Guess the City

I was clear on it being Indonesia and found the similar buildings and all, but then I thought the same thing with thinking Windhoek was in Cyprus and that I'd found the right building in Limassol

gah, what a missed opportunity! thought it might be a police car, but couldn’t quite read how exactly the word was spelled here, and then fixated on that street lamp pole, which looked so familiar, but I couldn’t get it through googling. never occurred to me those red shapes could be letters. “polisi” would have been such a dead giveaway. damn you, low resolution!

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Monday

That looks so much like Toronto, that style of high school underpass mural. Can't place it, or the red trusses, though

I'm deeply tempted to say Philadelphia, but I don't know that mural and can't find anything about it on the local mural sites. The buildings toward the center-right look deeply eastern US seaboard to me, or at least east of the Mississippi.

I *really* think it's Philadelphia, in the "I feel like I've driven by that mural on the way to the airport" sense. Does on the way to the airport give a clue?

The foliage does place it around Philly, to my eyes... slightly too verdant for Toronto

it's not on the way to the airport

oh well

Those buildings could rly be anywhere influenced by edwardian architecture

i can understand where you'd get that, though, eephus— of the several routes one can take to the Philly airport, one of them requires the driver to stop at a light near a bridge with a mural that has similar vibe. That mural, however, is nowhere near any hills, or within sight of a residential neighborhood, and doesn't feature a red bridge, but some sort of old school concrete/stone amalgam...

welp I just exhausted 5 minutes of various permutations of search terms:

red orange steel art deco rail truss trestle underpass overpass mural

The part of the mural under the bridge depicts a cityscape which maybe represents the city this is? Maaaaaaybe Chicago? There's one building in front which seems to have a diagonal front face like that tower in Chicago that has that.

Chicago railroad underpasses tend to be concrete in my experience.

it reminds me so much of one neighbourhood in montreal but like if four different parts of the neighbourhood were kinda patched together like in a dream

any other hints?

That stop light is interesting -- only two lights and they're both red (or is one orange?).

I know of one similar one-lane-wide underpass that has a 2-way light (red & blinking-yellow once triggered).

@Will I was also thinking it could be Canada.... but East Van or West Windsor?

Looks like it could be in New Jersey.

xp. definitely not east van

I think it’s just a yellow blinking light, the kind that are used as a warning of a possible obstruction.

with all due respect to the many good players in this thread, i would like to read an extensive interview with cherry blossom about their approach to the Guess the City game

It could probably be anywhere in New England, how about Northampton MA

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Reverse angle

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technical issues!

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Feeling much less Philadelphia now

Mural shows this is a place with palm trees along the shore (unless it's a mural depicting a completely different place, which just seems too mean of cherry blossom)

I don't know. The vegetation across the road there looks like it comes from a very different climate. The mural seems to depict some place in the Middle East, but everything else looks very Eastern US to me.

is that a pool? sign reads something like "stairs could be slippery"?

Looks like a cable stayed bridge in the first picture's mural, but that led me nowhere.

stairs closed

and isn't that an elevated train station?

it's Upham's Corner train station in Boston

thanks to rob's hint

It's not *technically* a reverse angle, it's around the corner (the cherrypicker is partially obscuring the right side of the mural/ivy from pic 1).

Definitely a smallish train station, the tracks in pic 1 lead into this building.

lol nevermind well done

https://goo.gl/maps/7Qdzhr5H5WoGwuo88

my first ever guess!

only took a shitton of scrolling on Google Image search results for "rail station mural mountains"

crossing one off my bucket list

ha nice one, I have looked at a ton of train-themed murals today

good work!

The second mural depicts Cabo Verde, the first mural is a depiction of Boston

(unless it's a mural depicting a completely different place, which just seems too mean of cherry blossom)

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, February 17, 2021 12:21 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

but OK, I get it, big Cap Verdean community

My northeast US seaboard general vibe was right, at least.

https://i.postimg.cc/vmHZ6tbf/GTC2.png

This one will likely be easy for a few people.

Bridgetown, Barbados?

lol, yes. Well done.

if you recognise it's a cricket ground you're in business with that one