Yeh, you're right. It is pretty heartbreaking. I was there about a year ago and along I-10 on the edges of town, there were still several huge apartment complexes (the kind of generic sprawling ones with dozens of 2-4 story buildings) that stood empty and untouched from the day Katrina came through. It's some zombie apocalypse looking stuff :(
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
I couldn't find the complexes on Street View, but they're like these, but wrecked and falling apart with no one to even demolish them.
http://g.mnp0.com/dimg/2115260/460x345/2115260.JPG
It's surreal, and it's got to take its toll on people who see them every day. I was only there for 6 months, but even that made me feel *off* - too dramatic to call it "crazy," but not just right.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
THERE I AM DEPRESSED ARE YOU HAPPY??
:)
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was looking at SW Detroit, actually seemed kind of nice! Leafy streets with single-family houses that were a little weathered but not run-down or anything. Looked at Zillow and all these houses are valued at $25K each.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/detroit.jpg
Yep, Detroit is depressing as fuck.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
You can drop the little orange man into any residential neighborhood of Detroit proper and likely see something like that on any block.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I know, there was just something about this particular view that captured my imagination.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah definitely. Some are surely sadder looking than others.
How does someone abandon a castle.
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I would love my very own midwestern castle.
― kate78, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
however, I'm not going to Detroit to get it.
― kate78, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Midwestern Castle, you say?
― pplains, Friday, 3 February 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
That's actually a pretty beautiful corner in jvc's pic.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
I went to high school in Charlevoix, MI where this thing is located
http://i.imgur.com/aEz54.jpg
Besides weddings and parties, they hosted rock concerts. I once parked on a hill near it and listened to Ratt and Ugly Kid Joe. Pretty sure they were playing the same night? But I could be merging memories to save mental bandwidth.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
Welcome to Miami Beach
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Found this today while "driving around" the upper ninth ward in New Orleans. It's the Club Desire, an early showcase for Fats Domino.
http://prestonlauterbach.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/clubdesire-1.jpg
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
cool find, dp
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3056/3078278579_13712c8943.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/5years_later.html#6
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, that interior shot is crazy. Here's info.
http://www.regional-modernism.com/2008/10/club-desire-threatened.html
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing much about this one. Patton Oswalt tweeted about an L.A. 7-11 last week and I found this dude whizzing past it.
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4932/screenshot20120507at319.png
― pplains, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
andorra, croatia and chile now viewable on GMSV
i get so excited when they add new places!
― these wilburys taste like wilburys (donna rouge), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
speaking of which, this is really cool!:http://gawker.com/5946727/googles-underwater-street-view-will-show-you-the-way-to-fish-clubs-mermaid-graveyards-whale-parks-etc
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Friday, 28 September 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome to Namie, a Japanese city that has been quarantined since the 2011 tsunami.
20,000 people have yet to return to their homes. Google Street View gives those people a tour of the city's current state.
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
This is kind of weird - Google Streetview is usually so good about blurring faces. I've even seen artwork on signs blurred because the mapping thought it was a real face.
But, on the one street in America where you probably would demand to have your face blurred, GSV has been leaving everything out in the open.
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102818AM_zps7a234729.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102756AM_zpsf895bafa.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102805AM_zps72853b48.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102029AM_zpsbc133e92.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102123AM_zpse79beff4.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102103AM_zps4d63c04f.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101759AM_zps2634f544.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101738AM_zps84bd0361.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at102421AM_zps86dd2d30.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101812AM_zpsaf476e92.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101101AM_zpsebcaf821.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at100817AM_zps44bf4fea.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101644AM_zpsf6455261.png
http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nawlins/Screenshot2013-05-20at101617AM_zpsbfe6df44.png
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit. makes sodom and gomorrah look tame by comparison.
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
thought this revive was gonna be about this awesome site which is awesome & should have its own thread & is absorbing & great,http://www.geoguessr.com/
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Monday, 20 May 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, cool
My first try: 10070 points
Guessed the right continent for all of themU.S. plains guesses were closeThought Alaska was Washington or Oregon
That was fun!
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
we did discuss that here: Guess the City
― dylannn, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Does deserve its own thread. B/c it's a game I don't suck at.
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
I LOVE THIS GAME.I can only assume that PP hasn't posted about it yet because he is currently engrossed.
― kate78, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty good at it, but once I guessed someplace in the Missouri River valley in the US and it turned out to be Finland. :\
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 20 May 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
...and who knew that so much of Australia looks like Africa? Or vice versa?
― kate78, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I knew that was Portugese, not Spanish. Dammit!
I kinda suck at World Geography, truth be told.
― pplains, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
This is all I want to do all day.
Was greatly helped in one round by the truck that said a company name and "SCOTLAND" on it. Guessed outskirts of Glasgow, but it was Aberdeen.
Was very proud of guessing w/in 100 km of a place in Argentina b/c it looked arid and the truck in the picture was a Mercedes.
― Je55e, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
New high score.
― kate78, Friday, 24 May 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
My first try: 17,230Was helped greatly by two road signs in somewhat clear view.
Not helped by Brazilian farm looking like the Great Plains of NoAm.Also not helped by guessing that remote African rolling highway was located in inland South Africa, not the Northwest corner.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm lucky I can sound out Cyrillic. One time it plopped me right down in front of the main train station of what was helpfully labeled, in 20 foot letters, СМОЛЕНСК.
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, 2nd try: 29,363. I'm going to stop playing this as I know this is the kind of game that will lead to my downfall:
Can you beat 29,363
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 24 May 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
wao, got within 100km for somewhere in the middle of australia, i'm retiring with that as my final attempt.
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Friday, 24 May 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Albert got .005 km on one of those. Beware.
― pplains, Friday, 24 May 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
just got 19011
― cajunsunday, Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
Argh, rural Finland looks EXACTLY like northern Minnesota.
― Dan I., Saturday, 25 May 2013 07:02 (eleven years ago) link
I am mostly terrible at this but it's p. compelling! I did just have a good-ish game (read: lucky) until I thought a woody backroad in West Virginia might be in Belgium.
(also I would have been really lucky with place #2 as I was dumped down right outside a big sign saying Kapuskasing - 'cept I had no idea where that was. Turned round and there was a Tim Horton's, though, so that was a pretty good clue)
Do you lose points if you move around before guessing?
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 25 May 2013 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
I tried cajunsunday's and got 28875 (click that link to challenge me).
― Grampsy, Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
I found myself on a rocky, red-earthed desert highway with SIMON PONCHO written in the dirt by the side of the road and was sure it was Mexico. it turned out to be Manitoba, damn. I'm pretty much hopeless at this game when there aren't any street signs or shops nearby.
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
You lost the challenge with 7847 points against 28875/
:/
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 25 May 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
did you cheat, grampsy? how did you get within 0.008 km of some spot in the middle of nowhere in Tasmania?
― unregistered, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
enough with the Brazil already, whats wrong with Daventry once in a while?
― MaresNest, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
How are you playing this game? I just rotate, but don't move anywhere, then just take a guess. I'm not very good.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Come at me, bros
Totally cheated with another tab open, btw.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 May 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link