Guess the City

guess the obscure town

https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.1315767,150.7461552,3a,75y,35.34h,81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPZfPrJHkYOs1ogbwnkXb7A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

For anyone curious about the original view, it was over here a few streets away on the other side of the city

it's not a city!

those multi storey apartment buildings have thrown me off - I've only looked at big cities because of those

https://i.ibb.co/qWdYJwQ/Screenshot-2021-12-13-at-12-06-32.png

Playground

let's ask matttkkkk first - Matt? :-)

100% not Queensland

Thank you Matt! :-)

church spire, bridge with Roman arches, a row of similar looking houses... England? France?

Is it a city?

Looks like England anyway

It looks like South East London to me, maybe looking South(ish) from the big lump that is Forest Hill / Sydenham Hill towards Catford? Can't find the relevant basketball court and wouldn't have expected lewisham to aint things orange anyway so either its a non-municipal court (eg a school or something) or it's different borough or its a different place altogether

that (railroad?) bridge with all the arches seems like it could be a big deal I'd think?

Pretty standard for the UK I would say. The playground looks quite old, in my experience the ones in london (in the more affluent areas at least) are more up to date, less so as you go further north.

It's not a city but it is accrington

https://maps.app.goo.gl/LwgAU2aUhuAWkqcx6

bravo!

I couldnt see that viaduct on my phone, had to look at it on a bigger screen. But if you look at the list of 'railway bridges and viaducts in the UK' on wikipedia then right at the top there you'll find accrington. Didn't take long to locate the park in relation to the bridge

Well done - haven’t been there for years and I thought it was more red brick than I thought looks on the pic.

do we have a thread about one's personal definition of a city? I feel like this has been coming up a lot lately and it's kind of interesting to think about my own criteria

Well done or something (!), would you have gone through the whole list?

Quite possibly not ledge, tho I did get a twinkle in my eye when I saw it, the picture having quite a northern town feel

nice!

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

ooh, nice one or something :-)

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

View

US surely

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

44 wakefield st, adelaide, sa

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

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

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

but, yeah, micah has mailed it

NICE
but I will claim an assist

you never lived on wakefield st matt?

Correct,

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

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

sure

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

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

you got me bang to rights guv'nor

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

We were right that those trees are jacarandas.

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

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

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

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