jbottero: Comments

Sure... That's what they SAY...

Nice series.

Outstanding series, Xaba.

The hanger is around 100 feet across. The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper's wings are around 65 feet tip to tip.

I'd like to see this "stealth blimp". Covered with a skin of tin-foil?

Also, looking at the Google map above, enable Photos, and you will see that in those two green squares of lawn out front are the "Black Dolphin" statues... Made by the prisoners themselves I hear.

Nope, not a duplicate. Completely different locations. The one you linked to is the wrong location. It might be a prison, but it's not Black Dolphin. Also note the comments on the map you've linked to.

Right nest to a golf course! Wonder if they get to play... Probably not.

Gymnast? Looks like something else.

Those types of hangers are pretty common for UAVs. I don't think it's big enough for a blimp.

I grew up in Portland in the 70's, most parts of the city (except NE, where MLK Blvd is) were safe at any hour, with a very healthy community. Baaaah, now I sound like an old man... GET OFF MY LAWN.

Now nothing more than a tourist trap. With the exception of an over-priced butcher shop, there is nothing of interest here for people that actually LIVE in Seattle. Overpriced but un-notable restaurants and coffee bars, a "farmers" market where most of the produce is about as close (or far) from the actual farmer as at Safeway... And public bathrooms filled with junkies. Tourists and aggressive bums is what Pike Place is known for these days - Pike and Pine around 2nd. Ave is possibly...

Funny! Sort of an "Easter egg".

Here's the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association web site...

http://www.horseshoepitching.com/

I've got to have one of their T-shirts to prove my Sports bona fides at work!

Who would have thought!

Does ESPN cover this sport?

But seriously, nice - and funny - find...

Horseshoes...

And who's buried NEXT to Oswald? Why, Nick Beef, of course.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/us/mystery-from-the-grave-beside-oswalds-solved.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

No kidding! I passed up this earlier while looking for stuff outside, didn't think to check for an Inside View.

Nice!

Grass / wild-fire truck.

A pumper and a ladder truck.

Yup, that's what made me look for the towers.

Not too bad...

Barney's been taking too many steroids...

Nice map.

Nice.

Note: NO HANDS!

I only eat at cafes where the waitstaff wears a French maid's apron and nothing else.

Not anymore...

There is now a large containment structure over this site.

Also, the UP takes this train on the road with UP executives and a "private" train. Iv'e seen it in Portland, and asked the porter what it was, he said UP execs sometime travel on it.

The front "looks" like a house, but it's really just a big giant box with no yard... Wow.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/06/hells-angels-may-get-seized-east-end-clubhouse-back/

Indeed, this Street View dated 2012 shows the restored station:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=United+States&hl=en&ll=45.366188,-122.596752&spn=0.002156,0.002411&t=k&hnear=United+States&z=19&layer=c&cbll=45.366188,-122.596752&panoid=vgScoVAiHOK4vVvV8webTg&cbp=12,115.91,,0,-6.21

According to Wikipedia, "...the city's historic Southern Pacific depot that was restored and returned to the site."

Yup, saw that video while searching for "more info". Not much else out there for this track...

Being an "old guy", I love pinball machines. In college, arcades were still popular since home games had not yet become sophisticated.

I think the word "art" should be in quotes...

Not really unusual for the Keys... Many things are built above sea level. You have to understand that most Keys are only a *few feet* above sea level, and so any storm that rolls in can flood you if you are at ground level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pininfarina

Pininfarina S.p.A. (short for Carozzeria Pininfarina) is an independent Italian car design firm and coachbuilder in Cambiano, Italy. It was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930.

Pininfarina is employed by a wide variety of automobile manufactures to design vehicles. These firms have included long established customers such as Ferrari, Alfa Romeo...

In Bing, when you turn off "Show Labels", you get a different sat image.

Also from the sat images, it seems that the Saudi officers have a passion for tennis.

They probably bought it from the bone yard, engines are probably way old, its last landing was probably its last!

In this test, the test pilot is in an ejection seat suspended by two bungee cords between two towers when the seat rickets go off...

Makes you wonder where they landed it or towed it from...

People talk about Area 51 like the Holy Grail. But China Lake is where the real stuff goes on.

New linky: http://www.trona-ca.com/trona-airport/

Now that's a car! Of course the apex of American auto design was the K-Car series.

I think it's something else. Strip is WAY too short even for UAVs.

Actually, Bing images suggest it isn't an actual jet at all.

Is it an F16? Current images suggest two tail fins.

I love looking around Flint and Detroit. East St. Louis is another good spot but they have very little Street View.

The guy on the left looks like the late John Candy. Adjust the view to see a profile, it's quite uncanny!

There is Street View inside the castle grounds as well...

Probably arriving for AMC Rodeo 2011.

This maze seems to be in the middle of a big lake now.

Look west, along the main road: A smaller compound with red-roofed buildings and a parameter fence. Perhaps another military facility?

The anomaly seems to be gone now...

127 deg F in Furnace Creek today (30 June 2013) ...

Great "More Info" web site, wish it had coordinates...

There looks to be a number of vehicles next to a building with a good roof and a large antenna. As well, one wonders how the several fixed-wing aircraft got there since there is no runway.

Perhaps it's a training station of some type?

The former La Bonita Theater has been close to closing many times since its birth in 1912. Although any of its architectural character was long clapboarded over, the theater has retained a simple Moderne marquee and vertical sign. Chinese characters have also been painted on the facade.

The theater was the site of an eleven month run of “La Cage aux Folles” in 1979. Now twinned and showing mostly arthouse and foreign films, the 4-Star Theater continues to struggle, but it is...

The second linky in the first paragraph is 404 Not Found.

The Fallen Diva of Animal Fat and Sugar has several restaurants in Savanna, this being the "flagship".

The Bing map is significantly different, and I'm wondering which is a newer image?

It's been blurred out!

It's an Army *Reserve* station. The radar dome probably has little to do with the military, it's most likly a weather radar.

Lost the lease in 1998, it's now a chain Italian joint.

Gone.

Completely gone now...

He's not there anymore.

"The interior courtyard is a haven of tranquility in traditional Arab style..." in a country where most of the population are serfs.

Perhaps the map is pointing to the wrong place. Or gone.

Not anymore. Gone.

It seems very unlikely that we would straf a mosque - regardless of what you think about the Iraq War.

Now pixelated. Not surprised. Microsoft in known to be in the NSA's pocket...

All that's left now is the reactor core building.

As an advocate for hideously morbidly obese people, I am deeply saddened - nay - offended by this "sport".

Well, at least the are not out beating someone up...

http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/seattlepd.php

Steer head was removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cape_Island_(T-AKR-10)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cape_Intrepid_(T-AKR-11)

Considering that both ends of the track are dead-ends, I don't think this train is in operation anymore...

Air Mobility Command HQ and USTRANSCOM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Air_Force_Base

An old cellar.

I'm sorry, but I'm more interested to the Pound Cake next to the rice cakes... I assume there is coffee involved?

Former. It was confiscated and is now for sale.

Demolished houses in Flint will be a gold mine! Detroit would be good as well.

The north segment, both lanes, collapsed.

It's a smaller building to the side of the large temple / church.

Seems to be fairly well dressed for a bum. Maybe it's some old guy who fell down?

According to news reports, this house compound burned to the ground yesterday...

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/18/bungle-in-jungle-john-mcafee-belize-home-burns-to-ground/

Looks like where the services are held by the mechanical aliens who have invaded Earth...

Really unnecessary.

Sounds like an advertisement.

Outstanding.

...Or falling-down drunk.

Thanks, Hhgygy ...

Sure, anon...

I highly recommend getting a massage while stoned. It's legal in Washington and Colorado now!

I continue to be amazed at the subject and substance of modern art. This piece will probably end up in some swanky NYC gallery with a 5-figure price tag...

My 1000th map! WOO HOO!

It's blurred out now. What did it say?