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one of them says cego which means blind in both portuguese and spanish, and the place does look iberian

lag∞n, Friday, 21 January 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link

Intrigued by that large yellow boxy thing behind the lamp post.

o. nate, Friday, 21 January 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link

according to my googling spanish mailboxes are yellow but tbh more lemony than that one

lag∞n, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link

clothes recycling collection? glass recycling?

StanM, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link

Well the "no stopping" and "parking" signs are standard EU

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 January 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link

feeling pretty convinced this is Lisbon

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 January 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link

It's Lisbon, the Benfica Railway Station area:

Pic 1, 22/1/3 (6, Estr. Buraca):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7442957,-9.2047569,3a,60y,281.05h,105.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGAU5FtQPoEZu6hOBKxqfmw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Pic 2, 22/1/12 (Campolide?):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7446855,-9.2032527,2a,37.5y,85.63h,94.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLWAL3tqWr1_MQDifaueChQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Pic 3, 22/1/16 (R. Issan Sartawi / R. Garcia de Orta):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7451261,-9.2049262,3a,75y,126.81h,99.53t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOtSjlQZyI3qcYWwJ9HG9Ug!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Pic 4, 22/1/20 (R. da Venezuela):
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.7448069,-9.1993145,3a,75y,260.8h,103.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stuoK_ShThX7gApWoHFvLoA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Note about that TV tower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Forest_Park
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Florestal_de_Monsanto#Antenas_de_Monsanto:
“Thanks to the dominant position in relation to the entire Lisbon region, Monsanto was equipped with several antennas. Among these stands out the Centro Emissor de Monsanto, a communications tower of Portugal Telecom, which succeeded the former antenna of RTP. With a height of 100 meters, it is one of the tallest structures in Portugal.”

kousenband, Friday, 21 January 2022 08:40 (two years ago) link

Nice one! I looked at the aerial views and gave up, however did you figure out which part of town?

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 21 January 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link

nice one!

StanM, Friday, 21 January 2022 09:18 (two years ago) link

The last picture gave me strong Lisbon vibes, more specifically it reminded me of Sete-Rios station, where we embarked on a train or metro every morning while staying in Lisbon in 2019 to venture into the city centre or away from it. Confirmed by the box junction thing: Wikipedia only mentions Malta, Cyprus and Portugal as Southern European countries where it’s in use. Streetview showed some very similar buildings along the railway to the ones in the second pic when exiting the station, so I decided to move down the line away from the centre, further into the suburbs. Hit the jackpot at the very next station. Locating pics 1 and 3 took a bit more time.

kousenband, Friday, 21 January 2022 09:25 (two years ago) link

picture two looks to be taken from a freight train

koogs, Friday, 21 January 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link

and the yellow thing is vestuario usado = used clothes

StanM, Friday, 21 January 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link

Good work kousenband!

I didn't expect this one to be so tricky, at least after the second pic anyway. Good work on getting all shots, wanted to keep them as close together as possible while showing something different

And yes, the shot of outside the station is oddly reminiscent of an architects mock-up photo. The lighting, and maybe the way the people are placed

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/R9XBhdJ/oc.jpg

Monday

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Monday, 24 January 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link

Don't think I'm sticking my neck out saying USA

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:18 (two years ago) link

the tiny shack on the right looks like it says **** Brazillia

koogs, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link

Hotlanta

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link

no idea. three bridges near each other, midsize buildings, could be a suburb of 3/4 of the usa. shrug

StanM, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link

I'm not sure "suburb" is how I'd describe that view

rob, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:45 (two years ago) link

Feel like the giveaways will be logo above 'moving supplies', side on logo on nearest building in centre of pic and xxxx brazxxxx

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 24 January 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link

Kind of imagine Niagara Falls would look like that if there was no famous waterfall there, just a river

ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 24 January 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link

Got a guess a while back from combing thru a list of US truss bridges, started there. Found some in Memphis that felt similar but no dice, zoomed out and started looking thru a few southern cities. Got lucky with Shreveport!

tomorrow, Monday, 24 January 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link

oh, it was "L STER BRAZZEL'S USED CARS & TRUCKS"

StanM, Monday, 24 January 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link

nice find btw

StanM, Monday, 24 January 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link

BANG! done.

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 24 January 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link

I thought of Memphis, but the river was too small to be the Mississippi. Tried Little Rock. It did look Southern to me.

o. nate, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 03:51 (two years ago) link

this man is a professional athlete pic.twitter.com/DBtCYYA6AX

— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) January 31, 2022

tomorrow, Monday, 31 January 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link

welp

Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 31 January 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link

i would read the hell out of an oral history of this entire phenomenon

Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 31 January 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link

crazy

lag∞n, Monday, 31 January 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link

https://i.ibb.co/xDSpHC2/l.jpg

Its that time of the week

Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Monday, 31 January 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link

Positive I've seen a Come Dine With Me from here years ago and it's on England's south coast.

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Monday, 31 January 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link

Looks like UK, well England really, never seen those sort of sunken front gardens tho xp

ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 31 January 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link

The trash bin at 87 doesn't have the logo obscured, but I can't read the text. Maybe it's still recognizable to someone.

nickn, Monday, 31 January 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link

top left: airplane?

StanM, Monday, 31 January 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link

are TV aerials/antennas still a thing everywhere in the UK or does their presence mean we're in a remote cable-less location?

StanM, Monday, 31 January 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link

Think the bin logo is Thanet council. Have clicked around but not found anything like these houses yet.

kinder, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link

nice one!

StanM, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 04:59 (two years ago) link

that's bloody cheeky to roll it back to 2015 in the street view

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 05:27 (two years ago) link

ah well done! how did you find the street?

kinder, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link

Good job! I went through all the council logos of the UK (found a good Medium account that hosts them) but the crudeness of the lines threw me and I didn't make the match especially as the two separate swoops on the right look like one on the bin.

Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link

personally I’m would have had no idea where to start until the council logo was spotted. And then I just trawled the aerial view of Margate until I found a cheaper area of town with terrace roofs. When I found it I was sure I was wrong because the plants were all overgrown, jeeze. But tomorrow saw it more clearly than I.

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 12:06 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

A welcome revive, thanks CB.

I haven't a clue so I'm going to guess Boulder, Colorado.

Tim, Friday, 11 March 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link

Nottingham?

koogs, Friday, 11 March 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link

yay, we can guess a city again!

celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 11 March 2022 12:15 (two years ago) link


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