these are all hard because at first i assume they are in the u.s. but then i have no idea, and definitely can't recognize anything in the uk
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
116: Pyramids just out of view
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:38 (sixteen years ago)
detroit?
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:39 (sixteen years ago)
detroit was the first to come to my mind, but the street's so wide that it looks like the main street of a much smaller midwest town
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)
not detroit (i thought someone might guess there, but it isn't)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
southern illinois
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:41 (sixteen years ago)
city i don't know
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
east st. louis?
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:42 (sixteen years ago)
harbl you're almost there!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)
well i really don't know of any cities there except east saint louis or carbondale and i have a feeling it's neither. probably a small-ish town. i've never been there, i just had a feeling.
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:45 (sixteen years ago)
jacksonville (I am using google maps to guess, can you tell?)
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:45 (sixteen years ago)
Haha, I understand the pyramids reference now, but I cheated so I won't give it away.
― tomofthenest, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:47 (sixteen years ago)
oh, i didn't even see the pyramids thing. it's a place where it's hard out for a pimp right
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:49 (sixteen years ago)
ok is it cairo, illinois? lol
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)
west memphis, arkansas?
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:50 (sixteen years ago)
its cairo, illinois...had wanted to post this pic but theres a googleable ghost mural on it
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/3361660880_792c48b192_b.jpg
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:52 (sixteen years ago)
how did stan know?
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:53 (sixteen years ago)
xps Ahhh Rochdale! Amazing detail, you can see the fire station and the dome of the rather splendid John the Baptist church.
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:54 (sixteen years ago)
(i'd thought it was sorta...not famous exactly, but well known because of well how it looks!)
xp i wondered that too
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:54 (sixteen years ago)
cairo, i mean
I cheated. "find flickr page from url"
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)
116 is an amazing pic
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)
ah ok. i wouldn't have guessed from the 100s of possibilities without that clue, but i'm still proud of my ability to guess what part of what state.
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:59 (sixteen years ago)
harbl you are mad skilled, stanm you should be ashamed of yourself. i should too though cause i never get anything done when this thread is alive
― del griffith, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:01 (sixteen years ago)
well i did think something in the uk might be west virginia earlier
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:01 (sixteen years ago)
sorry :-(
Won't do it again.
― StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:02 (sixteen years ago)
are there other small towns in southern illinois that are in the same state of repair as Cairo?
(i know about east stl)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:04 (sixteen years ago)
i would guess that there must be
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:05 (sixteen years ago)
― harbl, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:01 PM (
could say there are sorta similarities in a way between pennine milltowns in the UK and western PA (and parts of WV i guess?)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:05 (sixteen years ago)
ah I'd picked cairo because I thought it was kind of an extreme example and might be got fairly easily (which it was, i didnt know you could cheat tho - i will be better prepared next time)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:06 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, it was mostly that and the mix of mountains and fields, but WV looks more forested in my experience driving through
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:09 (sixteen years ago)
is cairo known for something then?
I'd thought it was sorta well known just for being a complete wreck (80% depopulation according to wikipedia)
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:14 (sixteen years ago)
yeah i'm reading the wikipedia now, i didn't know about it! very interesting.
― harbl, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:15 (sixteen years ago)
there's a couple youtube videos which are pretty good, driving round it. one with an old woman talking about how it used to be before the war, which is great, and one with corny ambient music but does show the almost completely abandoned downtown
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:19 (sixteen years ago)
Love Kay-ro an places like that in So. Ill, used to drive over there when I went to SIUC.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
117
http://i46.tinypic.com/9bhrps.jpg
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 10 June 2010 00:42 (sixteen years ago)
somewhere in Africa? - Ethiopia? probably miles out
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 10 June 2010 10:19 (sixteen years ago)
Eastern Europe/former USSR somewhere?
― ailsa, Thursday, 10 June 2010 10:26 (sixteen years ago)
^yeah was thinking this
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:35 (sixteen years ago)
way off
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 01:51 (sixteen years ago)
church is making me think greece or cyprus
― circles, Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:31 (sixteen years ago)
nope. think of a region that is heavy on christianity.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:35 (sixteen years ago)
somewhere in south america?
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:42 (sixteen years ago)
close!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:49 (sixteen years ago)
central america? guatemala?
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Sunday, 13 June 2010 02:56 (sixteen years ago)
*guatemala city
tegucigalpa?
― about as twee as a being beaten with a phone book (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 June 2010 03:01 (sixteen years ago)
^ ding ding ding
― StanM, Sunday, 13 June 2010 08:09 (sixteen years ago)
118
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4745674438_f827cfab86_z.jpg
― cherry blossom, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:22 (sixteen years ago)