Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Nov 22 2007, 12:45 AM) [snapback]542790[/snapback]</div>

Here is an eatery that gets some air play on turkey day!

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Nov 22 2007, 12:47 AM) [snapback]542791[/snapback]</div>

Yes I spent a while searching EL Paso also. Finally found a link on the Butterball site that led to http://www.carolinaturkeys.com/foodservice/ and the rest is history. Of course, that is probably not the location of the phone bank that answers the turkey help calls.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Nov 22 2007, 12:08 AM) [snapback]542796[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2875,-73....p;z=17&om=1
Alices Restaurant Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
I never knew that it actually existed .All these years I could have gotten anything I wanted.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Nov 22 2007, 12:08 AM) [snapback]542796[/snapback]</div>

Ill bet thats a call center in India.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 22 2007, 01:08 AM) [snapback]542818[/snapback]</div>

Thanksgiving Square Dallas, TX

I'll post in a moment.

 

A significant event first happened here.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 22 2007, 12:44 PM) [snapback]542931[/snapback]</div>

Another noteworthy America first is claimed to have happened at this location.

1st bourbon whiskey distilled in America in 1621

[edit] Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

That's gotta be Bourbon, Kentucky. I don't have google maps where I am at the moment, so I'll just make it easier for the next poster. No point me slowing the game down with another obscurity from nowhere.

Enjoy your meals.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 22 2007, 03:34 PM) [snapback]542975[/snapback]</div>

You're ice cold. Daniel Boone wasn't born until 1734 and didn't "blaze" the Wilderness Trail until 1775.

Nice guess though.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 22 2007, 09:44 AM) [snapback]542931[/snapback]</div>

Berkeley Plantation, on the James River, Virginia

Whiskey is one of this place's lesser claims to fame.

Too much holiday doings to scout landscapes at the moment - somebody who's already had their 3rd helping of stuffing and apple pie should let out their belt and take over ----

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 22 2007, 02:53 PM) [snapback]542964[/snapback]</div>

Another first for this place:

One of the most famous US Army bugle calls was composed and first played here. Taps

The original first in the post was the first "official" Thanksgiving.

 

Got it one post up. Field's (burp) open ---

MB

 

Here's a fort of a different sort.
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Fort Yukon, Alaska

I'll post in moment.

 

Well, that was quick. This must really be your fort, eh?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 22 2007, 10:07 PM) [snapback]543072[/snapback]</div>

Actually I saw that it was`a braided river. These are almost always associated with glacier runoff or tundra in the summer. Since it was a large river, I went to the Yukon River. Started at the mouth and worked east. There it was.

 

This is on the opposite side of the country from Andy and Barny in Mayberry.

 

Nevermind

<strike>Bestmapman, do you have a place to post yet?</strike>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(orionll @ Nov 22 2007, 11:13 PM) [snapback]543089[/snapback]</div>

Sorry, for some reason the attachment wouldn't work. I finally got it in the above post

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 22 2007, 07:47 PM) [snapback]543082[/snapback]</div>

Thought this was a repeat but a search of the thread reveals this as its first appearance herein ---
Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

Must've been Palomar that showed up earlier.

Fields open - but I may jump in if I find something and no one's posted anything ---

MB