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this is the CitΓ© Moderne, a neighborhood built in 1922-1925, by architect Victor Bourgeois:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bourgeois

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link

Tim already said that but I didn't know that was the name of the whole neighborhood

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link

ha, the first picture is about 3 clicks away from the second if you click beyond the road barrier that blocks the next road on the left.

the place all looks shabby, like the places near where i live that were built immediately after the war in the cheapest materials and pebbledashed to hide the worst of it

koogs, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link

Well done!

kinder, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link

It does look like it's in need of some looking after for sure, architecturally pretty nice though, it's been on my list of places I want to go for some years now.

Tim, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link

(So much so that I spent my lunch hour identifying modernist churches I might visit on a future trip to Brussels, I can feel a plan coming together nicely)

Tim, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link

If you turn left and go down the road a bit it seems that between 2009 and 2013 a new estate was built around the corner, in which appears to be a modern homage to the original style:
https://goo.gl/maps/U1PyfSaqjNngQTY29
https://goo.gl/maps/CfwDUnL9a2DiJaQFA

The top link is 2009, the bottom 2013. It has the same street lights but the buildings have more wood.

Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/26zZQkg/ar.png

guess

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 21 July 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link

Warrington, UK - looking towards Fiddlers Ferry Power Station (which has 8 towers but is the first google images result if you look for power station "7 towers" :-) )

https://www.google.be/maps/@53.3828828,-2.6086605,3a,75y,12.14h,83.03t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNQQlG1nwnjXj3TE2hbPXnOjvuWuOUGUbeQ9dch!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNQQlG1nwnjXj3TE2hbPXnOjvuWuOUGUbeQ9dch%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya60.99318-ro-0-fo100!7i5734!8i2867

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link

How'd you find it so quick?

nickn, Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link

I told you: I googled "power station "7 towers" " and the first result looked VERY suspiciously correct + the hills in the distance did too

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link

first result in Images

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link

and then the first aerial picture already looked like it was the right direction

https://www.google.be/maps/@53.3742371,-2.6680439,3a,75y,38.96h,86.71t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPUHszeH6erpADiR2Jk4tSuQ8ISZxIOml_Tjokg!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPUHszeH6erpADiR2Jk4tSuQ8ISZxIOml_Tjokg%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya38.014175-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096

so we need to be further back + two bridges near each other: and that was it. Lucky :-)

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link

I'd recognise Fiddler's Ferry in a heartbeat, Granadaland icon

ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link

Bit too obvious a landmark that one eh? I was going to do it pointing in the opposite direction originally

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link

I only found it via that google search, wasn't familiar with it

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link

I told you: I googled "power station "7 towers" " and the first result looked VERY suspiciously correct + the hills in the distance did too

― StanM

Oops, just skimmed your answer.

nickn, Thursday, 21 July 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link

oh no, the next one is going to be very hard now, isn't it?

StanM, Friday, 22 July 2022 05:29 (one year ago) link

yeah thanks for nothing stan!

dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link

:-(

StanM, Friday, 22 July 2022 06:21 (one year ago) link

;-)

dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2022 07:38 (one year ago) link

Why not set one yourself?

dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link

i'm not that talented imho

StanM, Friday, 22 July 2022 08:29 (one year ago) link

Ok. Newb attempt. Possibly ridiculously easy or difficult.

https://ibb.co/fpdXCS9

horizontal, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/Z8zfhJS/Bloop1.png

micah, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link

My wild guess would be Oregon or somewhere northwest. There's a tree on the right that has red flowers, which might be a clue if identified

Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link

Thanks for fixing my newb flaws, Micah.

horizontal, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link

NW seems a good initial candidate. It looks to be at the base of a hill...or part way down one

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 04:55 (one year ago) link

Pennsylvania plate?

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:00 (one year ago) link

The license plate on the truck might be Utah, which probably means they just moved from Utah, and this is a completely useless clue.

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link

Yeah, the plate itself doesn't really matter (its not PA anyway, top and bottom band take up too much space)

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:16 (one year ago) link

It looks pretty steep, from the trees and need for such a wooden structure to access the house, but you can't see much in the distance. Some humid northern climate.

Nabozo, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:35 (one year ago) link

That truck looks like a work truck (tool boxes, spray cans) rather than a moving truck.

The cars seems a bit older than I would expect in a middle class city area, so maybe outside a city in a rural area. Also, the houses are pretty modest for a "view" area.

Could be the hilly south too (Appalachia).

nickn, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 06:39 (one year ago) link

looks like the "back" of those houses--wonder what they are all facing? does look like a steep drop off

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link

Pittsburgh somewhere??? That looks like a Penna plate

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link

Definitely looks like a steep drop, hillside of some sort

That looks like a Penna plate

Aren't the bands wrong though? The blue and yellow look too thick, take up too much space

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link

yeah you're right--those are also white letters which at a quick glance it looks like PA has blue letters

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link

but it looks like maybe no states have white letters?

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link

poking around Mt Washington areas of Pittsburgh and I feel like I'm close

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link

Those houses don't look emotional enough to be Pittsburgh houses

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link

trees and smoky air look wast coast to me?

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link

I have more helpful pictures when you are ready. It seems google did the neighborhood on very different days.

horizontal, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link

AFAIK, Pennsylvania is the only state to use that color scheme in its license plates.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link

Those roofs are weird looking.

Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Thursday, 28 July 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link

Agree that the houses/cars look a bit basic and give the impression it's not a particularly well off area.

Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 28 July 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link

I'm not convinced it's even in the US.

nickn, Thursday, 28 July 2022 02:37 (one year ago) link

https://images.app.goo.gl/GnGeDMWZJVsQwEhz7

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 28 July 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link

I thought the trees might help but if you're high up a mountain that could be harder again. The not-too-modern feel of it all is making me think Costa Rica maybe? no idea though

StanM, Thursday, 28 July 2022 06:18 (one year ago) link

Puerto, not Costa

StanM, Thursday, 28 July 2022 06:19 (one year ago) link


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