1. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4787801486_48a5838b40_o.jpg
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
That's one wide street. It's not Dublin, is it?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:00 (fifteen years ago)
Prague is my guess.
― Aimless, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)
Nah, gotta be anglophone - 'pianoforte warehouse', '_(o?)ttons coals'
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)
Dublin seems like a good guess. Definitely something UK connected with the Sutton's Coals, I think.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:03 (fifteen years ago)
Coal adverts on trams = North of England, maybe. Leeds?
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)
Limerick?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:06 (fifteen years ago)
I'm thinking it could be O'Connell Street looking north, though the hills at the back seem a bit high
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)
Nah, n/m don't think Limerick had trams. Prob not Dublin - what's that hill? + I bet you'd see Nelson's Column in a view of O'Connell St. Liking Ireland tho - Cork?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:14 (fifteen years ago)
yep ( big ass version with street name: http://www.histografica.com/pictures/original/o_b9trwvtk.jpg )
― StanM, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)
Cooool. I'll be a few minutes to find another one.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/O%27Connell_St.%2C_Dublin_from_Nelson%27s_Pillar%2C_1964.jpg/402px-O%27Connell_St.%2C_Dublin_from_Nelson%27s_Pillar%2C_1964.jpg
Wow, well done - I've spent the last few mins trying to decide if this view of Dublin taken from Nelson's Pillar matched up!
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)
ty - the 'sutton's coal' pointed to Ireland, & once Dublin's out there aren't too many candidates for 'large street' tbh. Or 'city'
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
Ah, I had read it as "Cotton's Coal" and google wasn't helping based on that.
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)
2. http://themidnightbell.com/tmb/image/pic%20IIsmall.jpg
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)
Dresden?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)
Warsaw
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)
(sry, bit grimmer this one. Prob should have gone for Swansea)
xp
Instant answer, yes to Ismael
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)
Woo! I thought it must be Dresden or Berlin, but iirc the centre of Dresden's right on the river and it looked too intimate to be Berlin. I know Warsaw's supposed to have a gorgeous old square, so guessed that might be it.
Will post one in a moment...
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
3
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5783/11951132.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)
New Orleans?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
It is!
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)
4http://www.oldukphotos.com/graphics/England%20Photos/Surrey,%20Guildford,%20High%20Street.jpg(doesn't look much different today actually)
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)
love this thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:53 (fifteen years ago)
I'm guessing the filename is Red Herring?
― Jarlrmai, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)
No but come on!
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)
okay guess not, guildford
― Jarlrmai, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
also says guildford in bottom left corner
love that one
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
It looks the same today - if you squint and ignore the mobile phone shops. Actually today the cobbles are a lot more uneven.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:57 (fifteen years ago)
really hasn't changed that much, has it?
xpost
― ailsa, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)
never been, but it looks pretty.
― Jarlrmai, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)
What's that thing poking out of the building in the distance on the right?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)
It's a clock.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:00 (fifteen years ago)
That's still there as well.
Google Streetview could really use a "time machine" option.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/content/images/2007/05/14/guildford_330_330x330.jpg
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)
better viewhttp://roadsofstone.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/guildford-high-street-21-april-2007.jpg
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)
I'm sure that someone is working on this, but I can't for the life of me remember where I heard about it.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
5. http://tinyurl.com/237q2yp
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
san francisco?
― 156, Monday, 12 July 2010 21:15 (fifteen years ago)
Yes. Rather obvious, I guess.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Monday, 12 July 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)
6 http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx177/tupac-chopra/1930plazaedit.jpg
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 12 July 2010 22:51 (fifteen years ago)
I posted that one of Cork and then promptly fell asleep so well done woof and thanks to Stan for confirming.I have no idea what 6 is but I would live in that tower on the left.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:15 (fifteen years ago)
Initially I thought European, but now I'm completely guessing South American and saying Buenos Airies. Amazing thread btw.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:16 (fifteen years ago)
And you're right.
7.http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4789733664_51e8b9766a_b.jpg
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:40 (fifteen years ago)
My first thought was Paris, but Buenos Aires is a great guess and it could easily be there
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:40 (fifteen years ago)
F' me! Is it seriously Buenos Aires? (Spelling, Gamaliel!) Seriously this is a punching the air in the office moment. I've never even been there, it was the statue (thinx - tin pot dictator statue, and pre-war, planned streets/modern architecture and somehow the lay-out of the park/gardens).
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:48 (fifteen years ago)
No idea, but seeing as I'm on a roll, Antwerp.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 11:49 (fifteen years ago)
This is a great thread idea but I have no idea about any of them.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 11:56 (fifteen years ago)
I got Guildford - because of the clock - but then thought it couldn't be Guildford because it's not a city
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:00 (fifteen years ago)
Not Antwerp.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:06 (fifteen years ago)
Bruges then
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:07 (fifteen years ago)
Liège
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)
Do these people look really Belgian or am I missing a clue?
(Matt DC OTM!)
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:17 (fifteen years ago)
Trieste.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:20 (fifteen years ago)
xpPresumably the crockery? But no, not anywhere in Belgium. You're all going to kick yourselves.
Not Trieste neither.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:20 (fifteen years ago)
They just didn't look English, but it was more the potteries stuff (and the chimneys in the background maybe). I was going to say Delft, but it looks like a port.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:21 (fifteen years ago)
Calais?
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:22 (fifteen years ago)
Stoke-on-trent?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)
I feel like I've misled everyone with the plates. I thought someone might recognise the tower in the left hand corner which still stands to-day.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:26 (fifteen years ago)
Found it! Islington market.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:27 (fifteen years ago)
Hard. No way I thought it was London. Hats looked wrong (based on '''intuition''' rather than knowledge that)
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:29 (fifteen years ago)
decided an hour ago to solve this. i now know about the difference between porkpie and boater hats, some of the regional variances in turn of the century european porcelain, english sugar refineries and the Molasses Act of 1733, and where to buy old fashioned ladies clothes and xpost there's the answer, super.
― rent, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:30 (fifteen years ago)
in these old photos the background always looks a like matte.
― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
Well done Woof. Yes, this is a view of the old Islington Market, and you can see the Metropolitan cattle market behind it, with the bottom of the clock tower in the distance. Another view of the cattle market - here. And what the tower looks like to-day - here.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:38 (fifteen years ago)
8http://themidnightbell.com/tmb/image/bigoldcity.jpg
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)
New York
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:43 (fifteen years ago)
constantinople?
― conrad, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:45 (fifteen years ago)
Yes - Constantinople (Istanbul also accepted)
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)
damn, was going to guess Byzantium
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:49 (fifteen years ago)
I was reading last night about how cities acquire successful football teams only by being forged through an industrial revolution - the authors' backflips to portray Istanbul as a sleepy backwater until the 1960s were quite impressive
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)
9.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/AAiHKYXA98tSslHQ58XrMQ?feat=directlink
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)
Balls.
9. http://theidiotandthedog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/city.jpg
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:03 (fifteen years ago)
God that is a lovely photo.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:05 (fifteen years ago)
That dome in the background is familiar... Berlin?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:08 (fifteen years ago)
10.
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/oldcitythread.jpg
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:09 (fifteen years ago)
#10 is Hong Kong.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:10 (fifteen years ago)
bingo!
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:10 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, got that one too
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:11 (fifteen years ago)
11. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/388892692_632112c7f7.jpg
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:12 (fifteen years ago)
(There's a picture of pretty much that exact old Hong Kong scene on our office wall)
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:13 (fifteen years ago)
Not Berlin, Matt (9. this is).
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)
12.
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/oldcity2.jpg
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/oldcity1.jpg
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)
is 9 copenhagen?
― rent, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:15 (fifteen years ago)
No.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:15 (fifteen years ago)
#13 http://lh3.ggpht.com/_L4hh04SkU5s/TDxmyepJaJI/AAAAAAAAAHI/typ4k8ilwqk/port.jpg
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:16 (fifteen years ago)
Is #9 Amsterdam?
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:58 (fifteen years ago)
9 is venice iirc
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)
9 is neither Amsterdam nor Venice (sorry, was working for a bit).
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:39 (fifteen years ago)
9: St Petersburg
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)
I almost said Moscow
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)
6 is indeed BA, btw.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
St Petersburg it is. Good stuff Ismael.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
14— http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx177/tupac-chopra/city-fire-year.jpg
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
obv it's a city that had a bit of a fire.will post a non fire one in a sec.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)
stalingrad?
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:56 (fifteen years ago)
nope (non war fire)
for 12 i was going guess Potsdam, but the second pic doesn't look like it at all.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)
No thoughts on #11?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)
12 - Dresden?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)
12 = chicago?
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:05 (fifteen years ago)
14-2—http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx177/tupac-chopra/old-city-paper.jpg
^ same city 14 years later
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)
xpost - does Chicago have that hill next to it?!
sorry, i meant 14 = chicago?
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)
And I meant 14 = Dresden!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
no, but good guess.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
some skilful photoshopping in the top left of 14
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)
14 = san francisco then? thinking north american cities with major fires.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)
although that's clearly not 14 years after 1906 or whenever it was, so not SF
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)
that's how i make the big bucks!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)
14: "dominion rubber system" is kinda giving it away, I'm afraid :-(
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)
which would make it where?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)
Toronto. Great Toronto Fire, 1904
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:10 (fifteen years ago)
second photo doesn't look 14 years after 1904 though
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:11 (fifteen years ago)
that well-known rubber system
― conrad, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)
But I just googled Dominion Rubber System and saw Toronto mentioned in a couple of links, so I googled Toronto and fire and anyway, I don't think that's really winning :-/
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)
14 = Vancouver
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)
no idea on 11, matt. trees maybe palm trees, so i'm thinking mediterranean, but not all the roofs are flat
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)
14: Toronto is right. and anyone that knows me would know i could not resist throwing my hometown up there! (it was 12 years after actually)
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)
I'm rubbish at guessing but I would like to play.
15http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f223/joegood/Image.jpg
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:14 (fifteen years ago)
any thoughts for #13 yet?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)
15 = Manila
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
13 - Somewhere in Germany or Austria?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
Well done Tom D, straight off. Apparentl the most beautiful city in SE Asia before the war.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)
13 copenhagen?
― caek, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)
15 = Manila, yaxposts
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)
13. Not Germany, Austria or Denmark...
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)
ya - it's driving me crazy
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)
Column reminds me of Glasgow (13)
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:56 (fifteen years ago)
It's not though
13: Stockholm
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)
Great thread, btw.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 16:59 (fifteen years ago)
Not Stockholm, not Glasgow!
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:03 (fifteen years ago)
If it helps, the water isn't there any more, and the monument was moved in the 30s.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)
it's not Liverpool? hardly.
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)
Funny, but that's what I initially thought
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_L4hh04SkU5s/TDxmyepJaJI/AAAAAAAAAHI/typ4k8ilwqk/port.jpg
Wait, how can the water have gone? That's not the sea?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:20 (fifteen years ago)
It may have been filled in subsequently. SF abounds w/areas built up now that used to be shallow bay waters.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:21 (fifteen years ago)
... eh? It's San Francisco?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:23 (fifteen years ago)
Hull (thanks Google!)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:24 (fifteen years ago)
(might not be Hull, but they have a statue that was moved in the 30s and I wanted to post it before anyone else did)
How in blue blazes did you google that?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:25 (fifteen years ago)
13 is indeed Hull. Top googling skills, Ailsa!
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)
But it looks so nice
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
went for a GIS on statue column moved 1930s :-)
(you'll be delighted to know I also came across a site with pictures of statues in Glasgow and Paisley which the photographer claims were taken in England...)
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
We still don't know 11, do we?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)
the hill in 12 looks like the one next to naples, but i don't think it is.
16. http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a5497ed3c6.jpg
― rent, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:30 (fifteen years ago)
I guess San Francisco would be too obvious for 16.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)
no, not sf.
― rent, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)
xps Hull still has some lovely architecture- the same view today http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Qg-hmm.jpg/446px-Qg-hmm.jpg
Unfortunately we suffered from a) the blitz, b) collapse of the fishing industry, and c) some godawful planning decisions. Would have been an amazing place around 1910.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:33 (fifteen years ago)
still can't figure out 12 either.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:37 (fifteen years ago)
12 looks South American somehow?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)
17. http://tinyurl.com/26u7o8l
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)
Is 12 Mexico City?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:43 (fifteen years ago)
11. Is this in the Middle East or on the Med?
12. South America somewhere?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:45 (fifteen years ago)
17 is Krakow
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:49 (fifteen years ago)
Ailsa's korrect
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)
tom & MW on the right track
herman melville references it
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)
12 = Panama City?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)
wrong america
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:54 (fifteen years ago)
Lima!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:56 (fifteen years ago)
yep!
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)
UGH LIMA!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)
Mind still blown by painting of Hull-by-the-Sea and photo of Toronto-in-Ashes.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)
I knew Krakow! Hurrah!
11 is still unidentified, right? Beginning to get a little confusing here.
― krakow, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)
18. http://i.imagehost.org/0870/NotmanMtlhbrfromCustomhosteamers1884.jpg
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
Halifax?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
NotmanMtlhbrfromCustomhosteamers1884.jpg = Notman Harbour, Montreal
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)
(just googled 1884 and harbour and there it is) ^_^
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
yep.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
I wouldn't have guessed at all, though.
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)
I think this may be a bit too easy.
19.http://i49.tinypic.com/1zdbx2s.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:14 (fifteen years ago)
amsterdam?
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)
Edinburgh
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
I knew Ailsa would get it.
How it looks today:
http://i45.tinypic.com/351a6a9.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)
I had been trying to find a decent picture of Edinburgh earlier, so good find, because I couldn't find any good ones at all - admittedly didn't try very hard.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)
I wouldn't have got it if you've cropped off the top of the North British hotel...
11 = Beirut! Woot! Got one!
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)
Nicked them from here, http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1167333 Cracking pic of the North British at the top of the thread.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
btw, Hull and environs is one of the few bits of the country I haven't been to before, but I think if I go now, it will be in a time machine.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
Lots to see in Hull still - it is a much maligned city.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)
(says a man from Leicester)
So...12?
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:28 (fifteen years ago)
Ah, Edinburgh! I knew it looked really familiar.
― krakow, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)
12. Rio?
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)
Wait - sorry - I meant 16? 12 was Lima, right?
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)
12 was identified as Lima a little while ago, yeah.
― krakow, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)
Assuming Beirut is right for 11 then 16 is the only one still currently open...
― krakow, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
Krakow is the first one I've known.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
Thermo guessed 16 correctly but for the wrong picture :-)
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)
20.http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4790605673_8bcc3273ca_z.jpg
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)
what did i do?
― my cock is a spiral ham (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)
Chicago for 16, then?
― krakow, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:53 (fifteen years ago)
oh - ha ha haa i see what happened! no, it's Halifax.
― my cock is a spiral ham (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)
Thermo: you said Halifax!
16 = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_explosion
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)
:-)
that Montreal shot does look an awful lot like Halifax before the explosion.
― my cock is a spiral ham (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)
20 is another great picture, but I haven't got a clue.
― StanM, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)
21. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4791535698_a2afbf1bc0_z.jpg
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)
20 has a couple of disembodied words, possibly 'Fox's' and 'Murdoch's' in adverts on the left, and 'Yankee' on the right maybe as part of a hotel sign. Fort Lauderdale?
21: Vienna?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)
11 is indeed Beirut, in the 70s.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)
is 21 Seville?
― my cock is a spiral ham (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)
21 looks like it was in Suspiria.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
21 looks a lot like the Staatsoper in Vienna
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)
22. http://i25.tinypic.com/301lg7a.jpg
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)
casablanca? (22)
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)
nope
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)
nah
― conrad, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)
I'll stick with the Hapsburg theme & throw in Budapest for 21.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)
21 is not Vienna, Seville or Budapest. I thought there was quite a good clue in the photo as to the country but now I'm not so sure.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:44 (fifteen years ago)
is the clue that the carriage appears to be on the left hand side of the street?
― 156, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 07:49 (fifteen years ago)
That's not the clue I was thinking of, but it is a clue.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:37 (fifteen years ago)
Wait hang on is #21 London? That building is insanely familiar and it's bugging me.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:44 (fifteen years ago)
road layout is suggestive of piccadilly circus but ain't no buildings like that there now iirc
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:49 (fifteen years ago)
Not London.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:51 (fifteen years ago)
Salzburg?
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:52 (fifteen years ago)
And 20 isn't Fort Lauderdale. Yankee is definitely misleading.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 08:59 (fifteen years ago)
20 is not Salzburg.
20 leeds?
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:00 (fifteen years ago)
sorry 21 leeds
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:01 (fifteen years ago)
21 Oxford
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:13 (fifteen years ago)
Not Leeds nor Oxford. Really thought someone would get this one quite quickly. The view has not altered that much. It got much worse then it got much better.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:32 (fifteen years ago)
Birmingham?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:35 (fifteen years ago)
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:45 (fifteen years ago)
but it is
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:46 (fifteen years ago)
victoria square? changed a lot
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)
I'm confused - might have guessed that earlier, but was pretty sure Victoria Square is on a slope:
http://a.imageshack.us/img706/2913/victoriasq.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:03 (fifteen years ago)
Yes, it's Brum. I don't think it's changed that much really, the space is still easily recognisable. The Council House is still there, as is Queen Victoria (although she's now bronze rather than marble). Obviously the right hand side is different. In fact what was there before these buildings was even more impressive - a church which only lasted 90 years - http://www.francisfrith.com/birmingham/photos/christ-church-1896_37276/. Quite a bit of Colmore Row (the road leading away from the Council House) remains intact.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:09 (fifteen years ago)
xp The slope was always there (see photo of church linked above) but was less pronounced when they built the Christchurch Buildings (as seen in the postcard). When they went the slope was re-instated.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:16 (fifteen years ago)
23
http://a.imageshack.us/img535/618/skylinex.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:22 (fifteen years ago)
doesn't look right for los angeles 2019.
new york?
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:32 (fifteen years ago)
(1997)
New York is sort of right - this is really just a bit of whimsy
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:37 (fifteen years ago)
here's an alternate view:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Gothamskyline.JPG/250px-Gothamskyline.JPG
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:46 (fifteen years ago)
24. http://theidiotandthedog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/city2.jpg
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:52 (fifteen years ago)
25.
http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/collections/manchester/large/7.JPG
no cheating if you've seen this photo before
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:53 (fifteen years ago)
i obviously rule at this
That's quite a photo. I'd love to have been able to cheat my way to the answer.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 10:57 (fifteen years ago)
damn would have gotten gotham
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:01 (fifteen years ago)
more old manchester/north photos: its grim, up north
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:03 (fifteen years ago)
http://a.imageshack.us/img13/3174/modernskyline.jpg
This is how 23 looks now, apparently, and is why I posted it - was disgusted to find what happens when unscrupulous developers get free rein.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:04 (fifteen years ago)
easy one, i think
26. http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2295/city5.jpg
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:07 (fifteen years ago)
Las Vegas?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:08 (fifteen years ago)
24 looks like Valletta again
So 20, 22, 24, 26 open, is that right?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:09 (fifteen years ago)
not vegas
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:10 (fifteen years ago)
26 is Dubai.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:11 (fifteen years ago)
it is
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:12 (fifteen years ago)
Not Valletta, and a tough one (perhaps), so a clue might be in order in a bit...
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:13 (fifteen years ago)
(24 this is)
24 - Sevastopol?
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:17 (fifteen years ago)
24 - Cagliari?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:18 (fifteen years ago)
No and no.
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:19 (fifteen years ago)
Dubrovnik?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:21 (fifteen years ago)
Cadiz?
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:23 (fifteen years ago)
No and no again. iirc its appearance was changed rather by a devastating naval grenade attack (and the inevitable depredations and accumulations of time obv).
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:26 (fifteen years ago)
Dubai always looks too damn hot.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:28 (fifteen years ago)
I think it is too hot in practice too.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:29 (fifteen years ago)
yeah that's what they say about england but look at them in tournaments
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:35 (fifteen years ago)
Here's another one of 20. - unlike the previous one - these buildings are still there, albeit with some alterations.http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4792574413_b0491182a1_b.jpg
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:35 (fifteen years ago)
Glasgow?
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:37 (fifteen years ago)
Sydney...
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:44 (fifteen years ago)
yeah sydney
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:47 (fifteen years ago)
leichhardt st
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:47 (fifteen years ago)
I thought it might be sydney 'cos of the daily telegraph, just been trying to find more evidence.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:47 (fifteen years ago)
looks a lot like present day newtown, but with fewer lesbians
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:48 (fifteen years ago)
no results for "clichhapot st" or similar but "waverley" below that gives it away slightly.
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:49 (fifteen years ago)
24 - Genoa?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
27
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/oldcity.jpg
very easy, especially if you know your history of photography
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:37 (fifteen years ago)
paris!
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)
24 is indeed Genoa.
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:41 (fifteen years ago)
yep xp - one of the first exposure daguerre ever made iirc (notice that although it was taken on a busy street on an afternoon, only the shoe shiner and his client remained stationary long enough to be captured by the exposure)
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:42 (fifteen years ago)
cool daguerrotype.
ok 28
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Antwerpia/pages/118-Leystraat/118-Leystraat-q75-800x600.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:43 (fifteen years ago)
Yesss on 24! Just spent way too long learning about bombardments then trying to match the image to this.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:46 (fifteen years ago)
28 Brussels?
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:47 (fifteen years ago)
brussels?
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:48 (fifteen years ago)
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:48 (fifteen years ago)
antwerp?
just guessing belgian
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:49 (fifteen years ago)
because of eddy merckx
antwerp is right!
29
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/SewardTravels/pages/626-Jaffa/626-Jaffa-835x537.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)
(probably quite difficult that one. clue: founded in 18th century BCE)
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:51 (fifteen years ago)
Essaouira?
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:52 (fifteen years ago)
30
http://themidnightbell.com/tmb/image/somewhere.jpg
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:53 (fifteen years ago)
29 not Essaouira
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 12:56 (fifteen years ago)
haha essaouira
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)
27 is amazing, I love that about everything being deleted by the long exposure
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:10 (fifteen years ago)
another img of 29
http://transparentthings.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bwview-to-old-jaffa.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:12 (fifteen years ago)
looks like a mark kozelek album cover
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)
30 is going to have me finding out things about policmen's uniforms isn't it? Amsterdam feels way off beam, but I'm going for it.
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:14 (fifteen years ago)
30 moscow?
29, I dunno, Syracuse?
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:15 (fifteen years ago)
lettering in 30 is cyrillic i think
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:15 (fifteen years ago)
29 is Jaffa, right?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:15 (fifteen years ago)
boom. yes, 29 = jaffa.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:16 (fifteen years ago)
Right, colleagues were beginning to look at me pressing my nose up against my monitor so the fine details are escpaing me atm.
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:17 (fifteen years ago)
30's not Moscow, not Amsterdam.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)
Is 30 Valetta?
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:23 (fifteen years ago)
30 Budapest?
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)
30 st petersburg?
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:26 (fifteen years ago)
31.
http://www.squareamerica.com/search/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ar35.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
Not Valetta (caek's right - there is some Cyrillic signage), Budapest or Petersburg.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
30. Yalta?
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:33 (fifteen years ago)
31 Atlantic City apparently...
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:42 (fifteen years ago)
what are the strange vehicles btw?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)
30 not Yalta.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:48 (fifteen years ago)
hint for 22: it's had a name change relatively recently
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:50 (fifteen years ago)
22 is Mumbai then?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:56 (fifteen years ago)
Yup, 31's Atlantic City.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 13:57 (fifteen years ago)
22 = Chennai?
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)
yes!
http://www.pkp.in/gh/pictures/India%20Pictures/Old%20Madras%20Chennai/Chennai%20Parrys%20Corner-1890.jpg
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 14:06 (fifteen years ago)
yep, nice one
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 14:34 (fifteen years ago)
Is 30 Sofia? Cyrillic lettering plus they've had streetcars there since the turn of the century.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)
Jeez how can ppl possibly know what all these cities are?? How do I educate myself here?
― the aztec mystic pizza (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)
Not Sofia - one clue might be that there's a sign in both Cyrillic and Roman.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)
Kiev?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
Riga?
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)
Gratz to caek - it's Riga
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)
i have my world map shower curtain to thank for knowing about the madras/chennai name change. then i looked on google maps for a spot along the seafront with a port + railway in front the buildings, "parry's corner" looked a likely candidate, confirmed with GIS.
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)
is 30 Kiev?
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:22 (fifteen years ago)
too late... grr
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)
32.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol2/pages/188-The-Tower-of-London/188-The-Tower-of-London-q85-833x688.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)
q85?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:26 (fifteen years ago)
Looks like the keep of the Tower of London
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/4092537246_4b2861d824.jpg
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)
still the same, was hoping the fields would throw people off
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)
The moat did, kind of, but I knew the tower goes back quite a ways.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)
33.
http://bleedingheartshow.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/park-hill-flats.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)
(tip: upload the picture to a site that renames it)
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)
tip: don't look at the URLs
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)
34. Possibly not a great one for this thread but I liked the pic, so:http://a.imageshack.us/img251/6619/ohhait.jpg
(filename is meaningless as I badly photoshopped out some text and called it "ohhai", then imageshack felt moved to add another letter on)
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:39 (fifteen years ago)
somewhere in ohhai-o?
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
usu click view image in case it's been resized xposts
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
use caek.css -- no image resizing!
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
ha ok maybe
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)
i'm often saving the image to zoom in etc
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)
34. Colombo
― postcards from the (ledge), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)
― Jarlrmai, 14 July 2010 15:46 (3 minutes ago
me too
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)
impossible not to when you have images turned off
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:50 (fifteen years ago)
ledge is correct, 34 is Colombo. At that time the tower was a working lighthouse as well as a clocktower; it is still a working clock.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/20905696
(could've picked a less obviously lighthousey one, as it seems not to have been painted 20 years earlier, but then we might have been here all year)
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:51 (fifteen years ago)
33. is Sheffield - the Park Hill flats - being done up by Urban Splash right this minute.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:03 (fifteen years ago)
Why would you look at this thread with images turned off?
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)
cause i'm not about to change my settings for each thread?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)
35.http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/8295/city6.jpg
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)
Park Hill flats now, incidentally.http://www.flickr.com/photos/drawmeamonkey/sets/72157624239005268/with/4685160445/
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)
xpost: Can I see "office - Patterson ??????ing Co" ?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, it's a googleable detail, though you're not there on the middle world - got it but withdrawing, because I wasn't in any sort of range.
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:14 (fifteen years ago)
Patterson Transfer Co, which Google tells me makes this Memphis
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:16 (fifteen years ago)
ned correct on 33. people with images turned off: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134336/focus=134979
― caek, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.memphisflyer.com/AskVanceBlog/archives/2009/11/23/the-memphis-riverfront-in-the-early-1900s
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)
Ah, that's not a beach! OK, I was way off.
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)
Haha - I thought that was a beach!
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:19 (fifteen years ago)
...too!
and that's cotton in the foreground, apparently.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/images/blogimages/2009/11/23/thumb-1259035633-cobblestones-today.jpg
― rent, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:21 (fifteen years ago)
Wow, the cobblestones still there. And some of the buildings.
― i find music confusing and annoying (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)
36. http://i.imagehost.org/0089/pic.jpg
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)
the world of tomorrow
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:42 (fifteen years ago)
Mmm. 36 has a vaguely New Yorkish feel.
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)
gotta say new york, is it?
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:51 (fifteen years ago)
not New York
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)
But that thing in the lower left corner is sti... ooooooooooooh. Manhattan? :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)
philly?
― 156, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:57 (fifteen years ago)
wherever it is, it *really* wants to look like downtown manhattan
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
It's not a city, it's a zeppelin! (?)
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
shit my bad... that is New York.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
lol
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
Its of the USS Los Angeles, and the first site I found it on incorrectly identified it as flying over LA.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
Phew. I was looking for secret and exact copies of Manhattan in some communist jungle somewhere :-/
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)
hahaha
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)
I think this is a little tougher than the other two I posted.
37.http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2765/4081752076_aa9cef1eeb_o.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
Newcastle?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
So much for being harder.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
― my cock is a spiral ham (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)
Ha, sorry - it was the bridge, I've seen it from that point of view so many times. Also the fact that you can't see a river, there can't be many cities built on a gorge that deep.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)
38.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f223/joegood/27020033pq5.jpg
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)
Creditul sounds eastern-european (Dracul etc), but Carlton? A westernized eastern european city?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)
Bucharest?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)
Bucharest is correct.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:45 (fifteen years ago)
Damn, late.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)
39. http://www.old-picture.com/europe/pictures/straight-called.jpg
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)
Stab in the dark - Marrakesh?
Excellent pic, BTW
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
Nope
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:50 (fifteen years ago)
If I went to Marrakesh and found that, I'd feel somewhat cheated
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)
Er.. Tangiers?
(I might as well just go through North African cities)
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)
think i went there in assassin's creed.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)
I miss Marrakech
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:52 (fifteen years ago)
Oops sorry chap, I thought you were guessing Marrakesh for no.38
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:58 (fifteen years ago)
That tower in the distance looks extremely minimalist and modern, so it's probably very very very very old - Babylon? Jericho? Jerusalem?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:59 (fifteen years ago)
Got to be Andalucia I reckon - Jerez?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:01 (fifteen years ago)
Stan getting closer
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)
Damascus!
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)
Yup
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)
wow!
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
40. http://tinyurl.com/2ansokn
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
bukhara
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
Yes
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)
41.http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4347/c1850.jpg
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)
Paris?
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
Cologne?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
Milan?
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)
Looks kinda French to me.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:36 (fifteen years ago)
MW otm! Thought that might last a bit longer, as while it shows Cologne's most famous landmark, it's from the decades before they added the current most recognisable bit, 630 years after building work originally started.
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)
It looks German and looks Rheinisch and I figured it might be from before the present cathedral.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)
42. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/shnoop.jpg
The windows on the left look like Glasgow tenements.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:43 (fifteen years ago)
It's not Glasgow
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
Those tenements on left look Scottish.
xposts
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
Aberdeen?
43. http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/flakda.jpg
hint you might not have gotten otherwise: it's in Asia...
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)
42: I somehow thought about San Francisco (steep bit, horizontal bit, steep bit - where the cable car trams drive nowadays) ?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:48 (fifteen years ago)
chap and Ailsa, it's not even in the UK.
Stan, closer
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago)
yeah 42 made me think of SF too. definitely America
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
The distant hill is worth thinking about.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)
I wasn't necessarily set on it being the UK, just that wherever it is shares an architectural style with Glasgow.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:53 (fifteen years ago)
Hill? Beverly?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)
Closer
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)
Oakland?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)
Further
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)
The clouds look like they were painted in, like they used to do on movie posters - so... Hollywoodhill?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)
I'm trying to think of other Cali cities that would have had that level of development at that time besides SF and LA... San Diego?
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)
Should we recognize any of the buildings btw?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:05 (fifteen years ago)
it is LA, isn't it?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)
This what it looks like now
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)
oh so it IS LA
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
It's kind of mind-bogggling
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)
(extra 'g' for emphasis)
Did you mean:1st Main Rd, Kilpauk, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India1st Main Rd, A Rajarathinam Colony, Washermanpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India1 Main Rd, Yelahanka New Town, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, that intrigued, me too, dyao
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)
It's weird that even though LA grew organically into a dense urban area in the beginning, when it exploded into the sub-urban and semi- (as opposed to the 'suburban') development it is now, they abandoned downtown to blight and governmment buildings for so many years that it's simply unrecognizable.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)
dyao i'm gonna guess 43 is shenzen, just for the hell of it
― 156, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)
you're in the right country. I've included a pretty obvious landmark...
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)
the wall is/was really that high??
― 156, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)
Beijing?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)
44. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/cp.jpg?t=1279142846
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)
yep 156 I have pictures from walking on top of it!
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)
I'll take that as a no to Beijing.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)
it IS kind of mind-bogggling
all those buildings gone to open space even if it includes that nice morphosis building behind
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)
yeah it's not Beijing, MW - Beijing's section of the Great Wall is located about an hour outside the city (and the wall pictured is not part of the Great Wall)
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)
Nanjing?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
45. http://lh6.ggpht.com/_L4hh04SkU5s/TD4xZ6LA_2I/AAAAAAAAAHo/n0P76TsgVaY/city.jpg
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
Amsterdam
― Major Lolzer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)
wow, apparently it's liverpool!
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
Which is Liverpool? Not 45 surely?
Was going to guess Zurich for 44.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/artsea/paintings/liverpoolviews/liverpool.aspx
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:01 (fifteen years ago)
yep, it's Liverpool, in 1680!
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)
Is 43 Shanghai?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)
tom correct - Nanjing
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Wall_of_Nanjing
Wow, cool.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)
Nope, but not terribly far away.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)
great thread.
46. http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/lol-1.jpg
and
47. http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/lol2.jpg
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)
47's Glasgow
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)
ok 46 is a bit tricky, but 47 is fairly easy.
xp. haha, i knew it was easy. greek thomson a bit distinctive tbh.
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)
Also about two minutes walk away from the Brazen Head :-)
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)
Is 44 Berne, then?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)
46 reeks of Italy
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:37 (fifteen years ago)
Not in Switzerland.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)
Or of the Med, at least.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:39 (fifteen years ago)
it is the med. it isn't italy, although it's not unrelated.
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:41 (fifteen years ago)
Siracusa?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)
no, not anywhere situated geographically in the modern-day state of italy.
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)
Ajaccio?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)
Marseilles?
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)
east rather than west of italy.
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)
Zara?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)
Split?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:53 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, it's Split.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, i was reading about diocletian on wikipedia when i started reading this thread!
― Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)
I wasn't that far off then.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
I miss split
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)
48. http://i32.tinypic.com/10eriw6.jpg
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)
denver?
― 156, Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:45 (fifteen years ago)
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)
is it in south america?
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)
si
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:57 (fifteen years ago)
santiago?
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:03 (fifteen years ago)
Do you know when that picture was taken? Santiago looks amazingly charming there!
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)
It does. 1930.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 04:18 (fifteen years ago)
49. http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2986021.jpg
50. http://i28.tinypic.com/6du6bo.jpg
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 04:49 (fifteen years ago)
49 in South Africa?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 15 July 2010 07:54 (fifteen years ago)
49 is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 15 July 2010 08:04 (fifteen years ago)
44 feels austrian
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://i28.tinypic.com/33cxlqd.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:13 (fifteen years ago)
Is 50 New York?
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:22 (fifteen years ago)
or Atlanta?
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:36 (fifteen years ago)
re 49, GISs for ridiculous statue, stupid statue, bad statue, not helping much.
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:41 (fifteen years ago)
"Dirgantara Statue or usually called Patung Pancoran [...], is a muscular human with the head of a monkey and with one hand reaching to the sky. The legendary figure portrayed is Hanuman, the monkey god from the Ramayana epic, whose supernatural powers enabled him to fly. This ability was taken to symbolize the power of the Indonesian Air Force to conquer the skies."
― postcards from the (ledge), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:43 (fifteen years ago)
Jakarta btw
Yeah, I'd seen it before, just not that old picture - remembered the general Malaysia/Philippines/Thailand kind of area.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:49 (fifteen years ago)
50: finding nothing, but those uniforms... Red coats, black hats - 1750-1800 kinda period?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:16 (fifteen years ago)
50 London?
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:17 (fifteen years ago)
50 = Washington, DC?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:18 (fifteen years ago)
I'm looking for something where the British redcoats fought someone else, about 1750-1800.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:19 (fifteen years ago)
Yes, bit early for Washington DC
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:21 (fifteen years ago)
It's been rebuilt!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3571874639_f99bbd1ba6.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:23 (fifteen years ago)
Montréal, scene of the final battle of the Seven Years' War in 1760
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:24 (fifteen years ago)
Nice research skillz
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:25 (fifteen years ago)
Quebec?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:25 (fifteen years ago)
Thank you, popular period movies containing those uniforms! :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:26 (fifteen years ago)
xpost: right! church is the Notre-Dame Des Victoires in Basse-Ville, Quebec city -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QuebecCitySum04.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:30 (fifteen years ago)
So Montreal was wrong. :-(
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:31 (fifteen years ago)
which pics haven't been guessed yet?
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:37 (fifteen years ago)
51. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/oldtown1850-1.jpg
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:00 (fifteen years ago)
Stockholm!
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:22 (fifteen years ago)
? possibly, not so sure now
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:23 (fifteen years ago)
oh, yeah it is.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:26 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, you're right.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:27 (fifteen years ago)
hasn't changed much tbh. when was the painting from?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:27 (fifteen years ago)
Just 44?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:27 (fifteen years ago)
It is recognisable isn't it? It's from 1850, I think. xp
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:29 (fifteen years ago)
52. http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/oldtown21850.jpg
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 11:36 (fifteen years ago)
Nice hat.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:10 (fifteen years ago)
Salamanca?
― tetrahedron of space (woof), Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:21 (fifteen years ago)
44 is in France, to give a big hint.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 14:19 (fifteen years ago)
44 - Nice?
meanwhile,
53.http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6709/1208462239zl9.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 July 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)
53. munich?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
Not Munich.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:07 (fifteen years ago)
44 - Not Nice.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
53 looks American to me, East Coast. New York? Philly? Somehwere in the South?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)
statue on top of building looks v. german, but the porches do look american.
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)
German statue, American porches...Milwaukee? Man I suck at guessing.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)
53 isn't American. Not much of a clue but the building in the centre is a railway station.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)
It is now a highway. :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:26 (fifteen years ago)
I thought it was a station and the one it brought immediately to mind was Milan. Would be amazed if that was it though.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:30 (fifteen years ago)
tree on the far left is italian-looking
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)
Direbbe un tasso
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)
54. http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/pershingsq.JPG
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:27 (fifteen years ago)
Los Angeles
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:28 (fifteen years ago)
yup
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Thursday, 15 July 2010 17:29 (fifteen years ago)
Surprised nobody gets 53 - I've seen it being mentioned as one of the most beautiful train stations in Europe (before it was demolished by the communists) on Dutch TV a while ago.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)
oops - googling part of that sentence will get you the result, sorry :-(
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)
Thanks for the v. googleable clue, StanM - it's Prague.
xpost lol
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)
(googled beautiful train station destroyed by communists)
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/city_hall/many_praguers_never_got_over_the_loss.html
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)
http://czechmatediary.com/2010/04/25/communists-tore-down-the-most-beautiful-station-in-central-europe/
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)
and a better look at the statue at the top, that reminded people of Berlin:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8879/hlavni20budovail5.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)
Nicely spotted Stan, is indeed Prague.
55.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/39611.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:53 (fifteen years ago)
First instinct was: some grim industrial British city - but those balconies on the right look too fancy.Is that wordt on the ledge just left of the lamp post "terrace" ?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 18:59 (fifteen years ago)
sydney?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:02 (fifteen years ago)
it's a british colony somewhere hot (shutters on windows) and the lattice work balconies are sydney-ish
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)
Yup, caek's got it.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)
A+!
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)
I was wondering if the marks on the right wall were brickwork or chinese characters in chalk :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Troms%C3%B8_1900.jpg/800px-Troms%C3%B8_1900.jpg
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)
that's 56 btw
57) http://www.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/658.jpg
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
that's definitely leicester
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)
Nice to see there'll still be a place for grafitti (bottom right corner: Paul was here!)
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:13 (fifteen years ago)
56... Heidelberg?
― sofatruck, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
Those mountains would be crazy steep for Heidelberg, imo
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:22 (fifteen years ago)
see what you're thinking re: heidelberg, but no. that's not just a big river.
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)
URL a clue? :-)
― ailsa, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)
Big lake? Italy/Alps?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)
I'm trying not to look at URLs anymore but ok, Fjords make sense.
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)
Should I just tell what 44 is?
caek is 56 in Scandanavia?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)
57 is the reverse look from 36 : Manhattan looking up at that Zeppelin!
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)
44 could be any old big french city, IMO - building is too typical to be "oh, that's x's city hall!" I think :-/
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)
44 brussels?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)
No, it's French.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)
56 is scandanavia, ja
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)
lyon?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
^^^
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
bam!
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)
I was thinking 57 would be Park Avenue looking south. New York's featured a lot on this thread already, but where else is Popular Science Monthly 1925 going to use as its big draw?
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)
58.
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/a2126b08453aebd2_landing
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)
Austrian/German/Swiss?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)
none of those
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:45 (fifteen years ago)
stockholm?
― 156, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
Looks like it could be American?
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
I thought 56 might be Lillehammer at first, but it's more likely to be Tromso? Definitely Norway.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
56 is tromso, yes
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)
another of 57
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/722b97fa07ff1042_landing
58. Czech?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)
Damn! I looked up Tromso and saw nothing remotely like it.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:55 (fifteen years ago)
sorry that was another of 58, not 57
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)
not czech
58 again
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/464cfbd77ee98794_landing
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)
What a weird photo!
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
Pennsylvania?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)
no, but closer
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)
There's a tower/monument kinda thing just above space between the 2nd and 3rd ladies but I don't recognize it
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)
Maybe New England somewhere?
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)
yes. final one:
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/b888299148e85e77_landing
clue: this photo was taken in 1963
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:01 (fifteen years ago)
Newport?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)
nope!
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)
putting empty bottles behind the front door -> fear of burglars/serial killer?serial killer + 1963 = boston strangler?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)
Boston?
― sofatruck, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)
yay! the BU girls wish you congrats!
http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/e542c7e98b82adc6_landing
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)
Wow, so the picture of the tophats / swimsuits is on Boston Common?!
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)
that first one is so weird and european. only the cars reveal it is the US.
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)
#58 brought to you by the picture archive of Life magazine:
http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=boston+source:life
I don't know, looks like Boston to me -- Beacon Hill maybe?
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)
If people are stuck with #52, here it is again with more of the tower:
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/oldtown21850-1.jpg http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/oldtown_tower_c1850.jpg
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)
Not much has changed either.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)
Barcelona
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)
It definitely looks Moorish influenced, like Spain or Portugal, unless it's Turkish influenced...
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)
Not Barcelona...
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)
Porto?
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)
Pretty sure it's Valencia.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)
Correct.
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/valencia.jpg
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)
59. http://i25.tinypic.com/262tvtl.jpg
― 156, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)
Is that a Chinese junk? (Fishing boat)
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)
singapore?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)
no but on the right track
― 156, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)
Some of the hats look chinese as well, but the buildings don't - a port city that did a lot of business with china?
― StanM, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)
Taipai?
― sofatruck, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:34 (fifteen years ago)
not hong kong?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)
macau!
― circles, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:39 (fifteen years ago)
hong kong's the closest yet. here's 59.2.
http://i30.tinypic.com/11wdoy8.jpg
haha MACAU IT IS NICE WORK CIRCLES
― 156, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)
60. http://www.ansichtskartenserver.de/shop/ak/24/2400457.jpg
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:41 (fifteen years ago)
stratford on avon?
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:42 (fifteen years ago)
buttresses don't look english though
― caek, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:43 (fifteen years ago)
Another picture from 60.
http://www.ansichtskartenserver.de/shop/ak/25/2508303.jpg
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)
It's not Stratford, caek
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)
I'd guess German but struggling to think where.
― Tim, Friday, 16 July 2010 13:40 (fifteen years ago)
Where was 57?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 16 July 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)
Mr. Shasta hasn't disclosed that information yet.
― StanM, Friday, 16 July 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)
60: I'm confused. Through GISing some combination of fachwerk / half-timber / palace / schloss / mock-Tudor / German (I forget which) the building seems to be the Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam. But I can't confirm that with a picture of a baroque interior matching the one above (there seem to be similar interiors in another - older - palace in Potsdam but nothing I have seen matches exactly). This makes me think I've just found a similar half-timbered building and jumped to conclusions.
A tentative Potsdam?
― Tim, Friday, 16 July 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)
i'm sure i've seen 60 before
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)
xp Tim's answer checks out I think
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:24 (fifteen years ago)
Yes, Tim, Potsdam. Cecilienhof and a room in Sanssouci Palace.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Friday, 16 July 2010 14:45 (fifteen years ago)
61. http://i.imagehost.org/0193/f.jpg
― sofatruck, Friday, 16 July 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)
Letters on the building to the right are JUST unreadable. :-/OSLERHUMM...OSTERHIMM...OSTEAHIMM...USTERHIMM...???
― StanM, Friday, 16 July 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)
Osler, Hammond and Nanton seems to have been a financial company from Ontario?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Friday, 16 July 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)
so, ottowa?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Friday, 16 July 2010 15:16 (fifteen years ago)
not Ottawa
not in Ontario.
― sofatruck, Friday, 16 July 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)
Felt like we were on the right track there.
― StanM, Friday, 16 July 2010 15:19 (fifteen years ago)
Winnipeg?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Friday, 16 July 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)
This has to be the same building?
http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/WinnipegBuildings/showBuilding.jsp?id=788
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Friday, 16 July 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)
Yep. Winnipeg. Canada's Chicago for a time.
― sofatruck, Friday, 16 July 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)
Have you guys seen this http://www.historypin.com/, a little sparse at the moment but given time this could be great.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Friday, 16 July 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)
Promising! Could become the alternative to this:
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, July 12, 2010 11:01 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark
― StanM, Friday, 16 July 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)
this one's really easy, yeah?
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color052.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1280349527
― dyao, Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)
Chicago. nice pic.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)
yep! shoulda used this one
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color047.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1280414823
from the same series (diff city)
63. http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color043.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1280414823http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-125171/cache/color044.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG?1280414823
― dyao, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:47 (fifteen years ago)
Detroit! New Center.
― Kickboyface, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)
Washington DC
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)
^^^^
― dyao, Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:59 (fifteen years ago)
(how'd you know?)
― dyao, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
googlin', would have been pretty much impossible otherwise
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)
(and I did a project on the history of the demolition and renewal of SW DC!)
64.http://i27.tinypic.com/dm7mfb.jpg
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)
Ah-ha! I think I found it - Berlin 1946.
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)
right continent, right decade
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)
Okay, for some reason it turned up in a GIS for "Berlin 1946". But I think it's actually Rotterdam?
― Falkor Johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:28 (fifteen years ago)
Rotterdam it is!
― I DIED, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/city1850.jpg
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:07 (fifteen years ago)
I've been there, can't remember where it is though.
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)
that's odeonsplatz, munich
― caek, Thursday, 29 July 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
Yes.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)
Ok, slightly different one (shame I haven't got the scans from a book I've got, much better) -
http://theidiotandthedog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/city4.jpg
The description to this says it has 40,000 residents at its heighth, but they're wrong here - actually when it reached this level of pop. it was already well into its decline.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:31 (fifteen years ago)
Uh, 66?
66. Mohenjo Daro
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)
Indeed.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)
Astonishing plumbing.
That looks like the granary/great bath
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)
Must admit I can't work out the plan from that pic. (Been a while since I looked at it). Not actually sure where the granary is tbh.
― Hide the prickforks (GamalielRatsey), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.mohenjodaro.net/images/greatbathgranary23.jpg
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
Bam, Iran?
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Friday, 30 July 2010 06:24 (fifteen years ago)
No, it's another photo of what Gamliel posted
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)
I know this one! Mohenjo Daro! :-)
― StanM, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:04 (fifteen years ago)
Tu n'as pas tort, Stan.
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)
67.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/cop.jpg?t=1280527793
Once associated with great luxury, btw.
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, 30 July 2010 22:14 (fifteen years ago)
(Oops)
― Un peu d'Eire, ça fait toujours Dublin (Michael White), Friday, 30 July 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)
Lydia?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 31 July 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)
68.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/5815814308_6a16052810_b.jpg
― caek, Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)
San Francisco?
― sofatruck, Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:28 (fourteen years ago)
no
― caek, Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:32 (fourteen years ago)
hong kong?
― carstens, Sunday, 12 June 2011 22:55 (fourteen years ago)
― caek, Sunday, 12 June 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)
i'm going to say Chicago, for some reason those guys on the roof scream chicago at me
― Sshhh... mum's up (Ste), Monday, 13 June 2011 09:19 (fourteen years ago)
ok it's admittedly a v difficult one. it's southern hemisphere.
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 09:55 (fourteen years ago)
sao paulo? amazing photo anyway.
― joe, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:47 (fourteen years ago)
Buenos Aires?
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:48 (fourteen years ago)
Johannesburg? It reminds me of a Continental ad filmed there. Beautiful photo anyway.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:50 (fourteen years ago)
yes, sao paulo
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:51 (fourteen years ago)
its a great photo, my new desktop wallpaper in fact because my icons fit perfectly in a vertical formation on the left with the road.
― Sshhh... mum's up (Ste), Monday, 13 June 2011 10:52 (fourteen years ago)
massive version if anyone wants it http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmcnab/5815814308/sizes/l/in/photostream/
― caek, Monday, 13 June 2011 10:53 (fourteen years ago)
69.
http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/guesguesgues_zps6ade6fbd.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:47 (twelve years ago)
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:58 (twelve years ago)
Weirdly close to Harvard Square! But it isn't...
― bentelec, Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:00 (twelve years ago)
Neither of those. Not sure if this has any dead-giveaway identifying marks, just stumbled on it and figured the thread was due for a revive...
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 March 2013 19:01 (twelve years ago)
Los Angeles?
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Friday, 15 March 2013 00:40 (twelve years ago)
cincinnati
― In The Magical Breasts of Britney Spears, Van Cleave makes unforgettabl (Matt P), Friday, 15 March 2013 00:43 (twelve years ago)
Getting closer!
― bentelec, Friday, 15 March 2013 02:09 (twelve years ago)
yup, just go for it bentelec!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 15 March 2013 15:40 (twelve years ago)
http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/guesguesgues2_zps459a87b3.jpg
just to make it more of a dead giveaway....
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 15 March 2013 15:41 (twelve years ago)