Guess the City

Need something to grease these wheels

Not a huge fan of these indoor ones if I'm being honest

I feel like we haven't been able to get enough info from those three drawings/paintings of 1. a church that looks a bit like Notre Dame in Paris (two towers at one end but this one has a bigger one on the other end so it's not Notre Dame) - then below that 2. a big white castle/fort type building in the mountains and the third pic is a 3. rectangular tower + horses + something with stairs... None of this rings a clear bell with me though, no idea where/how to start searching for them.

The family photo with a way more healthy christmas tree... grandad, dad, 4 kids and mother? (I thought people had like at least 15 kids before WWII, is this a wartime/depression inspired tiny family?)

Top left corner of the "Santa on the street with a white piano (and maybe a second piano?)" picture: it's a store's name I guess, but what does it say? Lafis? Tafis? Tafts?

the KUM that waterface already mentioned in that same pic (organs instead of pianos maybe?) : could be KUH or XUH too?

Yeah sorry, I'm repeating info other people had already noticed aren't I - meh

Not a huge fan of these indoor ones if I'm being honest

― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 9:03 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

heavy cosign. this isn't "Guess the Interior"

agree, jeez

I kinda like the inside ones because when I first see them I'm like "this is so crazy, but *someone* is going to figure it out"

I’m fine with an interior as the first photo

the interiors are interesting to me because guessing at them involves different referents than the exteriors. that being said, i basically follow this thread now to look at foliage in different photos and wonder about it, so i'd be disappointed if they weren't posted as much.

Even if you like the indoor ones (NB: you are wrong) no one’s been able to guess this one and cherry blossom has apparently taken a powder.

Which is fine, of course— cherry blossom almost single-handedly keeps the thread going

but yeah, this is an inscrutable pic, no one has a clue.

Feel like we've at least nailed it down to a small city in the US that had immigration from a Catholic country. (Having put all that down in black and white now it's probably all wrong!)

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

That used to be be they way it worked, but it seems many guessers don't jump in with a new one soon enough, or at all.

Yeah tbf cherry blossom's heroic efforts in starting my favourite thread and keeping it going ensure I'll cut their idiosyncrasies plenty of slack

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

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

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

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

There are Catholic Germans, right?

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

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

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

Back in the streets

Wisconsin is filled with descendants of Catholic immigrants from Bavaria fwiw

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

"Image not found!"

the shade of blue is very characteristic of Ljubljana tho

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

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

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

Back in the streets II

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

looks a little more west (plains) than midwest tbh

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

some kind of old gas pump?

feels like nebraska

maybe kansas or one of the dakotas.

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

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

relinking the first pic:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back in the back in the streets

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

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

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