It's the garage where Hewlett Packard was started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eris
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It's the garage where Hewlett Packard was started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eris
The ruins are in the same region, but it's not Mesa Verde.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
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Originally Posted by Kestrel
Well done – that is the garage as it is today.
Silicon Valley started here: It is Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, CA.
This is the official plague at the front of the house/garage showing the birth place of HP computers and Silicon Valley in 1938.
http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...sphoto/103.jpg
Interestingly Steve Jobs (Apple) currently lives round the corner from this garage just over a mile away.
Just looked up where his (and Apple) start-up garage was – about 10 miles away at Los Altos. He only goes back to 1976/7.
Ansel Adams has photographed these same ruins.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
Where am I standing? Name of the place.
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...3/P7180227.jpg
of Border Field State Park looking south into Mexico.
But then my first two ideas about the garage were Lizzy Borden's house and the Wright Brothers' house!
AZBuck
Known as the White House, because of the white-washed stone walls....Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
(Another example of an excellent clue...thanks!)
Mark
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Originally Posted by AZBuck
Correct! Doesn't seem like many people visit that area. It was just me and the Border Patrol.
Yeah, that's my guess too.Quote:
Originally Posted by AZBuck
Yup, they are the White House Ruins in Canyon de Chelly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
A classic mountain view.
Where is it?
That says Grand Tetons to me...?
The French explorers who named the mountains thought the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
Now for something a bit tougher. Where is this window?
The Mount Carmel Tunnel in Zion?
Looking NW out of the tunnel opening about 1/2 mile south of the Great Arch on UT-9.....
Mark
How about this one?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/4...fd12a8.jpg?v=0
That is the corner of Main and Mulberry in Beaumont, TX.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
Do you have a photo of the giant fireplug in the middle of the little park?
You guys are good at this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Can you tell me where this scenic drive is?
My guess would be hwy 128 heading to Moab, Utah.
Yup, it's my favorite way to get to Moab.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollin'
Where is this scruffy looking group?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/door.jpg
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Originally Posted by Kestrel
Yep - that's the one!
I may- but I don't have a clue what a fireplug is? :s
That device which supplies water for the fire department, er, fire brigade, is a fireplug, or fire hydrant.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
Foy
.........I'm saying the group is preparing to enter one of the special permit access portals to Mammoth Cave, KY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Foy
Ah... never heard the expression fireplug! We just refer to them as fire hydrants - you learn something every day ;) Yes, was in the neighbourhood, so went to see the giant plug!
Good guess, but this spot is not in Kentucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foy
This beast was photographed in the same park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foy
The first pic just "had the look" of the more lush, verdant Midwest of Eastern US, and the sinkhole topography was evident.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
But, sinkholes occur lots of places, and given that our friend the bison is present, seeing the coniferous trees and duff, and given it's a "park", I move my guess to Carlsbad, NM.
Foy
I would move it farther north -- I am guessing Wind Cave in Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota.
Mark
Yes, it's an entrance to Wind Cave. The "Natural Entrance" tour enters the cave here and takes the elevators out. The revolving door was installed to limit the moisture escaping from the cave.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
The group in the photo was on a wild cave tour that normally takes the elevator into the cave before crawling off into the dark. But on this day, both elevators had stopped working. The cave had been evacuated and closed down except for this tour. We had the fourth longest cave in the world to ourselves.
How about this one, folks?
I-5 on the approach to Tacoma, Washington?
Right state, wrong city.
How about this?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/...603700.jpg?v=0
(Mark is barred from answering as I am pretty sure he has been there more than once!!)
{Mark: It's possible I've been there a dozen times in the last two years....}
Well.... it's not Everett, Seattle... we need a hint!Quote:
Originally Posted by glc
Mark
Other side of the state!
I'm still stumped -- but how about Spokane?
Mark
Valley of Fire?Quote:
Originally Posted by UKCraig
Grrrr, you beat me to it, I would've known in an instant. I went through that park before heading to Torrington for the branding.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
I went to that park in 2007, I thought I was the only one there...until I saw 3 guys running from one bush to the other, trying to hide from the border patrollers. Lovely park, but not as quiet as it seems at first.;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollin'
As a matter of fact, "tetons" is still used in French slang today but it sounds more like "totons".Quote:
Originally Posted by Kestrel
Spokane is correct, but that's heading east on I-90.
Well, that was dumb... I thought I was looking at the Cascades!
Thanks for the hints!
Mark