Guess the City

... still no idea though :(

Lyon:

https://goo.gl/maps/PjkD5ws2raizKdZ57

high five!

Alright - how? It looks like that roof top isn't a parking spot anymore in the latest google aerial photo?

nice!

I just went through the list of locations on the Decathlon website. Unfortunately no photos are provided, but I tried to find ones that seemed to be inside malls, judging from the address, and then checked them out on street view. It was hard to find a street view on the roof of that mall in Lyon, but an interior pic showed the skylight from below, so I thought I was on the right track.

Fantastic!

Well, at least I learned that there's a sporting goods company called "DECATHLON" today.

Better than "DICK'S" I guess

That brown office building looks pretty decrepit in the original photo but in the Google street view it’s got a logo of a major corporation (I forget what it’s is).

Better than "DICK'S" I guess

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Athlete%27s_Foot?wprov=sfla1

Good work on that one, wasn't sure if it would go off one pic!

where did the original pic come from, not google maps then?

Original pic was from google maps but doesn't seem to be there now, or at least I can't find it

I think you mentioned before that there was a photo that wasn't showing up on the map for you but you could still see it when it was a direct link?

https://i.ibb.co/TBfWTD9/asa.jpg

Friday

That just screams Pittsburgh to me for some reason.

Some castle type building with floodlights on the (garages? arched thing to the left) ? Quite a fancy street light, too - is it a whole Disney-inspired street/neighbourhood?

that GMC limits this to North America where gas is cheaper, I would think

... and there are a LOT more houses with turrets than you would think :(

I think the thing on the left is a viaduct.

Could be any hilly US city.

Los Angeles has plenty of GMCs/other big trucks. People have money to burn here.

i don't think those trees are southern california. west coast though?

looks like a white bus in the background

those kind of streetlamps (the ones that look like the ends of condoms) are uniquely american in my experience (as if the GMC truck wasn't enough)

oooh, the thing I thought was a floodlight for the castle is the cabin of a bus/truck/tram/... - and between the trees there's another one.

Are those overhead cables for a trolley bus or tram?

IF (big if) it's a trolleybus, there's only five systems still in operation in the USA, according to wikipedia: San Francisco, Boston (two lines: Cambridge and South Boston/Waterfront), Dayton, Philadelphia and Seattle. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trolleybus_systems_in_the_United_States )

if it's a tram then the list is a lot longer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars_in_North_America#System_lists

Looks like there is writing in washed out white on the top bit of the bridge. Looks like Geo.. Gooble. Clue or useless, I don’t know.

I still say it's Pittsburgh. They have a light rail (tram) system but I can't find out the color of the rolling stock.

Isn't that just the Google watermark? xp

indeed - I'm afraid that's the google watermark

Lol, then useless.

the bus is an MCI D series (4000 or 4500, maybe others too) which is operated by pittsburgh

or at least operated in and around pittsburgh. the viaduct could be an elevated busway

guys you can keep saying pittsburgh til you're blue in the face, if you want confirmation cherry blossom will need a minimum 6 figure grid reference

Lol. And it may not even be Pittsburgh but one of the 100 or so grubby municipalities in Allegheny County. To which I would say: a borough is not a city!!!

Tell that to Titshire, the largest hamlet in Shroppingham, featured here in 2018

"Tell it to Titshire" - now there's a book/album title that should exist

https://i.ibb.co/DW8yYDR/uc.jpg

Friday, View II

Is that Walgreens? (not that that would help much, they have like 9,000 stores in the US)

Yes, Walgreens are everywhere in the US. It seems like maybe in this pic we're on the bridge/viaduct shown in the background of the first pic? Trying to work out whether that's train tracks in the far right hand side of this pic, which would possibly be passing under the bridge.

looks a lot like philadelphia tbh

I think I've looked at all the Walgreens in Philadelphia and nothing with a viaduct + a big house with turrets seems to be jumping out at me

good on you, i've not that much attention span lol. what about pgh?

My wife just walked in and looked at the picture and told me it was in Union City. Actually Weehawken, I guess. Apparently we've driven past it multiple times, which I didn't recall.

https://goo.gl/maps/rimHEwRGxi1icarq6

I guess its near the ramp that we take to get on 495 heading west, but since I'm usually driving I've never noticed that library with the turrets before.

OH SHIT! I totally recognize that now, but it's been years and years since I was a passenger on that stretch.

holy crap! Well done mrs o. nate!

I bet we would have gotten it a lot faster if this had been the angle

https://www.google.be/maps/@40.7688973,-74.0238126,3a,75y,118.91h,76.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soLj3LvtQhuxTebafXlLQ0g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

My wife just walked in and looked at the picture and told me it was in Union City. Actually Weehawken, I guess. Apparently we've driven past it multiple times, which I didn't recall/

Yes, Weehawken Public Library, such a familiar view to anyone who's driven or got the bus out that way!