

Findlay Market in Cincinnati OH

https://goo.gl/maps/MywMEo7zF9yHybn1A

I've actually been there, though I didn't recognize it.

Good one, thought these last two might go a little quicker after some tough ones. What was your route to it?

Zoomed in on the map and made out the street name "Race St". Tried a few cities with a Race Street. Got to Cincinnati and got lucky by clicking near Findlay Market right away, noticed the red crossbeam construction and then it was just a matter of clicking nearby until I found the spot.

I need a screen with more pixels, I can't even see Race St now you told me it's there

Yeah I even tried to ENHANCE and was like "Mare St? Mace St? Dace St?"

Perhaps it helped that I downloaded the full image and looked at it in a photo editor rather than in the browser.

So yes, an older US city that doesn't have much going for it!

i assumed it wasn't the US because there was somewhere to sit

https://i.postimg.cc/ydZ5VD0v/ayee.jpg

fffriday

A shitty resort.

Building top left doesn't look American to me so I think Europe, but obviously not Mediterranean. Woman with daughter looks vaguely East European or at least Middle European. Maybe somewhere on a lake? Or the Black Sea again, like Bulgaria or Romania?

blue and red water slides look pretty big, maybe a dedicated water park kind of thing?

Definitely a permanent park (all the umbrellas, and what looks like a concrete edge in the water area closest to the photographer). In fact, it doesn't look connected to a river or body of water at all because every pool edge I can see is concrete and I see vegetation beyond it.

No real clue where to start looking to be honest - hills, big white buildings in the distance, one of them with something on top maybe (observatory? dome?), a red/white antenna or chimney?
Building on the left looks vaguely Austrian/Swiss/Alpine/Southern Germany? Lady looks kinda Eastern European maybe? But this could just as easily be in South America.

And there are a lot more blue spiral water slides in the world than I thought :-)

is that a coke can on the towel in the foreground? Can't make out letters or logo but could be a clue, don't know?

I'm also thinking that fence is impossibly complicated & could have been much simpler to make but anyway

i'm kind of fascinated by the fence! never seen one quite like it with that mix of rigid palings and weldmesh.

the half hipped roof on the far left might be traceable architecture but i wouldnt know where to start.

I also thought that fence looked crazy complicated. Concrete edge to the water means yes this doesn't have to be near the sea/lake. Top right building still looks middle European to me, but the white apartment block looks wrong for a German city. And given the somewhat East European look of the woman, I'm still thinking that. Maybe Poland or something.

Top left building I meant

oh, you already said that lady looked Eastern European - sorry I repeated that. I guess I agree then :)

Would be amazed if anyone got it on this photo alone though!

that roof type is also called jerkinhead, apparently?

only in the us afaict

Also known as a half hip roof, Wikipedia informs me - common in England, Denmark and Germany, and especially in Austria and Slovenia.

Searching for the largest outdoor swimming pools in Europe has failed to unearth anything up to now

I keep staring at that fence and I wonder if it's 3-in-1 : no slats (just the metal), half filled with slats (like it is now) or completely closed off (stick in more slats in between the ones in the picture).

Unfortunately, looking for "weird multifunctional fences" hasn't gotten me anywhere useful :-)

The fence is a screen door from a Polish submarine…oof I’m funny.

Searching for the largest outdoor swimming pools in Europe has failed to unearth anything up to now

― ignore the blue line (or something)

i don't think its all that large on the scale of european water parks