Last week’s contest was won by John McKay. The correct location was the building in Panama City, Florida where a gunman fired at members of the local school board.
Here’s the week’s, just a random location. Good luck!
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Well i sure hope that brick memorial tower on the corner helps?
@1 That’s my thinking too. Have spent way too much time searching images with keywords clock+tower+brick+railroad, etc…
With the railroad tracks I was thinking light rail – but there are no power lines – that’s regular rail.
The architecture looks east of Mississippi – I was thinking about checking out the commuter rail lines around Boston, Philly, NY, Chicago and any of the inner burbs of each – but way too much time today – other commitments alas…
This is a tough one, will give a clue if no one has it by tomorrow morning…
It has a St Louis, mid western feel to it.
Well, there’s a sign on the light pole at the bottom. It appears to maybe be a sign marking a highway intersection. The right part of the sign looks like the state of Indiana.
Hmmm…it looks to me like the clock is at 3:45, and given two moving vehicles, it is probably 3:45 PM.
If so, North is to the left, and the RR tracks run East-West. And, given how long the shadows are, it is winter and/or fairly far north. Of course the clock could be wrong, or I could be mis-reading the time….
One other point…there seems to be regional variation on how stop lights are hung. In parts of the midwest, they don’t seem to string them on wires.
More importantly, in many parts of the country, stoplights are found on both the near and far side of the intersection (like this picture from Madison, WI or this picture from Philly).
Portland has the lights on the far side only (from my brief search).
If we jump across the river to Vancouver, stop lights are on the far side of the intersection only.
I don’t know how generally these trends hold, but my guess is that big chunks of the East and Midwest can be ruled out based on the fact that stoplights are far-side only in the mystery location. My 2 cents….
@7
This one’s certainly tough. One clue and one clarification:
– This is at the default orientation (top of the picture is north)
– It’s in the southeastern U.S.
Lee,
That would be Simpsonville, SC.
Here is the Bing maps image.
@9
Good win!
@ 10,
Here’s a better link.
Darryl @7:
Could it instead have been 9:15am? If the clock is correct, that would explain why the shadows extend from the lower-right toward the upper-left of the image.
Then again, who’s to say that the clock is even running?
Don Joe,
Thanks…I thought that was what I was linking to @10.
Wow. Every other view of the clock tower has it looking open — but the south side’s different. See?
N in Seattle,
I probably is reading 9:20 or so. I had my head stuck in the NW or else I might have found it…in my experience, it is very common to hang street lights from horizontal cables in hurricane-prone places.
After Lee’s clue, I started doing Google image searches like ‘Florida “clock tower”‘. South Carolina was my third state. It took less than 10 minutes total to find the location.
wes.in.wa,
here is the image (on the left) that ID’ed the location.
The somewhat distinctive thing about the tower is the square clock face. After looking at numerous images of clock towers, I didn’t see very many square clock faces. The diamond above the face was the deal-maker….
@16
Yep, when I first picked this location, I tried to Google it in the image search. Putting in “clock tower South Carolina” turned it right up. Of course, I knew no one would know it was in South Carolina, so I was curious to see if there was another way to get it (I Got Nuthin was trying some good ideas). Often times, when I think something is impossible, Wes or Milwhcky will still get it right away. This time, it was definitely as hard as it seemed.
Lee,
Love these extra tough ones that take a day or two to solve…