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I stand corrected! Well it's a flat bit of Belgium, so that excludes Liege and surrounds, but apart from that I have no idea

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:19 (three years ago)

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8673753,4.3037469,3a,75y,30.41h,89.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVbkeVRjIjjnm8Wq5ankvkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Ontwikkelingstraat, Brussels I think.

I actually recognised this one, although I've never been, because I came across pics of a similar street nearby, the rue de la Cite Moderne, in a book about modernist housing estates.

Tim, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:23 (three years ago)

nice work!

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:24 (three years ago)

wow! great!

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:33 (three years ago)

I don't think I have the google maps chops (or the time) to find the first pic though.

Tim, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:34 (three years ago)

several blocks look like that in that neighborhood yes

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:40 (three years ago)

3 Initiatiefplein
https://maps.app.goo.gl/yrkJ3UgJkdtARJ2j9

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:44 (three years ago)

the milk box says Melk lait, duh

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:46 (three years ago)

oh, it's the Everyday brand - I don't go to that supermarket though (Colruyt's private label/home brand)

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 08:53 (three years ago)

Outstanding!

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 14 July 2022 09:28 (three years ago)

this is the Cité Moderne, a neighborhood built in 1922-1925, by architect Victor Bourgeois:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Bourgeois

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:30 (three years ago)

Tim already said that but I didn't know that was the name of the whole neighborhood

StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2022 11:41 (three years ago)

ha, the first picture is about 3 clicks away from the second if you click beyond the road barrier that blocks the next road on the left.

the place all looks shabby, like the places near where i live that were built immediately after the war in the cheapest materials and pebbledashed to hide the worst of it

koogs, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:28 (three years ago)

Well done!

kinder, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:34 (three years ago)

It does look like it's in need of some looking after for sure, architecturally pretty nice though, it's been on my list of places I want to go for some years now.

Tim, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:38 (three years ago)

(So much so that I spent my lunch hour identifying modernist churches I might visit on a future trip to Brussels, I can feel a plan coming together nicely)

Tim, Thursday, 14 July 2022 15:41 (three years ago)

If you turn left and go down the road a bit it seems that between 2009 and 2013 a new estate was built around the corner, in which appears to be a modern homage to the original style:
https://goo.gl/maps/U1PyfSaqjNngQTY29
https://goo.gl/maps/CfwDUnL9a2DiJaQFA

The top link is 2009, the bottom 2013. It has the same street lights but the buildings have more wood.

Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 14 July 2022 20:01 (three years ago)

https://i.ibb.co/26zZQkg/ar.png

guess

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 21 July 2022 13:50 (three years ago)

Warrington, UK - looking towards Fiddlers Ferry Power Station (which has 8 towers but is the first google images result if you look for power station "7 towers" :-) )

https://www.google.be/maps/@53.3828828,-2.6086605,3a,75y,12.14h,83.03t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNQQlG1nwnjXj3TE2hbPXnOjvuWuOUGUbeQ9dch!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNQQlG1nwnjXj3TE2hbPXnOjvuWuOUGUbeQ9dch%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya60.99318-ro-0-fo100!7i5734!8i2867

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 14:32 (three years ago)

How'd you find it so quick?

nickn, Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:18 (three years ago)

I told you: I googled "power station "7 towers" " and the first result looked VERY suspiciously correct + the hills in the distance did too

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:05 (three years ago)

first result in Images

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:05 (three years ago)

and then the first aerial picture already looked like it was the right direction

https://www.google.be/maps/@53.3742371,-2.6680439,3a,75y,38.96h,86.71t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPUHszeH6erpADiR2Jk4tSuQ8ISZxIOml_Tjokg!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPUHszeH6erpADiR2Jk4tSuQ8ISZxIOml_Tjokg%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya38.014175-ro-0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096

so we need to be further back + two bridges near each other: and that was it. Lucky :-)

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:09 (three years ago)

I'd recognise Fiddler's Ferry in a heartbeat, Granadaland icon

ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:57 (three years ago)

Bit too obvious a landmark that one eh? I was going to do it pointing in the opposite direction originally

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:17 (three years ago)

I only found it via that google search, wasn't familiar with it

StanM, Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:33 (three years ago)

I told you: I googled "power station "7 towers" " and the first result looked VERY suspiciously correct + the hills in the distance did too

― StanM

Oops, just skimmed your answer.

nickn, Thursday, 21 July 2022 20:33 (three years ago)

oh no, the next one is going to be very hard now, isn't it?

StanM, Friday, 22 July 2022 05:29 (three years ago)

yeah thanks for nothing stan!

dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2022 06:16 (three years ago)

:-(

StanM, Friday, 22 July 2022 06:21 (three years ago)

;-)

dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2022 07:38 (three years ago)

Why not set one yourself?

dear confusion the catastrophe waitress (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2022 08:14 (three years ago)

i'm not that talented imho

StanM, Friday, 22 July 2022 08:29 (three years ago)

Ok. Newb attempt. Possibly ridiculously easy or difficult.

https://ibb.co/fpdXCS9

horizontal, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 02:50 (three years ago)

https://i.ibb.co/Z8zfhJS/Bloop1.png

micah, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 03:10 (three years ago)

My wild guess would be Oregon or somewhere northwest. There's a tree on the right that has red flowers, which might be a clue if identified

Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 03:42 (three years ago)

Thanks for fixing my newb flaws, Micah.

horizontal, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 03:42 (three years ago)

NW seems a good initial candidate. It looks to be at the base of a hill...or part way down one

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 04:55 (three years ago)

Pennsylvania plate?

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:00 (three years ago)

The license plate on the truck might be Utah, which probably means they just moved from Utah, and this is a completely useless clue.

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:03 (three years ago)

Yeah, the plate itself doesn't really matter (its not PA anyway, top and bottom band take up too much space)

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:16 (three years ago)

It looks pretty steep, from the trees and need for such a wooden structure to access the house, but you can't see much in the distance. Some humid northern climate.

Nabozo, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:35 (three years ago)

That truck looks like a work truck (tool boxes, spray cans) rather than a moving truck.

The cars seems a bit older than I would expect in a middle class city area, so maybe outside a city in a rural area. Also, the houses are pretty modest for a "view" area.

Could be the hilly south too (Appalachia).

nickn, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 06:39 (three years ago)

looks like the "back" of those houses--wonder what they are all facing? does look like a steep drop off

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 12:10 (three years ago)

Pittsburgh somewhere??? That looks like a Penna plate

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 12:11 (three years ago)

Definitely looks like a steep drop, hillside of some sort

That looks like a Penna plate

Aren't the bands wrong though? The blue and yellow look too thick, take up too much space

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 12:38 (three years ago)

yeah you're right--those are also white letters which at a quick glance it looks like PA has blue letters

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 13:11 (three years ago)

but it looks like maybe no states have white letters?

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 13:12 (three years ago)

poking around Mt Washington areas of Pittsburgh and I feel like I'm close

a (waterface), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:47 (three years ago)

Those houses don't look emotional enough to be Pittsburgh houses

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 15:00 (three years ago)


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