Google Maps: Grit, Funny, WTF, Anything Interesting - Page 11

Tucumanisfuture · #**201** Posted **Apr 15, 2017, 7:53 PM**

Ex-Ithacan · #**202** Posted **Apr 19, 2017, 1:07 AM**

Just north of St Louis, MO is the nearly empty Jamestown Mall:

Ex-Ithacan · #**203** Posted **Apr 21, 2017, 10:48 PM**

Some Kansas City, MO: good & bad

Somebody really likes blue.

A funky little alleyway.

A great looking old theater with an appropriate name.

Two museums in one building.

The American Jazz Museum
https://americanjazzmuseum.org/

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
http://www.nlbm.com/

Ex-Ithacan · #**204** Posted **Apr 26, 2017, 11:45 PM**

A few more of Bogota, Columbia

Let's go up the hill.

An interesting little curve area.

Ex-Ithacan · #**205** Posted **May 3, 2017, 12:58 AM**

I found this "gated" (?) community in Lima. I guess they really don't want any through traffic.

I guess the google driver tipped the guy with the key.

deja vu · #**206** Posted **May 3, 2017, 2:06 AM**

That's different. I wonder how common that is.

franktko · #**207** Posted **May 3, 2017, 9:40 PM**

A Before and After shows new towers in Montreal

August 2011

August 2016

Ex-Ithacan · #**208** Posted **May 4, 2017, 10:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by deja vu

That's different. I wonder how common that is.

I don't know, I just stumbled across it.

@ franktko - heck of a change in 5 years.

Ex-Ithacan · #**209** Posted **May 8, 2017, 12:06 AM**

Little Italy in New York

Looks like Chinatown may be taking over

Just for the heck of it, a shot of Newark, NJ

Ex-Ithacan · #**210** Posted **May 16, 2017, 10:39 PM**

Some Albany, NY grit, though many look like they could be rehab material:

Ex-Ithacan · #**211** Posted **Jun 2, 2017, 12:23 AM**

I never did make it to Sioux City when I visited Iowa four years ago. So I decided to check it out on goolge maps. Here's an neighborhood just outside downtown. A little rough around the edges, but that's the kind of area I often visit when on a trip.

First an aerial of downtown

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

Residential

Something looks out of place

A small business section in the neighborhood

deja vu · #**212** Posted **Jun 2, 2017, 2:33 AM**

It looks from that aerial view like the entire downtown core is connected by sky bridges / elevated pedestrian tunnels. Pretty cool.

Ex-Ithacan · #**213** Posted **Jun 2, 2017, 9:28 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by deja vu

It looks from that aerial view like the entire downtown core is connected by sky bridges / elevated pedestrian tunnels. Pretty cool.

Cold, but not the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field.......

Ex-Ithacan · #**214** Posted **Jun 25, 2017, 3:48 PM**

Wilmington, Delaware - urbanity in a small space.

Ex-Ithacan · #**215** Posted **Sep 9, 2017, 7:39 PM**

It's been a while, but I hope to get back in the swing of posting in this thread.

Harrisburg, PA residential areas

However, Harrisburg like many other northeastern cities has plenty of grit too.

An aerial shot of the northern part of the city where some of the blocks are quite empty (a la Detroit)

Now some grit

nice to see flowers in the hood

Lastly, the corner of Summit & Christian in 2011

And in 2015

deja vu · #**216** Posted **Sep 10, 2017, 10:41 PM**

The railroad tracks in Harrisburg form a huge physical barrier that bisects the city and cuts off the north side. There are multiple socio-economic factors at play here, but I've wondered how things would have looked if the tracks were never there.

franktko · #**217** Posted **Sep 13, 2017, 4:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

It's been a while, but I hope to get back in the swing of posting in this thread.

Glad to hear this! I enjoy your posts very much

Ex-Ithacan · #**218** Posted **Sep 16, 2017, 9:50 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by franktko

Glad to hear this! I enjoy your posts very much

Thanks frank.

Ex-Ithacan · #**219** Posted **Sep 17, 2017, 12:27 AM**

Thought I'd get away from city life. I checked out Pine Ridge, SD (a Census Designated Place) which is part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_R...an_Reservation )

In many ways it seems as down in the dumps as some of the city grit posts. There are many problems including an uptick in the murder rate (for 2016):
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/loc...6bd807379.html

Anyway on to some pics.

Yippee....a Pizza Hut

Admin building for the Ogala Sioux

There is a bus system

I didn't know there were still Sinclair gas stations

Taxes no matter where you go