"Where in North America?" --- Section IV

This is the Fourth 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! 

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Originally Posted by UKCraig

How about this one?
UK Craig removed another one.... (sigh)

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Let's see... We got steep mountains, that look like the Canadian Rockies, buses, skiers, a ski lodge..... Hmmmm Maybe Whistler or Banff?

The shot appears to be taken from an elevated position.

Perhaps from a gondola?

I missed that piece of the puzzle both places have gondolas....

Mark

Not Whistler or Banff but you're close. Not from a Gondola although there is one there.

OK, we need another bone or twoeth....

Mark

The photo wasn't taken a heLL of a long way from a Chateau

Lake Louise?

Looks like the building on the extreme left of this shot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylewlane/383168769/

Evidently most folk shoot the buildings to the right (as viewed) of this one (whatever it is).

Looks like the shot was taken from the ski lift in front of the building?

Assuming this is it; how about another interior?

Where/what is this?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryInterior2.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

A similar photo found about 2/3rds of the way down this page.... Megan Edwards gets the credit for identifying this one....

What is that? Where is it?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-Mark-091.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)

Quick work!

My original thought was the Old Faithful geyser, not THAT one, but the one near Calistoga. The surroundings aren't right though.

Is this thing a geyser?

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Is this thing a geyser?

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Yep, it's most certainly a geyser and not a pump-operated water feature.... It's not located in either Wyoming or California....

Mark

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/hot.htm

Yeah, you're getting wise to the notion that I might be using images from places profiled on RTA.... This is known as "Old Perpetual Geyser" in Lakeview, Oregon and it shoots a plume of hot water into the air about every 90 seconds or so. In the wintertime it's pretty darn neat -- goes about 60 feet in the air and the hot water crystalizes as it falls back to earth if it's cold enough!

Mark

I figured if it isn't CA or WY, then the most likely place for a geyser in NAM is someone along the "ring of fire"; started in Oregon first... and there you were!

Try this one. These lovely gardens are part of a triple-threat attraction.

What is it, where, and what are the other two things this place is known for (aside from the gardens)?

http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryGarden.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

Unless someone surprises me, you WILL need clues!

This one looks easy to me....the Japanese garden at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. And if so, the

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"other two things this place is known for..."

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would be these two paintings?

Thomas Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy" (1770) and Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie"

There's a lot more to discover at the Huntington Library -- their gift shop is worth a visit all by itself.

Mark

Yes. The two things I was thinking of were the artwork/galleries and the library.

Visited on a trip down to Pasadena to visit daughter (nursing grad student at CSLA) and son-in-law (genetics grad student at USC; a tough tough thing for an Old Blue to have to deal with).

I'd been here previously in the 70s; gardens are amazing, esp. the desert garden.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/H...raryCactus.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

The artwork, as you note, is also notable. Aside the pieces you cite, there is at least one John Singer Sargent (Linda's favorite artist):
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/H...LibraryJSS.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

And lastly, the library section (what this is named for) has various and sundry Gutenbergs, Shakespeares, etc.

Here's a first folio Shakespeare open to Hamlet:
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/H...raryShakes.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

The Huntington was founded by Henry E. Huntington, nephew of Colis P. Huntington, one of the Big Four who established the Central Pacific, the corporation that drove the Pacific side of the Transcontinental Railway (and eventually morphed into the Southern Pacific). The other three, for the record:

Leland Stanford: the political force of the group; became Governor of California (and also founded a junior University in Palo Alto among other things)

Mark Hopkins: the money man of the team; was a merchant in Sacto (with Huntington)... (there's a hotel named for him in SF)

Charles Crocker: the engineer/driver of the group (also founded Crocker Bank with became Crocker-Anglo Bank which was merged with Wells Fargo). The old Crocker Bank on Montgomery near Market in SF is still a working branch of Wells, and a marvelous piece of architecture: worth a peek inside. Check out the ceiling; THIS is what banks SHOULD look like. Trivia: Deming NM is named for his wife.

The railroads made these guys insanely rich, and part of that money helped nephew Henry (although he shone in his own light; ran Newport News Shipbuilding in VA at one point). Huntington Park in Newport News is named for him, as is Huntington Beach in CA.

Identify this computer room (part of a tourist attraction):

http://donandlindacasey.com/images/M...mputerRoom.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

That desert garden has long been a special place for us. Megan knows it more intimately than I do, but this was a really nice walk down memory lane for me...

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And lastly, the library section (what this is named for) has various and sundry Gutenbergs, Shakespeares, etc.

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I thought you might have been referring to the Gutenberg...

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Visited on a trip down to Pasadena to visit daughter (nursing grad student at CSLA) and son-in-law (genetics grad student at USC; a tough tough thing for an Old Blue to have to deal with).

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It's good for you -- keeps you able to eat humble pie....

Mark

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Identify this computer room (part of a tourist attraction):http://donandlindacasey.com/images/M...mputerRoom.jpg
Photo: Don Casey

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Oh, now we're in trouble -- I've been to installations that looked like that... but it could be in one of several places -- No hints???

Arrrrrrrrgh. The presence of a window is surprising and takes out my first guess of a certain location in the Nevada desert....

Mark

That's not a window (it's a door I believe), and 'desert' is about the last thing that would come to mind when considering this location.

That said, 'computer room' is pretty far down the list too.

There are other places like this in the immediate vicinity, this is the only one open to the public. It gets several hundred thousand visitors annually.

I'll let y'all twirl for an hour or two before the next clue arrives.

Your clues are mighty vexing -- I really have to go back to work.... but perhaps at the Air and Space Museum? Perhaps even a mock-up of a fire control room on a destroyer?

I am going to take a wild a** guess and say that it's the USS Midway museum in San Diego.

Not on the east coast.

Not a mock up.

As for "Air and Space"... Of the four realms (earth, sea, air, space) it has associations (one rather more tenuous than others) with three.

CORRECTION:

Posted above too late; YES!

USS Midway Museum in San Diego. Home of the pacific fleet, lots of other carriers (usually) visible from the deck of the Midway. Was commissioned at the very end of WWII; used to recover astronauts from time to time (hence the association with "space").

Photo taken when we went down to see Cal in a Holiday Bowl appearance in 2006 against Texas A&M. Magic moment of that game was when the graduating second-string senior quarterback disobeyed Tedford's order to take a knee, and handed the ball off to a freshman running back who hadn't touched the ball all year... he scored. Final: 45-10. Close game until the second half; halftime score 14-10.

I got the references -- and figured it had to do something with a naval vessel -- good one again!

Mark

There are some visual clues here... but I bet this one will be a toughie....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-Mark-092.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)

Where is this? Why would we care?

Olive tree, maybe some citrus, mission architecture but somehow too neat; looks like more modern construction than original.

Definitely California (I think; looks like the bottom flag on the pole might have a red stripe on the bottom, a white field, and maybe a brown bear on it).

That courtyard is unique.

Hmmmm. Based on where the flagpole is, and the small door, plus the odd "courtyard", I wonder if this is the rear of the building, not the front.

It is California, and that is the front entrance... but just about everyone enters the property these days from the rear... If this were an auditory image, you would hear sea gulls and the crashing of surf....And did I mention that this one is a toughie....? The house was built in 1929...

Mark

Adamson House, Malibu point?

Or have you been there?

Yes, the Adamson house is located on the grounds of the Malibu Lagoon State Park. More information about the house and the history can be found here.

Good work!

Mark

Once you opened that up then a simple cruise over likely spots (La Jolla, OC Coast, Catalina Island, etc) w/ Google Earth turned it up.

Had earlier "found" it searching "Spanish Colonial" architecture, but the pictures were all of the other side of the building (and the date given was 1930), so missed it initially.

I am getting poised to be really annoying; in cleaning up my "man cave" (the spare bedroom Linda allows me to trash with my stuff) I'm getting phase I and II of my photo habit under control:

Phase Ia - film (primarily slide: 10-15 years)
Phase Ib - film (primaily negative/print: 15-20 years)
Phase II - film but with digital CDs (5 years approx)
Phase III - digital (last 5 years)

I think I've only used one Phase I (tear gas in Berkeley) and a small number of Phase II shots (St. Paul Island) up to now, in a few days the universe of possibilities will expand as I get the Phase II CDs migrated to my hard drive and start scanning in more of the older stuff (as time/inclination permits)

Don,

Looking forward to see what gems are lurking in your photo collections!

Mark

In the meantime, here is a little distraction -- I haven't made it out there yet to capture my own update in photos -- but you gotta look at this web cam... From this perspective it looks like the arch is already connected -- it's not, but getting closer every day!

The Cam updates every couple of minutes and so you can see workers moving around!

Since we've enjoyed so many of Gerald "Mr RoadTrip Thurman's photos, I thought we ought to feature one of his "self portraits' again...
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-Mark-093.jpg

Where could Gerald be sitting to get this photo? (Look at the water color...)

mark

Near Antelope Island Marina, Great Salt Lake.

Wrong state, but there is a similar element to the water quality therein.

mark

That is the Salton Sea.

Okay, what and where is this?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...-mystery-1.jpg
Note - I had to wipe out the name on the front and side of the building.

... somewhere on the eastern shore of Salton Sea, in the Desert Beach area.