Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Oct 16 2007, 11:23 PM) [snapback]526666[/snapback]</div>

Try again, posted previously, Eagle's Nest.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Oct 16 2007, 11:26 PM) [snapback]526669[/snapback]</div>

Sorry, Fields open for anyone who wants to post. It is time for bed for me.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Oct 16 2007, 11:38 PM) [snapback]526703[/snapback]</div>

Checked locations for Spiderman and Charlottes Web.
Im stuck.

 

"Attempts to harvest silk from spider farms has proven impractical because the aggressive, territorial nature of spiders makes them difficult to domesticate."

Well, so much for it being some sort of silk farm.

Is this place famous, Evan, or a play on words like spider, web, arachnid, black-widow, tarantula, etc.?

Oh wait - DUH ----

Saddam's Spider Hole - Of Course!!

Evan, why don't you put up the next one in your roster - you've got 'em ready to go & I'd have to hunt the damn planet to find something and it's big and I'm small.

Good pick - and I'm amazed it's taken this long for that hideout to make its appearance here.

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Oct 17 2007, 04:43 PM) [snapback]527068[/snapback]</div>

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OK I searched the topic and did not find this. So here goes

 

No Street View, so it's outside the LA/San Diego area. It's beachfront, with what I'll guess are the SP tracks the old SP Daylight ran on. But there's nothing around Oxnard or Santa Barbara that matches. Well, if not beachfront, waterfront definitely. Hmmm.

Palm trees signify Mediterranean climate, so we can safely rule out Norway, Greenland, and Baffin Island, narrowing the hunt considerably.

Single tennis court and simple rectangular pool signify a modest income, as well as the fact that the property adjoins railroad tracks - the wrong side of the tracks at that (a truly wealthy person would have built on the water side of the tracks, or more likely had the tracks rerouted altogether). Resident could be only one or two figures away from having to subsist on food stamps.

When we find out whose place this is that paragraph is probably gonna look silly, but for now I'll have some fun.

So can you Google "Joe Famous's Place" and it'll highlight the house? Has our personal privacy been THAT eroded? Wow.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Oct 17 2007, 04:46 PM) [snapback]527093[/snapback]</div>

LOL thats what I thought.Except I found a different address.359 N Bristol Ave

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 17 2007, 05:44 PM) [snapback]527113[/snapback]</div>

I just noticed the "Traffic" button.I think that limits the search to certain areas on the fringe of streetview cities and maybe some others in the contiguous USA.No "traffic " in Hawaii.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 17 2007, 07:28 PM) [snapback]527121[/snapback]</div>

Clue #1 This was the home of a very famous person. Now deceased. Good pick Mojo. It is in the USA.

If you find the location, it is not enough. Tell me who lived there.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Oct 17 2007, 07:16 PM) [snapback]527139[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Clemente...p;z=19&om=1
Richard Nixons San Clemente home

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 17 2007, 07:23 PM) [snapback]527142[/snapback]</div>

This place is pictured in the final scenes of an early 90s Hollywood feature.I gather its a major tourist attraction.Although it sounds funny to call it that.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 17 2007, 07:43 PM) [snapback]527153[/snapback]</div>

There are a lot of famous people here.There are artists ,writers ,politicians,musicians.An American in particular draws a lot of attention.This place has been here since 1804.The well known American since 1971.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 18 2007, 12:26 AM) [snapback]527203[/snapback]</div>

Founding date makes it easy. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=48.8...p;z=16&om=1

Give me a second for more details.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise for details on Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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This is well over a hundred years older than the previous site. You might search here for a fairy tale author.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Oct 17 2007, 11:43 PM) [snapback]527209[/snapback]</div>

Help please.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 18 2007, 06:17 PM) [snapback]527490[/snapback]</div>

Yes its a cemetery and if I goose you a bit you might get figure out the earlier clue.

 

A little goose, a little google....Granary Burial Ground, Boston.
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From goose to nearly golden, don't slip up with this one...
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