Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky. It was Bainbridge Island.
This week’s is related to something in the news from June, good luck!
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I think it’s in the U.S. because (1) cars travel on the right side of the street, (2) architecture of the homes looks American, (3) the crosswalk striping in the lower left corner is a U.S. style of marking crosswalks.
The building at top center is a bank, complete with covered drive-through window to the left of the building, and gravel driveway and parking lot. The slanted layout of the streets and trapezoidal buildings are odd and interesting. So is the positioning of the houses on their lots at the center-right edge of the picture.
The billboard on top of the red-brick building in the lower left corner may be a clue. That looks like a rental truck, maybe a Ryder, parked behind the white building with black roof at center-left.
The vegetation is deciduous trees stripped of their foliage. This is probably in the Northeastern U.S. somewhere, although I wouldn’t completely rule out eastern Canada just yet.
This shouldn’t be too hard for you Google map geniuses. There can’t be very many places that look like this.
The large building with columns at the top is a bank with a drive through. That building is from the 60’s. Opposite it is another building with an awning drive through under the awing. Could be a fast food restaurant. In the third corner of the main intersection is a gas station.
Because of the lack of eave overhangs, I think most of the houses look 50’s and 60’s. I note the detached garages on some houses, could be from the 30’s.
The business ‘south’ of the Ryder truck on the corner has a concrete pad. Another gas station?
Traffic signals are on poles, not suspended from cables. Where in the country is that more prevalent?
The two commercial buildings at the bottom of the picture are brown brick. Probably from the 40’s.
Pity the owners of the house sandwiched between businesses near the large intersection. I may have been turned into a retail business though.
My guess is from a city in America’s rust belt. Gary, Indiana.
@2 Yeah, I think it’s an older city somewhere back east whose glory days are a memory.
Something in the news. It used to be that following the shootings was an easy path, almost a slam dunk. Not so much these days.
Showed up late to the game today, but I recognized this one right away.
It’s the restaurant where the scenes were filmed in the Soprano’s series finale. Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionery in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
The restaurant is on the right side of the street at the north end of the long black-roofed building, next to the small house.
RIP James.
Good win, by the way.
I thought it might have something to do with marijuana, so I started polling the states looking for marijuana events in the last month. I started at Illinois and went through Mass. Didn’t get a hit.
With regard to the recent death of James Gandolfini, this is what I think his heart said: https://twitter.com/daguro/status/348919536109641728
@5
Good win!
The fact that I’m only getting to this now is a good indication of how insane my weekend/week has been.
Looks a lot like Cottage Fucking Grove to me