Guess the City

Good work, thought we were due an easier one (even though some really tough ones have fallen with very little resistance of late!)

ooh, nice one or something :-)

https://i.ibb.co/Y3YpCMz/Screenshot-2021-12-15-at-03-52-51.png

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US surely

The concrete brutalist-lite blocks make me think this is either a college town or a state capitol. Midwest or Rust Belt, somewhere that was urban-renewed in the 70s?

It's someplace with bleak enough weather that people wear parkas and carry an umbrella when it's that sunny outside....

English speaking based on the "keep clear at all times" sign. but the bicycle markings are puzzling me. can't decide if they mean it's a lhd country or a rhd country.

I've not seen drop curbs like that in the UK though, so I'm ruling that out.

"Keep clear at all times" just feels to me like a phrasing I see in the US

The white car in the distance seems to be driving on the right - assuming that's not a one-way street. Yes obviously a place with cold wet weather and of the six or seven people you can see, they're all white. Could it be some small city in Western US, Colorado or something

If anyone can identify the tree, that might suggest a general geographic location

Looks like a jacaranda at first glance, they are all over Brazil but also ... Australia

Wish I could figure out what sign has been removed from the wall - "Accident", "Acclaim" something something, looks to be in Helvetica or Unica or another humanist sans.

Does look like a jacaranda. Doesn't look like Australia though, unless it's some windswept corner of Melbourne docklands or something - but I think squinting at the car in the distance, it's driving on the right.

The sign might say "Adelaide" on further inspection. But that could be the Adelaide Hall or something like that.

The sign does look a bit like it might say Adelaide.

There's a red bike there that looks like it's a Vespa - not common in the US, I imagine, but I might be wrong.

44 wakefield st, adelaide, sa

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I was thinking jacaranda for the tree too, but they are common in SoCal. Could also be Canada, maybe?

lol, the address is right there above the bus stop about 10ft to the right of the picture.

the adelaide... seems to continue behind the tree, wonder what it says. and number 60 has some writing under the logo but it's too small to make out.

but, yeah, micah has mailed it

NICE
but I will claim an assist

you never lived on wakefield st matt?

Correct,

https://www.google.com/maps/place/44+Wakefield+St,+Adelaide+SA+5000,+Australia/@-34.9284499,138.6025551,3a,75y,355.23h,87.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7zyiSoeYLpo4-UHWMoVuXA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ab0ced9e28cd4bd:0x23cd4eac22eb0cbe!8m2!3d-34.9280489!4d138.60304

The text in the image says "Adelaide Police Station". Understandable that Matt only wanted to hint at knowing this, rather than revealing any direct experiential knowledge

sure

btw cherry you might be interested in https://github.com/digitaldickinson/Clean-StreetView

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I'll have a look at this later, I just remembered about it

you got me bang to rights guv'nor

there's another layer of palimpsest under the police sign, what looks like a roundel near the start of "station". it predates the earliest google picture though.

We were right that those trees are jacarandas.

https://i.ibb.co/c6S8BCJ/blerch.png

sorry but that structure is SO typical once you've seen one... Flakturm VII, Vienna

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.2260514,16.3737145,3a,75y,229.67h,95.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg_OUH5c4N3pq8juB37L_Cg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=nl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

Was gonna guess City 17.

nice one stan.

That was quick!

https://i.ibb.co/zn4xxKL/blue.png

Blue

Joni Mitchell museum

just based on the temporary construction and the "TOGETHER" : a covid vaccination center somewhere? (the one here in Mechelen, Belgium had a big "HERE WE REGAIN OUR FREEDOM" motivational banner and the Pfizer plant in Puurs, BE has a "SCIENCE WILL WIN" banner btw) (but what are the round things on the wall? overhead pics of cappuccino?)

Yellow circles on the left look like they might have an eagle on them
The O of together has a castle in it?
Patio heater has an oval logo on the sticker, looks like US politics to me
The door is tied back with something printed, the right hand one maybe ends DAS or OAS
Logo above the stair rail looks like military or emergency services

"we're all in this together" is an NHS thing isn't it?

Yeah but they would use the correct font.

I tell you whose font that is though, and that's Leicester City football club who also play in blue.

I thought maybe it was a "W" in the O of "TOGETHER", and the colors remind me of the University of Washington logo, but can't find any spot quite like it there.

I thought it was an N first, and a W would work for the same logic, but I think it might be more abstract which is why I said a castle.

Below the T and O, is that a picture of a mascot?

that thing on the right side of the white panel in the middle of picture looks like the NBA logo

fuck, left side

i think the logos on the wall are the same as the one in the O. and i thought N but W might be closer.

> is that a picture of a mascot?

a cartoon bird on the tv inside?

I don't know how temporary this corridor is - at first I thought: very, but then... that pipe top left, they cut out part of the blue wall for that - it's no longer something that can be just deconstructed & used elsewhere now

(in short: we still don't have a clue :-) )

something like... a hospital being rebuilt = this corridor is a semi-permanent construction that will be used for several years?

The big heaters make me think people aren't passing through the corridor quickly, they'd be in a slow line. I also thought vaccination center, but there would probably be markers on the floor for 6 foot distancing.

Looks like a sports or convention center facility. The flag/banner below the "TO" looks like the Pittsburg Penguins mascot, maybe this is an adjacent gym?

- I don't know what we're looking at there but I don't see a penguin in that?
- Aldo said: "The door is tied back with something printed, the right hand one maybe ends DAS or OAS" - I think I see a CAOU.. or CHOU.. ?