Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky for his fourth in a row. It was the diner in Bloomfield, NJ where the famous last scenes in the Soprano’s were filmed.
This is a 5th Sunday, so for this one, this is related to a news event from the first half of 2013. Good luck!
That is the house at 2207 Seymour Street, Cleveland, OH where Ariel Castro held three women for ten years
http://www.bing.com/maps/#Y3A9.....A9MH4wfjB+
I don’t know how to make the map look like that one though.
@1 Good find! One can get a map location by clicking the envelope icon to Share a view … but it still gives the north-facing view. Here
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Good win!
After that kidnapping story broke, I spent about an hour on Google Street view looking at the streets in that neighborhood so I recognized it right away.
My was struck by the corrosive effects of commercial activity on community. Communities often start because of a meeting point, often some form of commercial activity. But the commercial activity that corrodes a community, leaching out local vitality, is that brought by large corporations, who think of a restaurant as a store. Large corporations can bring economies of scale into a community and provide goods and services at prices far below locally sourced goods. But in doing so, they remove that which is unique to that community, that which is human.
“I had my Burger King” the man said. It wasn’t food, it wasn’t the product of one person’s labor and attention, valued for contribution, it was a corporate food product.
Marx’s unfinished essay about alienation comes to mind. http://www.marxists.org/archiv.....reface.htm What would he say about the dissociation we exhibit in our communities?