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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Sandsailsun] #250581
03/19/2021 09:38 PM
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OK, let's give this one a try. Please forgive the image quality -- it was taken at dusk and cropped from a small section of a cell phone photo. If no one recognizes it, I'll post a version that is zoomed out a bit more.

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250594
03/20/2021 08:28 AM
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That is hauntingly familiar - I know I've been there but can't quite place it. The buildings look European but the water tower is uniquely American... Annapolis, MD?


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Zanshin] #250608
03/20/2021 09:33 AM
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That's what I was thinking, either Annapolis or Baltimore.


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250610
03/20/2021 09:37 AM
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That makes three of us.


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fran] #250618
03/20/2021 10:21 AM
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Let's go straight to a big hint.

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250621
03/20/2021 10:25 AM
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Wow, OK, we are all SO wrong!! laugh Someone else say it, as I don't have any pictures..


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250623
03/20/2021 10:42 AM
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Of course - I knew I'd been there before.

Ellis Island, New York


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Zanshin] #250627
03/20/2021 10:52 AM
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Exactly. Shot from Liberty State Park in Jersey City.

Here's a brighter photo taken from a short distance away.

Dan cheers

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250632
03/20/2021 11:09 AM
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That was a good one - the original picture had enough hints that it should have been recognizable smile

Here's my next offering, what city is this in?

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250702
03/21/2021 07:44 AM
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Hmm... I thought that this image would be guessed quite quickly. Here's another picture from the same city

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250703
03/21/2021 07:50 AM
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Hard to see but the writing on the building looks like something in an Asian language. Possibly Japanese or Chinese. I think there's a tower like that in Tokyo but don't think that's this one.


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250706
03/21/2021 08:27 AM
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Tokyo Tower is a replica of the Eiffel Tower (just made a couple of feet higher than the original) but this city is closer to Tokyo than it is to Paris smile


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250710
03/21/2021 08:41 AM
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2nd pic gave it with Frans answer,I think its Kobe

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250720
03/21/2021 09:16 AM
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The language puzzled me - English on the tower and possibly characters on the building (or was that something you obscured?). Then there's the palm tree so I'll try Okinawa?
Don't know a city name.

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250729
03/21/2021 10:36 AM
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Sleepychef - you have it. It is indeed the city of Kobé, where I grew up and spent my youth smile The first picture is Kobe Tower, the second is monument to the Hanshin Earthquake 1995 in which I lost a number of my school classmates.


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250738
03/21/2021 12:11 PM
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sorry to hear about your classmates, I remember it due to how fast they sorted their roads.

View is from standing on a famous bridge

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: sleepychef] #250789
03/22/2021 09:13 AM
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I recognize this for some reason...haven't been...but is it in Italian Alps?

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250818
03/22/2021 01:47 PM
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Northside of them, not Italy

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: sleepychef] #250827
03/22/2021 04:06 PM
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St Moritz??

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250832
03/22/2021 07:37 PM
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Mostar Bridge? Famous high dive spot.


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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250839
03/22/2021 09:33 PM
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Neutral Country, no diving from this bridge

Google allowed

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250843
03/22/2021 11:07 PM
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Easy country hint....Switzerland.
But I don’t know city, bridge.

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fran] #250845
03/23/2021 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Fran
Mostar Bridge? Famous high dive spot.
I was going to say Mostar but if it is Switzerland then I've no idea. The only 'famous' bridge I can think of is Luzerne and the photo is definitely not from that bridge.

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250846
03/23/2021 05:54 AM
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OK, had to Google. Lavertezzo double arch bridge? Apparently while people don't jump from the actual bridge they do jump from the rocks under it. Beautiful spot but jumping is not for me. yikes

If correct someone else go ahead and post the next photo please.

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250872
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Correct Fran

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250893
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Photos anyone?

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250907
03/23/2021 07:47 PM
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So I’ll go. Pictures getting slim.

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Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250929
03/24/2021 07:14 AM
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Ok so hint. Large US university that fell big in recent basketball game.

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250932
03/24/2021 07:56 AM
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One was Ohio State

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250933
03/24/2021 08:23 AM
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Yup you are correct

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: Fred] #250936
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One of many tough losses in the brackets this year.

Re: Game Time Part 19 [Re: EllenS] #250940
03/24/2021 09:05 AM
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Hi. Whoever posts the next picture, please start a new thread. Thanks.


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