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Google Maps: Grit, Funny, WTF, Anything Interesting
Since I've got extra time on my hands now (retirement), I thought I'd do more exploring of Google Maps. I don't remember seeing a thread with what folks have discovered on the site, so why not?
I'll start with a short series from North Philly; I saw a guy running down the street and it seemed he wasn't just jogging: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1449/2...707df645_h.jpg So I checked closer: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1458/2...fe4eea20_h.jpg Sure enough..... so I followed his progress down the block: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1669/2...7cd5b50e_h.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1563/2...2e788831_h.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1696/2...4efd2e1c_o.png This is the closest he got: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1681/2...3906c7be_h.jpg It was the end of the block and he disappeared. I wonder what happened to him (and the Google driver)? |
I havent ever found anything funny but I spend hours everyday on google earth mapping out places in PA, WV, OH, VA, etc on the National Register of Historic Places, and other places I want to photograph or have photographed. Been making this map for two years now, got over 10,000 spots on it of historic value.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1710/...2531de39_o.jpgdfd by photolitherland, on Flickr |
Maybe he just really wants to be on Google Maps.
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I can buy that. Or maybe he doesn't want to be known around the world. :shrug: :D Some San Francisco: A somber alley: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1550/2...10793579_h.jpg Maybe he ate a bad slice of pizza: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1524/2...b52ba4a0_h.jpg I don't know what's going on here: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1490/2...eb545fa8_o.png |
The Google car caught my sister and my brother-in-law sitting on their front porch.
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Here's a block in East Baltimore (near Johns Hopkins Hospital), in 2009. This is now gone and replaced with a new elementary school (2012): http://hendersonhopkins.org/About/factsheet.html
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1651/2...419199cf_h.jpg Progress. :) |
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Wow. Brutal but fascinating. |
Here's some grit from a small city just outside of Pittsburgh; McKeesport, PA. I visited the town over ten years ago, and as of 2013 it's still got plenty of grit:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1703/2...a41852d5_h.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1487/2...2e192734_h.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1718/2...0af28bd9_h.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1594/2...1b0152c7_h.jpg Dead End Street 1: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1486/2...33c65bcb_h.jpg I did notice the house at the end of the street above seems occupied: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1495/2...f1b8a99e_h.jpg I see this old guy is trying to clear out the entrance to his side yard: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1585/2...9a2e76ff_h.jpg Dead end street 2. Looks like the house on the right might be occupied....decent chairs on the porch. :shrug: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1562/2...fdb5a1c3_h.jpg :( |
Wow. Looks worse than Calcutta. Population peaked in 1940, now only slightly more than a third of the peak.
Historical population Census Pop. %± 1850 1,392 — 1860 2,166 55.6% 1870 2,523 16.5% 1880 8,212 225.5% 1890 20,741 152.6% 1900 34,227 65.0% 1910 42,694 24.7% 1920 46,781 9.6% 1930 54,632 16.8% 1940 55,355 1.3% 1950 51,502 −7.0% 1960 45,489 −11.7% 1970 37,977 −16.5% 1980 31,012 −18.3% 1990 26,016 −16.1% 2000 24,040 −7.6% 2010 19,731 −17.9% Est. 2014 19,561 −0.9% Wookie's Pedia |
^ Yep, it's a sad situation. There's quite a few towns around Pittsburgh in the same shape. :(
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Every town down the Monongahela just past downtown Pittsburgh is more or less like McKeesport. Duquesne, Braddock, North Braddock, Homestead, Clairton, Glassport, Brownsville, Monesson are all destroyed and have been hugely declining since the death of the steel mills. Same goes for many of the towns west of Pittsburgh down the Ohio River.
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Tafi Viejo, Argentina
http://i.imgur.com/EHaFxQ9.jpg Link: https://www.google.com.ar/maps/@-26....7i13312!8i6656 |
Boring, Oregon
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CebQKKQWIAQ7TfF.jpg:large Weed, California https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CebQmy3WsAQWeqR.jpg:large |
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I'm guessing he got into the car, but it looks like he got a ticket (fire hydrant) before he could move the rascal. :D
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1554/2...c56753b2_h.jpg |
I might make the owner of this little rascal an offer he can't refuse....
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1490/2...84babef2_h.jpg Cause when you walk out the front door and turn right, this is the view: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1494/2...153dde7b_h.jpg :tup: |
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Amsterdam, NY:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1550/2...08c3f13c_h.jpg From 2007: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1604/2...44f0e7a7_h.jpg Same place from 2014: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1487/2...2190f1e2_h.jpg Amsterdam is about 36 miles west of Albany. It had a population of about 35,000 back in 1930, but not much more than half of that now. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amster...ity),_New_York |
"Glass" restrooms in Sulphur Springs, TX:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1551/2...41ad376a_h.jpg And a video of the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Okw7fkwGfk :D |
I wonder how the java tastes at this place:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1441/2...c798747d_b.jpg :uhh: |
Can you find Waldo?
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1675/2...3a5d53f2_o.png How about now. https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1573/2...76e37303_h.jpg ;) |
Before/After
Southeast DC 2007 https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1625/2...116e6265_h.jpg 2014 https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1613/2...dfd5b10d_h.jpg |
The tree that grew accidentally amidst construction cycles. . .
Oh, hi, just me hanging out on the construction fence for that Ritz-Carlton mega-complex across the street. . . http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...is/mampo-1.jpg Still growing! I need new shoes please. . . http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...is/mampo-2.jpg Needing some company, this is boring. . . http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...is/mampo-3.jpg Oh, hi grass, howyoudoin'. . . http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...is/mampo-4.jpg I just had no one to tell me that I'd be shade for a head call some day. . . http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...is/mampo-5.jpg I lasted until December 2015, my home now a wider sidewalk. . . http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...is/mampo-6.jpg Great thread idea Ex-Ith! |
^ Thanks CTM, that's cool.
Waaaaay down south in Key West: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1621/2...7ac06bcb_h.jpg |
Its been updated but google maps got my mom bending over with her ass in the air weeding our front garden haha
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What ever happened to the child labor laws? :shrug:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1706/2...caa88974_h.jpg |
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I think I found a kardashian
http://i.imgur.com/E7Llgns.jpg |
A skyline and a penis. Where else but SSP
http://i.imgur.com/qNO7f5w.jpg |
Fun additions brickell. :)
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I didn't realize google went on beaches. :shrug: |
Camden, NJ hood.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1593/2...3079fb3e_o.png City Water Tank in deserted area of city. https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1646/2...a2f472e8_h.jpg Searching the debris under a tree next to the Water Tank (noticed the pink cart to carry away any goodies). https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1604/2...7c88a970_o.png Money exchanging hands (?). https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1630/2...9a4d9620_o.png |
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Before/After in Cincinnati's Over-The-Rhine
Intersection of 14th and Republic: looking from the north in 2014 https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1614/2...117f0746_h.jpg looking from the west in 2015 https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1663/2...fb6e87d2_o.png :) |
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me in the red car...
http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/163073732/original.jpg ...taking this photo http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/142934573/original.jpg - |
^ LSyd, you rascal, that is so cool. :tup:
@ sirrob - kind of, but on the other side of the city. And there are hundreds of blocks in Baltimore that would fit the Hamsterdam mode. :( |
I wonder if the Mob is getting ready for war and going to the mattresses?
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1606/2...2e3a9de5_h.jpg :shrug: |
End of the road, somewhere in Colombia...
[img]http://i.imgur.com/g8o5l4y.jpg[/img] |
:shrug:Somewhere in Bhutan:shrug:
edit: well you learn something new every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallu...ings_in_Bhutan http://i.imgur.com/2D1O6wn.jpg |
^ LOL, I wonder what kind of facility is in that building. Great find brickell.
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^In Bhutan that is a fairly common decoration of cultural significance. Odd for sure by our standarrds, but it shouldn't be hard to find a lot more of them.
North Americans are so uptight. :haha: |
^Just wondering what the cultural significance entails? I'm not trying to be a smart ass HIMS, really curious.
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^Well, if you wanted to know... Phallus Paintings in Bhutan
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A brief visit to one block of Greenmount Ave. in the Johnston Square neighborhood of East Baltimore.
Looks like he's nodding out (there was another guy in a close by block doing the same): https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1545/2...80b16d4b_h.jpg Next some excitement near the end of the block: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1667/2...bd6fab54_h.jpg I thought the guy in the uniform was a cop, but then realized he was probably a corrections officer from the jail in the background on the left. https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1610/2...f5f5b18e_h.jpg I've driven on Greenmount a couple of times, and it is an interesting drive. |
What is likely the smallest police station in the country:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1493/2...fe70c9ca_h.jpg I guess prisoners stay cuffed to the bench. :shrug: :D |
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