Guess the City

#1. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3290/2938231460_393d9fd250.jpg

Some midwest shithole?

yeah i was gonna guess somewhere in michigan

or maybe it's toledo?

Kiev?

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

god it looks horrible. bad shot maybe?

hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it

is someone gonna tell the answer?

if in the US, Pittsburgh?

i don't think it's the US

no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?

hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!

http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg

helpful clue

ya none of that anywhere else in the world

looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.

oh lol jho :D

minsk

actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

Having a punt that its Caracas.

I've just realised that this is not the most recently available street view, which is not really fair as the current view is very different

This is roughly the same view in 2024

https://imgur.com/a/8FtdgxV

Hm, why didn't that work?

https://i.imgur.com/YzYLNbQ.png

Reminds me of some streets I saw in Sal in Cape Verde.

OK, that's pretty dramatically different! I'm struck by the cars, which look like they're from the 1990s or something

Ok not Himalayan. Agree with South America or maybe Haiti?

Cali, Colombia? The painting of the green jeep is labeled "El Caleno."

Or wait, maybe it is Bogota. The building in the first photo looks like La Casa de Pique in the Bronx slum, which was demolished a few years ago:
https://www.colombia.com/actualidad/nacionales/sdi/141328/inicio-la-demolicion-del-bronx

found it: 1563 Cl. 9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nzk7KhPSgq2vhzZS9?g_st=ac

Ah good! I was at the wrong end of town, about 7 miles further west, though would never have found it even if landed on same street though with the changes. Was going to look for churches this afternoon

Weird area, I did kept second guessing if it was Bogota or not, but the street sign design was too big a factor to look elsewhere

from 2014

https://www.google.com/maps/@4.600975,-74.0837072,3a,75y,18.44h,77.59t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sDgRK-F7csYnxL8IWHCwqUg!2e0!5s20141001T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DDgRK-F7csYnxL8IWHCwqUg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D18.438167091363482%26pitch%3D12.410116189830106%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu

well done jaymc, and cherry blossom who did say Bogota last night too. If you turn the camera around 180 degrees, are those homeless people sleeping? I really hope so, because this is what I read about the Bronx:

https://colombiareports.com/keep-colombias-homicide-rate-low-dismember-dispose-victims-remains/

I think this is the best thread to ask this.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53772932710_8353e9d6c6_h.jpg

This is me. It's October 1973 and I'm seven years old. My mom and I went on a several month long trip around Europe and somewhere on the road she took this picture. My gut feeling is that it's Trieste, Italy or perhaps Pula, Croatia. I have no idea, but I'll bet that wall is still there.

Nafplio in Greece maybe?

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/greece/articles/11-reasons-to-fall-in-love-with-nafplio-the-most-romantic-destination-in-greece

I say maybe, but that looks like exactly the same piece of wall to me.

that makes total sense - we did eventually get to Greece (I had my 8th birthday in Athens)

and bingo! thanks for spotting that - I found the spot at 4:28 into this video. There's more trees now and it looks like the walls of Palamidi Fortress have been given a good cleaning.

I broke into that fortress once! Interrailing round Europe with friends in 1993 we were staying in Nafplio, after visiting the town we planned to visit the fortress on the way back to our hostel, which was on the other side, but after climbing all the way up the hill we found the fortress was closed. So we climbed up a 12ft wall, walked through it and out the other side.

https://i.ibb.co/ccHNPDK/ok.png

Towels

Recognised immediately

looks very familiar but can't put my finger on it

This is me. It's October 1973 and I'm seven years old

Elvis you need to revisit and take a new photo, please wear similar tshirt and facial expression.

xp i feel like everywhere I've lived has has this view. thought it might be Exeter but it's not the bit I was half thinking of

it could be London or any other southern English city. Bristol maybe? The Kingsdwon Estate has similar mid-20th century housing

are the bins the only real clue?

are those bollards/poles uniquely shaped maybe? (dunno)

another photo pls?

https://i.ibb.co/tLvxJxv/Screenshot-2024-07-10-at-10-36-36.png

that blue sign with the yellow F seems like the only clue (not that I know what it means) maybe?

The sign his for Foxton's Estate Agents: London's Estate Agent.

("London's Estate Agent" is the tagline on their website FYI)

I am pretty sure I've been here but I can't put my finger on where it is.

Also a bus in those trees that gives it away. Not sure there's any clue more specific to what part of London, were one wanted.

randomly clicking around in Google Streetview and it could be any reasonably affluent suburb (found a street in Twickenham, but then a street in Chingford, and then everywhere - they all look the same :-) )

What's this? Is it the entry to a LTN or just parking restrictions?

https://i.imgur.com/ANKIHFZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/ANKIHFZ.png

is that a table tennis table on the right there? makes me wonder if it's somewhere around Wimbledon? which would also be topical just now of course. jumping around there and can't find anything so far tho

Looks a lot like where my pal lived between Twickenham / Richmond

It looks like there is a table tennis table but there are quite a few of those around (https://pingpongmap.net a subset of them here but after a cursory glance I could t see a good candidate).

it almost has to be Wimbledon since the tennis is on, innit - but I still can't find it :-)

https://i.ibb.co/rGf4m7w/www.jpg

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It's crazy to me, the interchangeability of any town-/cityscape in England. You could show me any picture of any High Street and I wouldn't be able to tell you if it was Bristol vs. Leeds or whatever

London. It's gotta be London, right? London's a city. I'm saying London.

damn. well done.

as per others honestly feel like i've been to all these locations. where? no idea. part of me wondered... oxford? but ledge's guess feels best.

https://i.ibb.co/XtY9n7D/oi.png

A view from above

It's pretty big wherever it is, with lots of council housing or apartment blocks in any case which makes me think maybe war damage - somewhere in south London?

My first thought was "how was this taken". I'm out of touch, but it looks too clean to have been taken with a drone, and in any case drones are stabilised, so it probably wouldn't be tilted. 2434x1164 isn't a standard resolution so it's not straight-from-the-camera. Is this the right-hand-side of a very wide, two-page panorama?

Did the photographer use a helicopter? It's a short exposure, but it looks too steady for that. So perhaps it was taken with an SLR from the viewing platform of a tall building. But it looks too low for The Shard, and that's not the view from The Shard. Or Horizon 22. It looks Southwark-esque, but that church isn't familiar.

Are there other cities in the UK with tall buildings? I don't know, I've never been anywhere else.

I will be amazed if this isn’t London but I can’t see any point blocks, and it’s really hard to see anything much by way of hills. Between those two things it’s it’s really hard to place

The gothic church dimly visible front and left has a surprisingly unusual combo of hipped tower above a story of three lancet windows. Hasn’t helped me feel fire out where it is though