Guess the City

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marseille?

plax (ico), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:16 (three years ago) link

The green shelter kind of looks like something you'd find in a French park. Only I don't think this France, so I'm extrapolating to Latin countries - but I don't think Italy or Portugal so I reckon northern half of Spain is a good guess. Unless it's some wealthy southern bit of South America, aaaargh!

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link

That streetlight looks very short

cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:22 (three years ago) link

Almost stunted, so the air could be a little on the dusty side

cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:23 (three years ago) link

I think it's Zaragoza

٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:36 (three years ago) link

I think there's a clue in the trees lining the road (plane trees I think). They've been treated in a particular way - central trunk cut out and branches growing up around the stump. I'm sure I've seen that but not sure where. Not France, again I think Spain.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link

Or Portugal?

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link

Maybe! But the scene all looks a bit tidy for Portugal. Tons of park benches, a council with money.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link

Also very flat: if it was Portugal it would have to be in the north, and it's hilly up there

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link

I do feel like I saw a few trees like that in Seville - likewise the red and white blocks

nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:22 (three years ago) link

I ruled out Portugal because the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate. The place might be "untidy" but the sidewalks are spectacular

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link

"the sidewalk paving is too disconsolate" is too beautiful a line *not* to have been in Robert Ashley's Private Parts.

Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 29 January 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link

"The poster has made the thread look stupid."

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:45 (three years ago) link

(ref to my fave line in "Perfect Lives", "the sculptor has made the horse look stupid", not a commentary.)

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link

I'm really invested in knowing where the hell this is now! I'm sticking with northern Spanish city

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link

Will post another view anon. This is hard mode, admittedly.

pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link

Going completely against the crowd and trying Cairns

or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link

Wow. I'm in Oz, so will have to think about that one.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link

Here you go:

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

pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link

Wish I'd waited for that pic before trying Cairns

or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link

Was about to say. Those trees lining the road: surely not Aussie.

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:07 (three years ago) link

Bucharest?

Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:08 (three years ago) link

Spain or former Spanish colony

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link

Nah, it's too tidy for that. :)

Our churches are quite different too.

xp

pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link

(to Neil S, in case there was any doubt)

pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:10 (three years ago) link

That's a Spanish no parking sign surely. I'll go Albacete.

nashwan, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link

Stop sign says Pare so Latin America is likely

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link

100% South America, so thats the continent. Now to find the street

cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link

I've been thinking Andean plateau because of the way it seems cold but I've only been to Bolivia there, and only a handful of places there, and this isn't one of them. But the cars (old & small) match those I saw there. The pickup truck suggests something in the USA's orbit, and that this is not total poverty (so again, probably not Bolivia).

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link

no cars like that in a reasonably affluent European country I don’t think

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link

(or (some of) what Euler said)

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link

Agree that the cars absolutely aren't well-off European, so I guess Spanish South American. But it's still cold, people are still wrapped up. Argentina? Uruguay?

Zelda Zonk, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link

That's why I said Andean plateau. It's chilly to cold there year round, at least in many places, because it's so high up.

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link

Unless this photo is from the 90s, I'm very confused by these cars. I did a bunch of street drops across Latin/South America and Bolivia was the only one that remotely matched

I swear to god I've seen those banners before, I thought maybe they were a cellphone provider name I'd seen elsewhere or something but it doesn't seem to be the case

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link

the "accent mark" does look like a text bubble

rob, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link

yeah, what about that banner? on this one more letters are visible

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTEL

cherry blossom, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link

I thought the red telephone box was key but now I'm not so sure

or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link

Breakthrough! xp

or something, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link

FUCK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTEL

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link

lol xp

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link

I figured out the banners. It's for ANTEL, the state telecom company of Uruguay.

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link

xp fuck!

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link

& lol

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link

looool

pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link

fuck & lol
even when I was 17

All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:08 (three years ago) link

I knew it was Madrid

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:11 (three years ago) link

If you can guess a pop. 20,000 town in Uruguay within less than 24h based on two adjacent photos, then perhaps the true hard mode is a random nondescript highway in the middle of nowhere.

pomenitul, Friday, 29 January 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link


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