i don't get a german american vibe fwiw (i get that this is a museum or whatever, but those pink vestments do feel v catholic)
― š¯” š¯”˛š¯”¢š¯”Ø (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
That Santa photo on the right, taken outside next to a large sign. Lifts? Litts? Maybe an old deparment store?
― a (waterface), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
There's another set of letters in the background, KUM, could be a radio station? There's a WKUM in Puerto Rico
― a (waterface), Friday, 5 November 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
this all feels like some "here's how pope X celebrated christmas when he was a child" display to me - and those three tower pictures... Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Italy?
I don't think it's Ratzinger, this is in his childhood house in Marktl, Bavaria (where they have a couple of free standing square towers but nothing 100% like on those pics): https://www.papsthaus.eu/index.php?page=biografie-raeume
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
not John Paul II either https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOizlB4Guq8S5BuN8i-qyBkKkaf1P22OBeFmsa6ifPlIaKtPIoqo-BzmAGJsRXg-g?key=MGlVZW85VWx3Qmo1TlJ2dWppZHhjLTd5WGxIY3Fn
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
That totally makes sense. Though it looks a bit threadbare for a pope's museum. Maybe a cardinal or other luminary of the church?
― o. nate, Friday, 5 November 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
a small parish when they worked before they got promoted maybe - but we can't go too far back either - when was Santa invented again? he did exist before coca cola gave him the red suit in the early 20th century, right?
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
it's the saddest christmas tree ever as well. a sign of poverty/famine/wartime?
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, father christmas and saint Nicholas existed before. but that Santa Claus look isn't too old imho
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
don't think it's a real tree, but in general I love spindly christmas trees
― Dan S, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
the wooden shepherd's cane could be famous, dunno?
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
not Father Pio either I think (stigmata dude in italy)
― StanM, Friday, 5 November 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
it could just as easily be "this is what (priest dude) brought with him from his home land" - turning it into a "could be anywhere in the world" deal. In short, I give up. Can I request a second pic?
― StanM, Sunday, 7 November 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Salzburg Christmas museum / Weihnachtsmuseum?
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 7 November 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
that looks way more professional than the pic we've got, I think
― StanM, Sunday, 7 November 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
that "ho ho ho" got me wondering... Was that associated with Father Christmas in continental Europe forever or is it a relatively recent import from the English speaking world?
― StanM, Monday, 8 November 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
The one label I could read was in English ("Christmas Pyramid" with no apparent non-English co-label) so I assume it's in the English speaking world.
― nickn, Monday, 8 November 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link
I think this has got to be US - English writing puts it in the Anglophone world, and this just doesn't feel very British/Commonwealth. Popish robes a bit of a mystery though. Writing in the Santa photo looks like 'Tafts' maybe?
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 8 November 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
cardinals wear red too - do any famous imported german/european ones spring to mind?
― StanM, Monday, 8 November 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
The power outlets are American
― š¯” š¯”˛š¯”¢š¯”Ø (caek), Monday, 8 November 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
Looks like pianos in the Santa Claus vintage photo? Don't think that helps much
― tomorrow, Monday, 8 November 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
Oops already noted
― tomorrow, Monday, 8 November 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
Need something to grease these wheels
― tomorrow, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Not a huge fan of these indoor ones if I'm being honest
― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
I feel like we haven't been able to get enough info from those three drawings/paintings of 1. a church that looks a bit like Notre Dame in Paris (two towers at one end but this one has a bigger one on the other end so it's not Notre Dame) - then below that 2. a big white castle/fort type building in the mountains and the third pic is a 3. rectangular tower + horses + something with stairs... None of this rings a clear bell with me though, no idea where/how to start searching for them.
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
The family photo with a way more healthy christmas tree... grandad, dad, 4 kids and mother? (I thought people had like at least 15 kids before WWII, is this a wartime/depression inspired tiny family?)
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Top left corner of the "Santa on the street with a white piano (and maybe a second piano?)" picture: it's a store's name I guess, but what does it say? Lafis? Tafis? Tafts?
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
the KUM that waterface already mentioned in that same pic (organs instead of pianos maybe?) : could be KUH or XUH too?
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah sorry, I'm repeating info other people had already noticed aren't I - meh
― StanM, Wednesday, 10 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Not a huge fan of these indoor ones if I'm being honestā€• ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:03 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
ā€• ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:03 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
heavy cosign. this isn't "Guess the Interior"
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
agree, jeez
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
I kinda like the inside ones because when I first see them I'm like "this is so crazy, but *someone* is going to figure it out"
― a (waterface), Thursday, 11 November 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Iā€™m fine with an interior as the first photo
― š¯” š¯”˛š¯”¢š¯”Ø (caek), Thursday, 11 November 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
the interiors are interesting to me because guessing at them involves different referents than the exteriors. that being said, i basically follow this thread now to look at foliage in different photos and wonder about it, so i'd be disappointed if they weren't posted as much.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
Even if you like the indoor ones (NB: you are wrong) no oneā€™s been able to guess this one and cherry blossom has apparently taken a powder.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
Which is fine, of courseā€” cherry blossom almost single-handedly keeps the thread going
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
but yeah, this is an inscrutable pic, no one has a clue.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
Feel like we've at least nailed it down to a small city in the US that had immigration from a Catholic country. (Having put all that down in black and white now it's probably all wrong!)
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
I had thought the correct guesser got to set the next challenge, but that's not the case?
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
That used to be be they way it worked, but it seems many guessers don't jump in with a new one soon enough, or at all.
― nickn, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah tbf cherry blossom's heroic efforts in starting my favourite thread and keeping it going ensure I'll cut their idiosyncrasies plenty of slack
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Those Christmas pyramids are characteristically (but not exclusively) German fwiw.
― Tim, Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
Definitely not throwing shade at cherry blossom, just that we are foundering without them lol. Hope theyā€™re just busy.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 November 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
Not sure what to make of the German origin of Christmas pyramids, as it doesn't jibe with what looks like Catholic clerical garb.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 November 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
the photo has already disappeared behind the fold in this ~8000-post thread. it's obviously stitched together from at least a few images
― Dan S, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
There are Catholic Germans, right?
― nickn, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
Yes but theyā€™re in bavaria and I think theyā€™re kind of under represented among German Americans. Fair warning Iā€™m like 80% certain thatā€™s a US outlet and catholic vestments, but I could be completely wrong.
― š¯” š¯”˛š¯”¢š¯”Ø (caek), Friday, 12 November 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/Ms4bk3X/Screenshot-2021-11-12-at-04-39-45.png
Back in the streets
― Sladoled Umbrella (cherry blossom), Friday, 12 November 2021 04:42 (two years ago) link
Wisconsin is filled with descendants of Catholic immigrants from Bavaria fwiw
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 12 November 2021 04:43 (two years ago) link
It's flat, there's a pick up truck, I'm guessing somewhere midwest
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 12 November 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link