| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-18 22:33:47 | Steve Kinser Racing | I'm guessing early spring 2007. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-16 18:59:41 | Pulled over by 3 squad cars | This was part of the original high resolution street view coverage that was replaced with crummy low resolution scenes in June. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-16 06:57:02 | 'Disney Ice' by Frank Gehry | Featuring two ice rinks, it was renamed "Anaheim Ice" after Disney sold it along with their NHL team to new owners in 2005. This is the training facility for the Anaheim Ducks. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-15 13:07:23 | Driving Boat, er, or is that a Bus? | It's an amphibious Duck - a former military vehicle converted into a tourist ride. The Ducks at the Wisconsin Dells do some fun off-roading when not on the water. ... |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-12 12:53:44 | Monster MEGA Mansion | Covecrest, not Covercrest. Google Covecrest Newport Beach (no quotes). Two of the results are titled "MBA Student Leadership..." - one a pdf file and one a doc file - each make mention to the... |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-11 17:26:24 | Monster MEGA Mansion | If you googled the street name "Covecrest" you would come across the name Paul and Lilly Merage, who own a home at 1 Covecrest. It appears that the mansion is the only home on Covecrest. He is the... |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-11 08:06:39 | East Bay Raceway Park | New birds eye view scenery shows the pits full of sprint car teams. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-09 19:25:36 | The First Amendment | Some people can be seen riding Segways on the sidewalk below the sign. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-09 10:41:02 | Smart Tower | Some Harley Davidson dealerships have towers like this showing off their motorcycles. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-09 09:50:16 | KC-135 about to land | http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Air/Boeing-KC-135R-Stratotanker/0783391/M/ |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-08 18:47:22 | Rocky Mountain Raceways | Some pretty cool scenes of stock cars, Legends, modifieds, and trucks can be seen at the oval track in Live Maps' birds eye views. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-06 19:18:36 | Anaheim Hills Landslide | Looks like I posted this just in time. Today's new release of birds eye view scenery covers this area, and it shows the hillside after the landslide has been cleaned up. |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-06 11:46:33 | America's tallest flagpole | In the various birds eye view scenes released today, the pole can be seen in various stages of assembly (or disassembly). |
| milwhcky | 2008-11-02 20:18:27 | Painted race car | http://www.qualitymotorsports.com/ |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-27 19:29:29 | Vintage car | I agree, it's an Excalibur. I knew a guy who assembled them back in the 80's. I remember him saying many of their cars sold to guys from the Chicago area, where this one is driving. |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-12 16:15:24 | Virginia Motorsports Park | I realized this one's visible in the south BEV.
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| milwhcky | 2008-10-09 23:43:03 | Terre Haute race track | Several photos:
http://www.stevehardin.com/terrehaute.htm |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-09 23:40:31 | Eldora Speedway | Several photos:
http://www.stevehardin.com/htm/eldora.htm |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-09 23:37:49 | Knoxville Raceway | Several photos:
http://www.stevehardin.com/htm/knoxville.htm |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-09 23:34:55 | Hales Corners Speedway (no longer there) | Several photos:
http://www.stevehardin.com/htm/hales.htm |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-09 22:39:19 | Fremont Speedway | Dozens of photographs of the property:
http://www.stevehardin.com/fremont.htm |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-05 20:25:20 | Attica Raceway Park | The track's web site features several "birds-eye-view" type photos of the property. |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-03 13:22:37 | Jason Arnott's House | 'Fire damages Brentwood home of Predators' Arnott'
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| milwhcky | 2008-10-03 11:52:14 | Ford vs. Chevy truck maze | Yep, I posted that football maze last year:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/33679/
I put this truck maze up... |
| milwhcky | 2008-10-03 02:14:02 | Fantastic Fans maze | The more info link is no longer good. The farm stopped doing activities such as the maze after 2006. A better more info link (for now) is:
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| milwhcky | 2008-10-01 02:31:47 | Denver Botanic Gardens and Maze | Sorry nic, I should have explained it better in my first comment... I was referring to my typo (Botanical) in the description. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-30 23:55:36 | Beer Googles Bar | There are some possesive submissions that were accepted... Aussie's and Tiki's. I figured a plural would be ok. Delete the map if it's not ok for the hunt. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-29 19:32:52 | Denver Botanic Gardens and Maze | Should read 'Denver Botanic Gardens'. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-28 17:44:04 | America's tallest flagpole | Acuity appears to have scrapped the idea of having a tall flag pole.
It was taken down in October 2007 with a plan to erect a stronger pole. In April 2008, a new pole went up without... |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-25 12:35:47 | Scavenger Hunt | I believe someone else submitted this scene a few days ago. I'm guessing another mod declined it since it is not very legible. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-24 21:22:00 | Microsoft Way | I wonder how many crashes happen along that road. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-23 21:37:02 | Emissions reducing smokestack | The Google and Yahoo imagery has since been updated showing the completed project. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-22 06:03:11 | House destroyed by helicopter crash | http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=797341 |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-17 21:42:56 | USA International Speedway | The track held it's final race on August 2, 2008. An industrial park will be built on the land. |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-17 18:24:22 | Harry Caray Budweiser ad | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTr9E9CnDww |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-16 19:08:45 | Circuito Internacional de Monsanto | One of six YouTube videos of the 2008 event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-1p5lZrmg |
| milwhcky | 2008-09-14 07:14:55 | Holler House | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3h2HIBg448&feature=related
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| milwhcky | 2008-09-04 18:43:09 | Google Car on snowy road | It looks like the Street View car slid off the road. Looking behind the car, you can see the car's tracks in the middle of the road and an abrupt path to the shoulder. Go back a few scenes, and it... |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-29 07:19:52 | Mini Golf Course | I've played on this one during a family outing. A very simple flat course without many challenges. I've been kicked out of their go-kart track for aggressive driving.
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| milwhcky | 2008-08-27 00:08:49 | Olympic BMX training track | The Americans captured three of the six BMX medals in Beijing. Mike Day won the silver and Donny Robinson claimed the bronze in the men's race. Jill Kintner won the bronze in the women's race. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-26 13:52:11 | Arragon Mooar (under construction) | Taylor is the founder and former chairman of Strix - "the world's leading manufacturer of controls and cordless interfaces for kettles, jugs and a wide range of water boiling appliances." |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-26 13:35:05 | Arragon Mooar (under construction) | http://www.julianbicknell.co.uk/projects.php
(scroll down to "Arragon Mooar")
It's an eliptical plan... |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-25 23:16:54 | Fire gutted building | Also of note, the more recent LL aerial view shows the building as it's being repaired. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-25 15:16:24 | Lake Geneva Raceway (no longer there) | Two years after it closed, and nothing has been done with the land. The track's concession and scoring buildings are still standing, as are the farm buildings on the southern part of the property. ... |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-24 23:56:33 | Russell Military Museum | The birds eye view coverage of this area does *not* show the museum. If it did, I would have posted it in BEV. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-22 22:25:57 | 157 Riverside Avenue | It's one they still play in concert today. Kevin scatting with the guitar is pretty cool. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-21 17:31:55 | Derby Downs - soap box derby track | Very cool. The first soap box track on VGT, if I'm not mistaken. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-19 15:59:39 | Skull & Crossed Bones maze | Wrong state... made me think there was new BEV footage available! |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-17 15:15:40 | Hangar demolition? | The Gary Jet Center broke ground on a $4.1 million hangar in 2007. While under construction, it was damaged by a storm on August 23, 2007.
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| milwhcky | 2008-08-17 13:13:03 | Budapest Velodrome (?) | Yep, it's a velodrome. Millenáris Velodrome.
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| milwhcky | 2008-08-17 11:54:15 | Intentionally Altered | Clouds or cloud shadows in satellite photos can lead to irregular stitching patterns. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-17 11:21:26 | Helsinki Velodrome | An American football field is in the infield of the track. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-16 18:16:11 | Marching band | After submitting this map, I found three more BEV scenes with bands in this parade. Follow this road (Penn St.) east to 11th. Certain north and south views show bands on 11th. |
| milwhcky | 2008-08-03 15:31:52 | Remote Control Race Car Track | Yep, it's an RC track. It's used by the Remote World Model Car Club.
http://www.remoteworld.co.uk/index.htm
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| milwhcky | 2008-08-01 01:18:14 | Herbie the Love Bug | There are decal kits on the market to turn any Beetle into a 'Herbie'. Note - the one in the Streetview scene is missing the red and blue stripes on the roof and the rear. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-29 20:21:39 | Adria International Raceway | The track held it's first race in 2002. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-28 20:35:31 | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Harper family | Also visible in Google Streetview |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-28 00:01:26 | Stadium Under Construction | Still under construction in Google's Streetviews. The exterior walls and glass panels are almost completed. It is scheduled to open on August 30, 2008, three years after the project broke ground. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-27 19:20:19 | Oops... | Looks like the mistake was fixed. A scene featuring a large seashell shows up in birds eye view. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-27 11:43:13 | Cahokia Indian Mounds | This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/198 |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-23 17:34:32 | Iinatin Moottoriurheilukeskus | After further web searches, I've found this multi-track facility goes by the name Iinatin Moottoriurheilukeskus. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-21 20:21:07 | Giant Presidents' Heads | In the current google view, his 36' tall sculptures of the Beatles can be seen. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-19 23:01:25 | Housing development built on old race track | It might be the Cape May Courthouse Fairgrounds, where a 1/2 mile dirt track existed from at least 1922-40.
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| milwhcky | 2008-07-17 14:49:57 | Fireboat 'Victor L. Schlaeger' spraying water | Both the pro volleyball event on the beach and the Lollapalooza concert event at Grant Park were held on the weekend of August 3-5, 2007. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-17 14:46:55 | Fireboat 'Victor L. Schlaeger' spraying water | Columbus Drive, west of Grant Park, is part of the area used for Taste of Chicago (an annual 10 day event). Something is going on at Grant Park (including two concerts), but it does not extend onto... |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-16 22:17:52 | Chula Vista International Off Road Raceway | The new track is now visible in google maps - about 1 1/2 miles south of the old track next to the quarry. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-16 11:50:59 | Riverside Speedway | The owners closed this track after the 2006 season and opened a new track near Greenwood, SC, the following spring. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-13 10:28:19 | Bandimere Speedway | The current Google scene shows cars at the track.
In reaction to the death of driver Scott Kalitta in June 2008, the NHRA shortened the races from 1/4 mile to 1000 feet for the nitro... |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-12 18:32:50 | BAM Racing | The Obama sponsorship deal is not going to happen.
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| milwhcky | 2008-07-11 18:45:22 | Model race car track | I couldn't find a name for this track, other than it was located at Paine Field. It was built in the early 70's.
I wish my dad had put me in a quarter midget when I was a kid, but... |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-11 18:22:01 | Model race car track | It's a quarter midget race track previously used by the Washington Quarter Midget Association (www.wqma.com). They've since moved to a track in... |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-09 00:30:08 | Ottodrome Speedway | It was renamed Ottodrome International Speedway when it was purchased in 2002. It switched back to it's original name of Capital City Speedway in 2006. I've also seen reference to it being named... |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-07 14:01:07 | Trump World Tower | The Trump Tower and the Trump World Tower are two different buildings. The Trump Tower is also catalogued on this site. |
| milwhcky | 2008-07-06 13:15:55 | Spiral pond | This is Charles Jencks' land sculpture "Landform" at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
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| milwhcky | 2008-07-03 19:47:58 | Tennis/Karting | It's too small and the corners are too tight for karting. It could be a radio controlled car course. |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-30 18:23:42 | 2008-06-09 - Lake Delton empties | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0bVsSWXG-I |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-28 22:29:31 | Three Alpacas | http://lillyofthevalleyalpacas.com |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-25 13:17:49 | North County Fair | Not a fairgrounds. This is a shopping mall previously named "North County Fair". It is now known as "Westfield North County". |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-23 18:09:38 | Country Thunder USA concert | Judging by nearby areas in this google update, this would have been from 2007. It was held over five days that year - July 18-22. |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-23 17:18:36 | Cinderella 2005 maze | Google now shows a 2007 Spiderman design |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-23 16:28:29 | Town where 'Groundhog Day' was filmed | Available in Google StreetView for a good look at the town square used in the movie. |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-15 09:08:32 | Prototype cargo airship | A storm in June 2007 destroyed this hangar and severely damaged the airship.
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| milwhcky | 2008-06-13 15:25:23 | Atomic Motor Speedway | In the recently added google street view of this area, the track is still there, but the grandstands appear to have been torn down. |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-11 16:04:20 | Paris mural | This was in high detail with no blurred faces when I posted it last week... it appears that google is replacing the high definition scenes with crummy fuzzy ones. |
| milwhcky | 2008-06-08 14:11:20 | Shellhammer's Speedway | A few clips are available on YouTube... this track looks like a blast to race on!
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| milwhcky | 2008-06-04 19:07:13 | El Toro, the Brave Black Bull | A recent tip on roadsideamerica.com points out that the bull's genitals are painted like the American flag, which is visible in this StreetView scene. |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-28 22:30:40 | Lockheed F-104 on static display | The latitude and longitude numbers for this map are way off.
The link brings up the Burbank location, but the first set of coordinates in the URL point to the Toronto area, thus... |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-28 20:52:58 | Langley Speedway | Link with several pictures:
http://www.motorsportscentral.com/langley.asp |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-28 17:05:34 | Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena | The Chiefs won the 2008 Canadian Hockey League's Memorial Cup. Moments after receiving the Cup, the trophy breaks.
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| milwhcky | 2008-05-28 06:46:03 | Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery | Congrats on your 10,000th map! |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-26 22:34:27 | F101C Voodoo wreckage | Further discussion on the more info link has proven this is actually a Lockheed T2V-1 "Seastar" Navy training jet. |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-26 22:18:30 | Hands up! | I don't get it either. As far as Chicago communities go, this one (Chicago Lawn) is about average. U.S. Census data puts this neighborhood's median family income at $47,000, and the crime rate is... |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-24 14:36:37 | Onan Garage Man | He's no longer there. Taken down in 2006 or 07. |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-22 13:38:27 | Barack Obama's Garbage Can | The blue cart arrangement is fairly new. In the past, they put their recyclables in blue bags for curbside pickup. This has been on the Chicago news recently, so the streetview scenery may have... |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-20 11:59:04 | John Force Racing | This is located on 'Nitro Alley' - a new corporate park with dozens of major auto racing shops and vendors. I drove through here earlier this month. Several more buildings have gone up since the... |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-18 22:16:48 | Anderson Speedway | Anderson lost it's title as the "World's Fastest 1/4 Mile Oval" after USAC's visit to Slinger Speedway in Wisconsin on May 17, 2008. Jason Leffler's record of 11.406 seconds was beat by 29 drivers... |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-18 18:42:28 | Wood Brothers Racing and JTG Racing shop | I think I see what happened... my lat/long numbers were not copied right, but it still brings up the scene. My bad. |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-18 18:31:19 | Wood Brothers Racing and JTG Racing shop | Now this is weird...
I've already posted this, but it doesn't show up in the nearby maps...
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| milwhcky | 2008-05-05 21:08:56 | Prototype cargo airship | In the current LL aerial view, the airship can be seen next to it's tent. |
| milwhcky | 2008-05-05 21:07:36 | Prototype cargo airship | More links:
http://www.dynalifter.com/
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