Guess the City

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!)

I had thought the correct guesser got to set the next challenge, but that's not the case?

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.

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

Those Christmas pyramids are characteristically (but not exclusively) German fwiw.

Definitely not throwing shade at cherry blossom, just that we are foundering without them lol. Hope they’re just busy.

Not sure what to make of the German origin of Christmas pyramids, as it doesn't jibe with what looks like Catholic clerical garb.

the photo has already disappeared behind the fold in this ~8000-post thread. it's obviously stitched together from at least a few images

There are Catholic Germans, right?

Yes but they’re in bavaria and I think they’re kind of under represented among German Americans.

Fair warning I’m like 80% certain that’s a US outlet and catholic vestments, but I could be completely wrong.

https://i.ibb.co/Ms4bk3X/Screenshot-2021-11-12-at-04-39-45.png

Back in the streets

Wisconsin is filled with descendants of Catholic immigrants from Bavaria fwiw

It's flat, there's a pick up truck, I'm guessing somewhere midwest

"Image not found!"

the shade of blue is very characteristic of Ljubljana tho

There are lots of catholics in Germany outside Bavaria, especially in the west of the country, not that that makes much difference to the likelihood of this being a specifically German exhibit / museum.

I don't know why the image isn't showing. It was at first, maybe I deleted by mistake and it cached. I'll put it up again shortly

https://i.ibb.co/p0WFwNJ/p.png

Back in the streets II

Small Railroad town in the US Midwest, but that’s all I got. And I’ve been to a lot of small town historical museums with a display like the first image.

looks a little more west (plains) than midwest tbh

I'm trying to understand what I'm looking at on the right, between the tree and our location?

some kind of old gas pump?

feels like nebraska

maybe kansas or one of the dakotas.

Seems like many medium-sized midwestern towns have a historical museum with displays similar to the first pic.

the picture's above the fold now so i can't verify without loading this insanely huge thread but iirc it sure looks similar to The American Historical Society of Germans From Russia in Lincoln, NE

relinking the first pic:

https://i.ibb.co/M8MfYwJ/cmas.jpg

2nd pic: there's a sign in the distance with a longish word on it but it's too small to read - other than that... No idea? Are all the buildings very low because they're near an airport?

In the first pic I’m looking at the photo of a street scene that seems to be labelled “[-illegible-] music store Santa.” Next
To the music store on one side there is a sign that could say Taft’s and in the other one a sign that might say Kuhn.

There’s an old theatre in Lebanon,OR called Kuhn’s, but there was also a chain of “variety stores” called Kuhn’s that started in Columbia,TN that was a precursor to Big-K so this gets me nowhere.

2nd pic: there's a sign in the distance with a longish word on it but it's too small to read - other than that... No idea? Are all the buildings very low because they're near an airport?

we're on a road that's going up -> a bridge over something that ends in H ?

(nope - the name of the river is on a green sign with white letters in North America)

https://i.ibb.co/zxYxgt8/ara.jpg

Back in the back in the streets

I don't know if this will point the right way but:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/549+N+Harrison+St,+Davenport,+IA+52803,+USA/@41.5251595,-90.5789161,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x87e2349bf7cc63ff:0x1115893076e96c4d!8m2!3d41.5251555!4d-90.5767274

(Davenport, Iowa). Now to find the indoor place...

Aha! https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5214872,-90.583515,3a,75y,172.51h,90t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya95.375145-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

yay! nice one

ngl, it has been an ambition of mine to get one of these one day!

How did you find it? Are you familiar with Davenport?

nope, I googled 11'8 bridge and it turns out there's a really famous one in North Carolina, but it's not the one in the picture.
Then I googled "overheight vehicle route" and found a Flickr picture of it! so I got lucky for sure.

An unexpected route to it for sure. Surprised this one took so long!

There are some places that I don't "get" because why would I want to even think about that place, and Davenport, IA, is one of them. What an absolute pit.

well done though

so the sign in the Santa/street/piano picture says "Gifts" - and it's "Schmitt ??? - ??? Santa" - meanwhile, the family pic is "German Family Christmas" and the three landscape/tower drawings aren't labeled.

https://www.google.be/maps/@41.5214872,-90.583515,3a,41.1y,186.89h,76.73t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya283.5709-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

and it's a Santa costume, no famous pope/cardinal

Gifts, omg.

This one was wild

how the hell did you end up in a place like this, cherry blossom? :-)

the costume looks more like Saint Nicholas though - who comes with gifts on December 6th here in Belgium and looks/sounds suspiciously like Santa Claus (Sint Nicholas -> Sint Nikolaas -> Sinterklaas / Santa Claus)

https://i.ibb.co/kHjf8zR/orph.jpg

I think the vertical KUM might be EUM as port of RKO Orpheum (which is todays Adler)

Haha I was wrong about more or less everything so I am likely wrong about this too but I’m clinging on to this being Schmitts Music Store Santa.