Guess the City

cairo, i mean

I cheated. "find flickr page from url"

116 is an amazing pic

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 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

well i did think something in the uk might be west virginia earlier

sorry :-(

Won't do it again.

are there other small towns in southern illinois that are in the same state of repair as Cairo?

(i know about east stl)

i would guess that there must be

well i did think something in the uk might be west virginia earlier

― 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?)

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)

yeah, it was mostly that and the mix of mountains and fields, but WV looks more forested in my experience driving through

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)

yeah i'm reading the wikipedia now, i didn't know about it! very interesting.

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

Love Kay-ro an places like that in So. Ill, used to drive over there when I went to SIUC.

117

http://i46.tinypic.com/9bhrps.jpg

somewhere in Africa? - Ethiopia? probably miles out

Eastern Europe/former USSR somewhere?

^yeah was thinking this

way off

church is making me think greece or cyprus

nope. think of a region that is heavy on christianity.

somewhere in south america?

close!

central america? guatemala?

*guatemala city

tegucigalpa?

^ ding ding ding

118

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4745674438_f827cfab86_z.jpg

charleston, wv?

I agree it looks Appalachian -- Scranton, PA?

both kinda good guesses but at same time not all that close either

Spokane?

now thats a lot further away!

montpelier, vt?

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

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?

God you have a lot of cities I've never heard of in the States.

being from upstate ny i feel like that is a good guess but i don't know which city. what about utica?

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

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.

God you have a lot of cities I've never heard of in the States.

― 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.

That white rounded conical object in the middle foreground of 118 might be a road salt depository, in which case someplace far north enough to get serious snow.

what about altoona

getting called a "city" is a pretty easy lay in the u.s., chap.

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3631/ssshf.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/7254/asassaj.jpg

^^ Launceston, Tasmania