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)
^^^^
― 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)
nope
― 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)