"Where in North America?" --- Section III
This is the Third section of a popular mind puzzle first brought to the membership by member Quebec Gen.
General Rules of the "Where in North America is this?" Game
1) Anyone can play -- just follow along and test your mettle about places found in North America.
2) You'll need to be a registered member of this Forum if you want to contribute your own photographs and/or participate in the discussion for each place.
3) You will need to have the ownership or usage rights to any photo that you post on this forum, as per the terms & conditions of Federal copyright law. If you post a photo that you do not own the rights to, Forum Management reserves the right to remove it. As a matter of practical use, we would expect that you would be posting only those photos that you or a close family member have taken.
4) Every photo of a mystery place needs to be unique in some way -- And there should be "visual clues" in the photo to enable us to solve where the mystery location is...
(Inactive -- you can look, but not enter new posts!)
Section I = 33 pages of places you might know
Section II = 28 more pages of places and some REALLY gorgeous photographs!
Section III = 28 more pages of places that might really stump you!
Section IV -- 15 more pages, with some very tricky clues
Section V -- 15 more pages of some very pretty and engaging places....
Section VI -- 15 more pages with more of those "very creative" clues that are nearly as vexing as the images....
Section VII -- Marked by some very clever clues and some VERY challenging puzzles spread over another 15 pages of places you might have seen in your travels in North America.
Section VIII, started on September 22nd with mystery puzzles from a dozen or more states and some new players have joined the merry band of geo-wizards...working on another fifteen pages of puzzles.
Section IX-- Some really beautiful and challenging puzzle mystery locations from all over North America found on another 15 pages.
Section X -- Spanning nearly four months of puzzles of North American locations on 16 more pages.
Section XI -- Started on March 14, 2010.
Section XII-- Started June 11, 2010 with 20 pages of new geo-puzzles from around North America
Section XIII-- Started July 29, 2014 is currently the Active Part of this Game/Contest
Enjoy! Courtesy of the RoadTrip Enthusiasts Group!
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-071.jpg
(Another photo by Dan Sedenquist)
Hint: A very important place... What is this building and where is it?
Mark
Not the Gracie Mansion....
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Originally Posted by
CalOldBlue
This lighthouse is maybe 5 miles south of Pescadero, if that... had we come up from Santa Cruz chances are I would have recognized this.
Yep, you most certainly would have spotted it -- I half expected you to be the first to "ring the bell" on this one!
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Gracie Mansion (residence of NYC Mayor).
Now, that's funny!
But.... no.
mark
State & Specific Location?
From one of the tallest to the one of the shortest...
Another lighthouse.... One of the tallest in America was this one at Point Pigeon, in California. This one is a little smaller in scale.... What is it's name and location?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-073.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)
Shall now exit stage left for today
Derby Wharf Lighthouse, Salem, Massachusetts.
Went to Salem because of the witch trial history. Nearby is Gloucester “Prefect Storm” film location if I remember correctly.
{Eris How in the blazes did you get this one that fast? A perfect 3 for 3 in less than an hour -- I bow to your knowledge...} --- Mark
Perfect Storm understated things, if anything
I used to work for a container line (APL), who acted as advisor for the shot of the container ship in the film (maybe a 30 second scene).
In 1998, the APL China ran into a typhoon between Taiwan and Seattle. This ship is 900' feet long, and too wide to fit through the Panama Canal.
The Longshoremen took shots of the end result after it limped into port:
here's the tail end of the ship, those boxes pushed over are about 9'X9'X40' and full of expensive imports from Asia:
http://www.ilwu19.com/history/china/ch23.jpg
Photo: ILWU 19
Some went overboard, a number still onboard were left hanging over the side, ripped open.
Thankfully no lives were lost.
Here's the full ILWU site on the incident: ILWU account of unloading the APL China
That was really interesting!
I spent about 30 minutes looking at the photos and the accounts of the work by the longshoreman tasked with unloading the containers from the China. That was really amazing -- pretty amazing that the ship made it to Seattle at all.
This seems like a good place to drop this photo in:
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/.../weather-3.jpg
These are all what we call Supply Vessels. They call at the platform roughly once a week to bring everything we need to continue operating - from crankshafts for 4000 hp diesel engines to toilet rolls. Needless to say that in conditions like these they just have to steam up and down waiting for the sea to subside before we can call them in to work them.
UKTrevor (Trevor Longden) Trevor works on an oil rig in the north sea. (I actually get a little queasy looking at this one -- serious sea-sickness potential out there)
I can't remember the size of these supply vessels -- but they must be at least 300 feet long -- look the wave height on this one -- this wasn't apparently even what they consider a stormy day!
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...06/weather.jpg
(Photo by Trevor Longden)
Maybe Eris can go 4 for 4? Or Maybe Someone Else?
Here's another reasonably important building -- there's a visual hint in the photo... (albeit a subtle one).
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-074.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)
Or a departmental flag perhaps....
Shipping can be hazardous to your health. In WWII, the "service" with the highest casualty rate was the Merchant Marine. Obviously for reasons other than weather, but....
For another amazing disaster at sea, do a google image search on "Hanjin Pennsylvania". Spectacular explosion/fire in the Indian ocean... burned practically to the waterline but somehow kept afloat and was towed back to Singapore. There WERE some deaths associated with this one.
I don't think they ever identified what went off; chemicals or undeclared fireworks. Per regulations, fireworks and other explosive items must be loaded above deck, so if the worst happens, the ship's structural integrity can survive. This was something that ignited in a hold just ahead of the superstructure.
The Hanjin Pennsylvania and the APL China are both post-Panamaxes, about 900 feet long or so. They are rated by the number of 20' long containers they can carry, in this case about 5,000 (although most containers are 40', so in reality about 2,500 40' containers). There are vessels today that can carry almost 3 times this number; but the ports they can call are somewhat constrained due to the need for special cranes, docks, etc.
Looks like somebody either fibbed (to get a cheaper rate) or somebody mis-stowed a container.
There are some spectacular photos of the exposion and aftermath out there on the web.
Back to the topic at hand; I'm either going to need a clue or I'm going to start surfing (later today).
...and now for something completely different
From 1970 as well. Hauled out my scanner and hooked it up; be afraid, be very afraid.
This slide has suffered some mold damage (the flecks), sorry for the quality.
Where is this, what is that guy wearing, and what is that stuff?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/UnknownSubstance.jpg
Photo: Don Casey
The Whole World Is Watching............
I'm saying Berkeley, CA; gas mask; and tear gas.
Foy
Architecture and.... nature #2
I was going to go with another building, but I thought it might be time for something that looked slightly more natural....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-Mark-075.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)
Where is this? What is it? And why is it historically significant?
@Don -- yeah, scanners are scary....
Looks like the Knight's Ferry Bridge? Significance is length?
Yep, the entrance to Sproul Plaza at Bancroft. They guy is on the student union steps.
This set of riots was sort of generic; anti-war, pro-Huey, anti-something else. Happened in April. Messed things up so much the University cancelled the graduation ceremony, so the class of 1970 had departmental graduations; in my case the 6-8 of us in L&S CS stood under the Campanile and listened to the department head congratulate us. wow.
Anyway, this shot is taken in the same area, but looking back at the steps where the guy in the gas mask was in the prior shot. These National Guard folk were just lined up with bayonets drawn. Weren't doing anything, people were passing through and (obviously) I was allowed to take a shot down their line. Weird times.
Still brings a tear to my eye to this day.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/B...e1970Riots.jpg
Photo: Don Casey
Point of Order, Point of Order....
Quote:
Originally Posted by
CalOldBlue
Yep, the entrance to Sproul Plaza at Bancroft. They guy is on the student union steps.
EDIT: Oops, I just re-read your comment and looked again at the photo.... My bad... You are correct! The guy is running south towards the Mather Gate and so, in fact, that is the student union building... I can see the Administration building in the background.....
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Still brings a tear to my eye to this day.
Heh, Heh. My gassing was when an errant tear gas container bounced of the car I standing next to near the old People's Park -- I was taking photos of the craziness -- actually until the cannister went awry -- everyone was mostly standing around and laughing. It's very hard to keep laughing when you can't breathe however.....
Back to the puzzle....
The bridge is famous (in part) for it's length -- but it's not the Knight's Ferry Bridge in California -- look at the trees -- those are not found in California! And also, have you ever seen that much water under the Knight's Ferry bridge?
Mark
