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)
charleston, wv?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:07 (sixteen years ago)
I agree it looks Appalachian -- Scranton, PA?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:45 (sixteen years ago)
both kinda good guesses but at same time not all that close either
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 11:30 (sixteen years ago)
Spokane?
― kate78, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:15 (sixteen years ago)
now thats a lot further away!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 13:10 (sixteen years ago)
montpelier, vt?
― caek, Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:33 (fifteen years ago)
nope - the first two guesses charleston and scranton were good in general terms - its sorta between the two. Thought someone would have got closer though
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:50 (fifteen years ago)
there is nothing there to tell me it is american, except (possibly) for the width of the road. the hills in the background look like foothills, old and hunkered down. probably north-eastern, with a river (crossed by a bridge in the background)... could be springfield, ma? a piece of albany, ny?
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:52 (fifteen years ago)
God you have a lot of cities I've never heard of in the States.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:58 (fifteen years ago)
being from upstate ny i feel like that is a good guess but i don't know which city. what about utica?
― the girl with the butt tattoo (harbl), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:00 (fifteen years ago)
118 is kind of a hard one (though people have got harder ones!) - I'll reveal at the end of the day if no one has it (charleston is nearest guess so far)
this should be achievable though
119
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4773647457_9e8203d837_b.jpg
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)
utica, ny: the only place i have ever seen kids playing in the street next to a car on fire. it was like sarajevo, or one of those movies from the '80s about white teachers who go to bad neighborhoods to condescend to black people.
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:05 (fifteen years ago)
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, July 8, 2010 9:28 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
This is kinda turning into Guess the College-Town/County Seat/Small Burgh.
― kate78, Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:06 (fifteen years ago)