Guess the City

well done though

so the sign in the Santa/street/piano picture says "Gifts" - and it's "Schmitt ??? - ??? Santa" - meanwhile, the family pic is "German Family Christmas" and the three landscape/tower drawings aren't labeled.

https://www.google.be/maps/@41.5214872,-90.583515,3a,41.1y,186.89h,76.73t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOPSfvfoeYpRnHe2KiE8vBOZ5nHTVJFetsvuBi4%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya283.5709-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

and it's a Santa costume, no famous pope/cardinal

Gifts, omg.

This one was wild

how the hell did you end up in a place like this, cherry blossom? :-)

the costume looks more like Saint Nicholas though - who comes with gifts on December 6th here in Belgium and looks/sounds suspiciously like Santa Claus (Sint Nicholas -> Sint Nikolaas -> Sinterklaas / Santa Claus)

https://i.ibb.co/kHjf8zR/orph.jpg

I think the vertical KUM might be EUM as port of RKO Orpheum (which is todays Adler)

Haha I was wrong about more or less everything so I am likely wrong about this too but I’m clinging on to this being Schmitts Music Store Santa.

in July 1913, relocated to 111-113 W. Third St. Schmidt Music Company continued in business in Davenport until 1964.

which is next to the Adler

I was pretty sure that I read "Schmitt Music Store Santa" in that photo caption. I found a Schmitt Music store website with all of their store locations, which are all in the Midwest, and I checked many of them for a historical museum. But they have no current location in Davenport, IA, so I never looked there!

Ok since I guessed one not so long ago, here's today's:

https://i.ibb.co/7yzZ7rW/Screenshot-2021-11-16-at-11-20-39.png

Thinking Israel

All the cars are white. Feels like in Israel they wouldn't all be white, but then it is a small sample size. And it could be near an airport

Black and white striped poles

yeah I was thinking that most of them are taxis perhaps. Airport or big hotel on the right.

Direction signs with blue background and white text: not Israel?

definitely Middle East though

Man is wearing a Kippah I think?

I'm not finding blue traffic signs like that in Israel (or yellow buses) - maybe I'm not looking in the right spots

Thought it might be Tunis, but I did some wandering and didn't find many signs that were similar.

i think it's somewhere moister than that. getting pacific vibes, philippines maybe. can't find those traffic stripes though

those are canary island date palms fwiw so maybe north africa a little more likely that middle east (although obviously they're all over the world at this point)

are we seeing letters on the right? something like FAH ?

I think I found some striped poles

All non-white cars are forbidden in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) but I don't think this is it

Striped poles for both street signs and lights are very distinctive. Googling around I found striped poles in Kuwait. The blue sign with two indecipherable lines of text - wondering if this is arabic script on top and Roman script underneath

The striped poles I found were in Haifa, near the airport but not had a chance to look properly

I'm not 100% on that cap being a Kippah - could be a Taquiyah or Kufi too?

I see FAH too, and the word underneath looks like "depot."

The area immediately north of Tel Aviv airport is festooned with striped poles. Festooned!

one more before I go to bed:

https://i.ibb.co/gSGGnMf/Screenshot-2021-11-17-at-21-28-33.png

https://www.google.com/maps/@23.5885384,58.3844859,3a,75y,55.9h,77.58t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNkSvNKaYuOdEpeqdGbRz4YjPx4lRkpZhyVUV2q!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNkSvNKaYuOdEpeqdGbRz4YjPx4lRkpZhyVUV2q%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi1.1677419-ya168.24538-ro0.124545805-fo100!7i5760!8i2880

Got him!

O Man!

(indirectly via https://trafficfineslist.com/images/oman-traffic-fines.jpg)

The land of the stripey pole...

nice one!

Second pic: https://goo.gl/maps/DCEtf1CDDXDucce1A

That was a good one. I definitely got sidetracked by finding stripey poles in Israel. Haifa and Tel Aviv both felt too busy but they had the striped poles, but weirdly only in certain areas so I felt hmm maybe

Then I looked Jordan, Saudi, Oman and saw the traffic fines photo with the highway overhead and furniture store and it was pretty quick from there

One thing I learned is that Haifa and Tel Aviv both have a lot of tiny roundabouts, that are pretty well decorated

Nice one, was looking for a while like the middle east was a bit of a blind spot for the thread.

https://i.ibb.co/9YGK7BJ/co2.jpg

Monday SV

Initial thought: those bigger houses feel scandinavian - but it could just as easily be Scotland or something like the flatter parts of Austria, maybe? :-/

Can't quite make out what's on the road (bottom) - xxxT xxNAS ? (west/east something nas?)

Trying to see if the cars drive on the left or right but that three lane road is very confusing - looking at the arrows near the bottom of the pic all three lanes are coming our way, but a bit further away, between the trees, it looks like there's an arrow that splits into left/straight on for traffic coming from where we are - so which is it?

Looks like driving on the left to me, I can't see an arrow indicating the left lane is coming our way, only the one higher up. Can't make out the writing on the road on the right hand lane beyond __Y ___S - any lanes? left turns? Might be a place name instead of an instruction.

I think that's the UK, and it might be Lancaster?

That could be a currys / pc world logo on the left edge in the middle - have looked at a few megastores with no joy though.

The roads and carparks all look very quiet!

Might look silly in a bit but I'm pretty confident that is not the UK. First thought was Scandinavia

If only you'd waited a minute...

Swansea:

https://goo.gl/maps/TptAJZuqy2UXqmst7

Writing on the road says CITY DINAS (city in welsh)!

This is the original image: https://goo.gl/maps/fNwPerNVem5gmMmF6

nice, well done!