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Post by zeebra on Apr 4, 2017 8:09:08 GMT
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 4, 2017 11:17:15 GMT
#11 Something to do with the CIA or FBI maybe? Something... |
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Post by Willy Eckerslyke on Apr 4, 2017 14:09:51 GMT
St Leonards seafront.
Prince's Street Edinburgh.
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Queen's Hotel Cheltenham.
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 4, 2017 17:29:14 GMT
 #21 #21 I can do! It's the George Washington Bridge across Hudson River. Today it has two decks. Known locally as 'The GWB', your photo was taken from the Manhattan side and I can place it as from Riverside Drive. It has been averaging around 10 suicides per year, the fourth favourite bridge for this in the US.  |
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 5, 2017 12:49:21 GMT
 #20 For #20 I had to cheat a bit as I spent way too long looking over European tramways It was taken at Deák Ferenc tér (square), Budapest, Hungary The prominent building is Anker Palace Hotel, built in 1908. Apparently, the tower at top centre has been converted into a swish private apartment, rentable for 580,000 forints (£1,500) per month  I also learned a bit of Hungarian along the way. 'My record is scratched' Car-wise: next to the tram, the large black car looks to be a late-forties Buick being followed by a GAZ Pobeda. |
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Post by tom on Apr 5, 2017 15:23:24 GMT
 #15 It seems that the Café Suisso is no longer there, but this is looking roughly NNE up the Rua Primeiro de Dezembro from the Praça Dom João da Câmara in Lisbon. In the background is the Monumento aos Restauradores (Monument to the Restorers) erected in 1886. This is roughly the same place on Streetview  And I also learned a bit of Portuguese. Meu aerodeslizador está cheio de enguias. |
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 5, 2017 17:26:34 GMT
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 5, 2017 18:00:02 GMT
 #14 This took so sleuthing. The church and flat roofs just didn't look European to me, so searched on the Strobach stamp and found that studio produced many postcards of Uraguay. Flew around Google Maps, comparing what other postcards had in their background ...and spotted the church towers It's Plaza Matriz (formerly Constitución) in Montevideo. The church is Catedral Metropolitana de Montevideo from 1790. The plaza was was originally named in honour of the Spanish Constitution of 1812. Do not mention inquisitions. You can wander about the place here tinyurl.com/lzt2e4n |
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Post by zeebra on Apr 6, 2017 10:02:50 GMT
All correct so far. The Cheltenham one actually names the gardens rather than the hotel. So what are the gardens called?
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 6, 2017 11:19:31 GMT
 #19 The photo was taken from the roof of the Town Hall, across Imperial Square Gardens The ice cream van is on the large side, looking more likely to be a Morris Commercial Series-Y rather than a Thames Fordson E73A due to the shorter door and more upright appearance. But it is a bit of a squint from up here. ....'Dinsdale!' |
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 6, 2017 12:04:22 GMT
#23 Where are we What are we driving What is significant about what we are driving Do you like my new trousers?  |
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Post by zeebra on Apr 6, 2017 14:18:10 GMT
You are abut to drive up, IIRC, a very steep hill to Babbacombe in your Opel Rekord C estate which were, again IIRC, available from Vauxhall dealers in the UK. I'm sure dad looked at one when he bought the 101 estate but didn't like it because the boot floor wasn't flat at the tailgate end.
BTW those strides are mega.
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 6, 2017 16:18:23 GMT
Yes, and checking the UK brochure of the time this 3-door 'Caravan' (Estate) body was definitely available over in the UK too, but I don't think I ever saw one so can't have sold many
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Post by genegenie on Apr 6, 2017 18:42:50 GMT
Yes, and checking the UK brochure of the time this 3-door 'Caravan' (Estate) body was definitely available over in the UK too, but I don't think I ever saw one so can't have sold many Don't remember any 3 door "Car-a-vans" at all! There wasn't that many of the 5 door estates sold in the UK either, although I do remember one well looked after bronze one, I used to see semi regularly in Luton on the way to primary school in mornings driven by a jacket and tie wearing mature man. The car was a few years old then (that was around 1980). I may have seen it years later, the other side of town in Tennyson road. So maybe that's where it lived, but that was a long time ago too. |
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Post by bent8rover on Apr 14, 2017 20:38:03 GMT
What a fuss I made of this one.. The hotel on the left is named Rei Manuel, which was a Portugese king. However, the cars on the street look to be US models and the tram stock is not Lisbon's type. So went off to find a match with any Sao Paolo or Rio hotel plazas. Anyhow, the people are in winter clothing, which still pointed more to north-eastern Europe. After all, Spontin Maes Pils is a Belgian lager.. ...then sussed it when finding Antwerp's old tram stock  It's Antwerpen-Centraal railway station and this is what it looks like today  tinyurl.com/mbff9epI need a life |
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