Where is this?
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(Photo by Margaret Sedenquist)
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Where is this?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/.../mystery-5.jpg
(Photo by Margaret Sedenquist)
Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC.
{You are correct -- I guess this was too easy?}
Here's a few shots:
church interior
a bunch of fur seals (mature males are 3 times the size of the females)
a puffin
some cliffs where the birds breed
a monument in the church yard commemorating the WWII relocation of the native population to Funter Bay down near Juneau.
This little bit of WWII history is overlooked. Unlike the relocation of the west coast Japanese, this wasn't done out of fear OF those relocated, but of fear FOR those relocated (US expected Japan to invade the islands). That aside, the impact ON those relocated was as bad, if not worse as the Japanese relocation. St. Paul residents had 24 hour notice to pack, the facilities at Funter Bay was an old abandoned factory, etc. etc. Many died and those who returned to their homes discovered some damage and looting from soldiers stationed there. Even the church supposedly lost some items.
I doubt anybody's been there, but who knows
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Nothing really stands out in this photo -- We may need a "lifeline" here...
Here's another location :
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3605/...50b2d97e_o.jpg
A racetrack someplace for the 2nd....?
It's is an abandoned horse race track located in the south west. The first was never in use, the second was used for 2 seasons only and it went bankrupt.
With that very helpful clue -- I would think the 2nd one is the defunct grayhound racing park in Tucson, Arizona.
I could probably find the fort location too....
Mark
Nope, not in Tucson, it's located along a major interstate in AZ, I bet Buck or Brad would know in an instant.
As for the fort, it's on an island in a strategic location. There was another fort there before they built this one. It is privately owned since 1936 and the present owner has been trying to sell the property on eBay for years.
I got it! The Fort is Fort Montgomery at Rouses Point, NY on Lake Champlain. And here's a photo to prove it!
And the dog racing park might be the one in Phoenix?
Mark
Yes, Fort Montgomery built in 1844.
The race track is in Goodyear west of Phoenix, it is called the Phoenix Trotting Park. It was featured in the movie No Code of Conduct (which I haven't seen).
Who built this, who owns it now?
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http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...lue-5-23-1.jpg
Ya gotta give us a little more of a visual hint about where it might be....
On the basis of the trees -- California foothills -- Gold Country maybe?
By the way.... are you a CAL graduate -- (username?) I am an alumn -- 1978-Environmental Sciences
M
1970 L&S Computer Science (later department was folded into EE CS). Go Bears!
Not California.
Here's a photo taken a couple miles from this spot.
I was thinking it might have been the log cabin that the first territorial government for Colorado met in Colorado Springs, formerly called Colorado City, but that's the wrong river.
And, indeed... Go Bears!
Mark
So, it's got to be close to Denver.... hmmmm
I was thinking it could be the Burgess cabin on the property of the Air Force Academy -- but there are too many trees....
It must be within 50 miles of Denver -- but I don't know how to find it....
Is that the Josie Bassett Morris cabin in Dinosaur National Monument?
Yep, thanks for that -- the trees and all look right in this photo....
Where is this?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/stripes.jpg
Yep. Josie lived (essentially) alone in that cabin for decades, into her 80s or 90s. She was one of the Brown's Park Bassetts, her sister Ann(e) was called "Queen of the Rustlers".
Josie herself went through 4 or 5 husbands, including one she was suspected of murdering. She was also accused of being a rustler, moonshiner, and a poacher.
Never convicted (Josie knew enough to enlist a high ranking Mormon leader as her attorney; this being Utah after all).
Also suspected of being, in her youth, one of Butch Cassidy's "girlfriends".
I love this character and her family!
Here's an interior:
I am going to hazard a guess, The Black canyon of the Gunnison ?
and here's a RTA article about the location -- which more accurately is named "Painted Wall". But your photo is very nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Mark
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...mystery-10.jpg
(Photo by Dan Sedenquist)
Where is this?
Appears to be the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse in Santa Cruz, now home to a surfing museum.
http://www.santacruzsurfingmuseum.or...nfo/index.html
I've watched some amazing surfing performances at Steamer Lane just beyond this spot!
Mark
Where is this? What kind of ship is that?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...stery-boat.jpg
(Another one by Dan Sedenquist)
although I have a pretty concrete idea where this is.
P.S. Nice shot!
And a great clue....
M
...just an apt osbervation on my part.
While there are actually several concrete ships littering America's shores, including the SS Atlantis in New Jersey and the SS Selma off Galveston, TX, I believe that the pier marks this one as the SS Palo Alto off Seacliff Beach (Santa Cruz), California. Most of these ships were built for the Emergency Fleet of WW-I.
AZBuck
......as the concrete ships, all 8 of 'em, forming the breakwater for the old Kiptopeake to Little Creek ferry from the Eastern Shore to Norfolk, VA, prior to the 1964 opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Now home to Kiptopeake State Park, the ships now form a protected fishing area available to kayakers and other small boat skippers
Any sailor ordered to cross the Atlantic on those vessels had very large, entirely solid brass accoutrements. I'd have thrown myself overboard instead of setting sail on those boats. Men, I guess, were men.
Foy
Yep, that is the Palo Alto, the concrete boat that was intended to be a supply ship, but never quite got "into the action."
Here's the short history from the Seacliff State Beach web site:
In 1910 a Norwegian civil engineer named Fougner thought of using concrete to build ships. It wasn't until 1917, when wartime steel shortages required the use of cement for construction that Fougner's idea was used. Three concrete ships were built at the U.S. Naval Shipyard in Oakland, California. These ships were the Faith, the Peralta, and the Palo Alto. The Peralta and the Palo Alto were built for wartime use as tankers, however World WarOne ended before ship construction was finished -- so they were never used.
The Palo Alto remained docked in Oakland until 1929, when the Cal-Nevada Company bought the ship with the idea of making her into an amusement and fishing ship. Her maiden voyage was made under tow to Seacliff State Beach. Once positioned at the beach, the sea cocks were opened and the Palo Alto settled to the ocean bottom. By the summer of 1930 a pier had been built leading to the ship, the ship was remodeled. A dance floor on the main deck was added, also a cafe in the superstructure was built, as was a fifty-four foot heated swimming pool, and a series of carnival type concessions were placed on the afterdeck. The Cal-Nevada Company went broke after two seasons -- then the Palo Alto was stripped, leaving the ship and the pier to be used only for fishing.
Anybody know this place?
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(CalOldBlue)
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(CalOldBlue)
It sorta looks like Precious Moments Park in Carthage, MO 64836?
Farther north, and it is a retail establishment (although a tourist mecca too). I'll post an interior I took if you think it won't put us on the wrong side of copyright issues.
Santa's Village in East Dundee, Illinois
Technically, the copyright belongs to you if you took the photo....Quote:
I'll post an interior I took if you think it won't put us on the wrong side of copyright issues.
Mark
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Here's the interior... in theory, for commercial purposes, property owners MAY require prior approval for shooting in/on their property. Not sure it would ever become an issue, esp as this gives them some free publicity, but then I'm neither a lawyer nor a professional photog but as this is being used as a report on a travel destination and not being plastered on a tshirt for sale we'll just call this "editorial fair use":
It's true that commercial property owners can request that no photographs are taken on a property. But once the photograph is taken, 100% of the copyright belongs to the photographer unless he/she sells/grants/leases/etc. a portion of those rights to anyone else.
BRONNER'S CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
From the site:
Bronner's was founded in 1945 by Wally Bronner. When Wally painted his first sign over 50 years ago, little did he dream that his small business would one day become the world's largest Christmas store visited by millions of people. Open 361 days of the year, Bronner's features over 50,000 trims and gifts, including Christmas ornaments, artificial Christmas trees, Christmas lights, Nativity scenes, Christmas decorations, collectibles, and more.
Ye gads, that looks like way too much holiday stuff to me!
Mark