Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 6 2007, 09:43 PM) [snapback]457152[/snapback]</div>

*&%^%#@ I had forgotten that one because when I went back to look the images over I didn't see one in your post and passed right over it! Sorry, it is obviously a crop circle just NE of Sheffield, England. BTW I think it is totally cool it was photographed, anyone know how long a crop circle lasts?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=e...p;z=19&om=1

And now my entry. . .

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As mentioned before it is so tall it started a war.


Wildkow

p.s. BTW, efusco just got through watching "Red Dawn" for the 8th time!

 

Here's Dragonfly's landmark so you can see it ---

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun 6 2007, 09:38 PM) [snapback]457149[/snapback]</div>

Man that was some major league sleuthing! I don't know how you got that even though you were aware of his South American travels. Good job. . . :lol:

BTW, we are left with robincx's harbor image and now mine is that correct?

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 6 2007, 09:55 PM) [snapback]457158[/snapback]</div>

No fair . . . I've been there and done that. Mid 1980's . . . wasn't allowed to bring a camera . . . couldn't make gestures toward the guards on the other side of the line . . . :mellow:

THE IMAGE IS OF THE NORTH KOREAN FLAG POLE NEAR THE DMZ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone


My new image:
It is an extreme close-up.
No hints yet . . . but time may tell????

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 6 2007, 10:17 PM) [snapback]457169[/snapback]</div>

Yep, except for the issue of whether to accept Robincx's entry. I don't mind keeping it, just so long as we don't discover it's the marina at the Olympus Mons Reduced Gravity Golf and Country Club.

Kow, your damn tower is harder to nail down than Evan's waterfall (which is saying something, as anyone who's ever tried to pound nails into a waterfall can attest). All the wars-started-by-radio-tower queries point to the Gliwice wooden tower in Poland that the Nazis staged an attack on in order to invade Poland and start WWII - and that ain't your tower, which looks like a steel lattice in a desert climate. So now we know TWO wars were caused by these towers - we should stop making the things: they're obviously much too dangerous. Next thing you know we'll inadvertantly start WWIII putting up some harmless cellphone repeater too close to an unsuspected sect with religious prohibitions against cellphones, and they get enraged enough to start firing missiles as their chief expression of dissent over the issue.

It's late - I'm gonna go sleep on what sort of landmark to post next.

G'night.

 

Thank you airportkid!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 6 2007, 10:59 PM)</div>

Stonehenge!

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=e...p;z=18&om=1

And I'll refrain from posting a new image until we catch up.

 

Robincx, I think we need a hint!

Here is a new one to chew on in the meantime.
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That is the Tokyo Tower (an Eiffel Tower replica in Shiba Park)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...wloc=A&om=1

Mine will follow shortly!

Guess what ship this is, and where is she berthed (I'll bet Wildkow guesses this one, as he's a nautical enthusiast):
(I'm referring to the largest ship above the bridge)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ Jun 7 2007, 07:48 AM) [snapback]457312[/snapback]</div>

That is BB59 USS Massachussetts tied up at Fall River MA

Now I've got two landmarks due for posting - and a meeting in five minutes, they'll have to wait.

 

OK, this one may be too easy, so I've done something to the image to make it not quite so cut and dried to find. I've never been to this place - in person, that is.

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Well, let's see.

1) It's on a prominent corner.
2) It has plenty of parking.
3) It looks to have a drive-through.

Is it . . . could it be . . . [church lady voice] . . . Starbucks. :huh:

Just kidding.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 7 2007, 09:52 PM) [snapback]457847[/snapback]</div>

We're all going to be embarrassed as hell we didn't get it when we discover it's the original Fred's House of Pancakes! :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 6 2007, 10:59 PM) [snapback]457184[/snapback]</div>

This always works for me. :blink:

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jun 7 2007, 08:50 PM) [snapback]457826[/snapback]</div>

Is that a Palm Tree in the lower right hand corner?

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 8 2007, 09:27 AM) [snapback]458067[/snapback]</div>

I'm with you, Kow, that definitely looks SoCal to me too. My first guess was Nixon's childhood home in Whittier - but it ain't that. Evan says we're on the right track alluding to chain food outlets; perhaps it's the first McDonalds. But I haven't got time right now to chase down in Google where the first McDonalds Burger King Wendys Pizza Hut Togos White Castle Jack In The Box Kentucky Fried Chicken Taco Bell Bobs Big Boy Dennys Lyons Waffle House and all the million other "firsts" are located and then go to maps to see if the address matches the image, so I'm leaving this one to whomever recognizes it straight off (a regular customer, perhaps).

MB

 

Its home of the worlds largest Phillips head screw.

 

OK efusco some hint's are needed! In the meantime try these. . .

WTH!?! :blink: :huh:

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What's happening at this house?

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Bonus points for locations and the story behind them.

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jun 8 2007, 05:47 AM) [snapback]457948[/snapback]</div>

That's enough hint for me, location of the first McDonalds in San Bernadino, CA.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...c=addr&om=1