My friend Jaquandor at Byzantium's Shores regularly posts a feature called, Unidentified Earth, for which he posts a Google Earth image and asks his readers to indentify it. I always enjoy having a look, although I've only posted my guess twice and got it right only once (the image was of the ruins at Tintagel in Corwall, England).Well, he's a lot more intellectual and Earth conscious than I am, so I don't think he'll find my homage to his feature threatening or competitive in the least. He's not that kind of guy anyway.
In mine, which I'll call "Famous Places", I'll show you images that reflect my, erm, fascination with the famous and infamous. Instead of Earth's places, the focus is on her better known children. Hey, what do you expect? I was born and raised only a stone's throw from Hollywood!
So are you ready to guess what this location is? Go ahead! Want a hint? Here it is:
Although it's in the United States, people often think it's somewhere else.
Click the image to enlarge it for better viewing.
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UPDATE: Ville guessed the location! The answer is in the comments, so if you still want to wonder with yourself, do not read them past comment #10.
Thanks for playing!
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UPDATE: Ville guessed the location! The answer is in the comments, so if you still want to wonder with yourself, do not read them past comment #10.
Thanks for playing!
22 comments:
Is it the stretch of road where I lost my innocence?
I think I need a nuther hint.
Quite possibly!
2nd Hint: Many hundreds of people did.
The only thing the image gives us is that it's a place with trees and a road. Probably not in a city, but it could be an undeveloped area of a city park. I doubt that even people who had been there would be likely to recognize it from that aerial view. Your second hint made me think that it might be the site of Woodstock, but that wouldn't fit your first hint.
You mean it's the road that shot JFK?
I feel stoopid.
That's it! It's the grassy knoll.
Crap,I know it(I think)but can't think of the name!Damn!Brain freeze!
Good guess, but no. Want another hint?
We've all been there and seen it from different vantage points, even aerial.
Hi Steph,
It looks to me, a fellow native Southern Californian, like the famous "deserted" stretch of road on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, up in the hills, which used to be famous, and probably still is, as a place for dates to "make-out".
Marti
Marti, you are so.very.close.
"Through early morning fog I see, visions of the things to be, the pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see..."
I think it's the site in the Santa monica mountains where the TV series M*A*S*H* was filmed.
Ville got it! That's the location where M*A*S*H was filmed.
Malibu Creek State Park (Formerly Fox Ranch)
N34° 05.790 x W118° 44.695
Excellent, Ville!!
Can I ask what "Many hundreds of people did" means? "Did" what? Lose their innocence there? ;-)
Sorry. I'm just confused.
That was in response to B.E. Earl's first comment in which he asked if it was where he lost his innocence.
As you know, M*A*S*H was about war and in one aspect, it spoke to many people in our age group and younger about how stupid and pointless war is. People in Ville's age group, for instance, were at the tail-end of the Viet Nam war and were only small children when it ended. M*A*S*H woke many of them up to the absurdity of war. In the dramatic aspect, it portrayed a war where many young people indeed lost their innocence. People like Radar.
Oh, I get it! You were being philosophical instead of flippant like b. e. earl was. I think I must be in a literal mood these days. Actually, it did occur to me that this is what you meant, but I couldn't think of the word "philosophical" before. (Gettin' old is hell.)
Thanks!
Excellent selection, Steph!
Now your comment that many people think that it's somewhere other than in the US makes sense.......
Marti
Thanks for playing, everyone!
(Word Verification for this comment:
kpooz.
"I am from the planet Kpooz."
I'm glad the answer already came out, but I would have had to disqualify myself since I used that same locale for one of my Unidentified Earth entries.
And you've had TWO right answers -- you also got Land's End in Cornwall!
Great minds think alike! And I got Land's End?? Wow!
I doff my hat and bow with a flourish!
That was in response to B.E. Earl's first comment in which he asked if it was where he lost his innocence.
As you know, M*A*S*H was about war and in one aspect, it spoke to many people in our age group and younger about how stupid and pointless war is. People in Ville's age group, for instance, were at the tail-end of the Viet Nam war and were only small children when it ended. M*A*S*H woke many of them up to the absurdity of war. In the dramatic aspect, it portrayed a war where many young people indeed lost their innocence. People like Radar.
Oh, I get it! You were being philosophical instead of flippant like b. e. earl was. I think I must be in a literal mood these days. Actually, it did occur to me that this is what you meant, but I couldn't think of the word "philosophical" before. (Gettin' old is hell.)
Thanks!
You mean it's the road that shot JFK?
I feel stoopid.
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