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Impressive.

"Art". With quotes.

Specifically crème caramel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A8me_caramel

Now this is outstanding!

Come on now, 100,000's of frat boys have been there...

Good grief, it's the glare off the flashing of the roof line. How exciting.

What is this shit, Nico? Aircraft at VG? Slacker, you should be looking for FOOD like me...

Good map.

With - undoubtedly - 60's and 70's technology on board.

Great map, I'm surprised it wasn't already here, Bander Abbas is pretty notable...

The thumbnail does not seem to link to the area of the thumb image. It's off a little.

Pesky cactus, crowding out the mail box next to it - CUT IT DOWN.

Nico, you should look at my Hanford maps...

With the crazy North Koreans, it could very well be a Zeppelin.

Almost certainly. Nothing else there, not even a road down. Submarines? The Russians had lots of these.

I wonder when the last time any of those jets flew, and if any could get off the ground? I imagine that they are basically "suicide machines" a la Japanese Zeros...

What is an HAS, please.

Note the aircraft parked outside nearby...

This is not so much a "Street View Error" as much as a show of what can happen when you're in the Spanish "back country" and stop at all the vineyards for a sample...

Check this out for more about these small nuke power plants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program

No longer there.

I see that they are blocks by the road, but how are they used and road block?

Century 21 Raceway opened in 1971, and closed after a short-lived heyday in 1974. There was a quarter mile dragstrip and a 3/8 mile paved oval/figure 8. A larger oval had been bulldozed, but never completed. There were also plans for a road course, but it was never started. Each spectator had their own individual swiveling bucket seat to watch all the action from, of which still remain but shot to smithereens. After the track closed, the cops used to 'allow' the kids to street race there, until...

Not two, Spider, same one in different parts / frames of the sat image...

Very nice. If you zoom in, you can see the pod on the belly of the aircraft.

I've walked by this, and all I can say is "EEEWWWWWW".

Another habeas-corpus-free prison operated but the jack-boots at Homeland Security.

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

If you look at Street View, those things that look like some type of building from Sat view, are huge concrete blocks.

No longer open. The casino moved.

Closed in 2010, vacant as of 2013.

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_4a3beeb3-344a-5196-b028-a7e00deee27b.html

http://www.cca.com/facility/huerfano-county-correctional-center/

Reference? How do we know this is Adele's place?

In answer to my last question, Cliff May is the "father" of the "ranch style" house.

Concerning my previous post, yes of course I understand the architect is well know and all, but Frank Gehry this is not. It's a house... Good map though.

And speaking of architects, I wonder who the "father" of the split level ranch style house is... Now there's a guy!

I'm sorry, is this supposed to be "high" architecture? It looks like an average house to me...

Well, the dry-dock in the Bird's Eye View was missed in the Dry-Dock Safari, I think....

Fully restored, now a Double-Tree...

Gone.

Shamefully, while the theater is still there, the wonderful neon facade is gone.

Go to Google Maps and enable Photos... It seems to be some type of Ilyushin...

Interestingly, in the Bing Map view, there is a cruise ship heading straight for the rock...

Outstanding.

Very nice.

In the Bing View, these are still under construction, and you can see all the parts laid out around the construction site - really quite interesting.

There is a recovery ship upper left.

This plane is lined up for runway 26, but take a look, there's a jet just taking pulling on the runway for take-off... Cuttin' it close!

For those who grew up in Portland, this bridge is known as "Suicide Bridge" for being a top choice of people seeking to end their lives.

Sure. Didn't see the option.

The waterway stretches for 135 miles and has 160 locks stretching between the two largest cities in England; London and Birmingham. The present Grand Union Canal only came into being in 1929 after a series of separate canals were amalgamated. This was in response to competition from improvements in vehicle technology and the development of new roads which were seen as a threat to the canals.

Forgot the linkies:

http://www.sculpture.org/documents/parksdir/p&g/monarch/monarch.shtml

http://www.monarchartcenter.org/

It's not a farm. It's an "estate". There is no farming going on.

It took a bit of searching, but the key was the homeowner's name. An Intertube search turned up an address.

A stretch, but maybe so...

This is really AWESOME. Sometimes the most interesting maps get lost in the shear number that get submitted every week / month / year.

According to November 21, 1970, a dynamite fueled bomb exploded underneath the portico, doing $170,000 in damage. I was 7 and living in one of the more Bohemian neighborhoods with my hippie parents... The bomb actually exploded under the bell.

Does this mean something, or is it because it's unblurred?

What is the nature of that giant circular swamp that looks like the moon?

See also: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/portland-oregon-city-hall/

The building in the thumb is no longer there...

Gone now.

Interestingly, the Yahoo image looks more like a Bing Bird's Eye. But it isn't...

Runways are not in use anymore.

www.eroticheritagemuseumlasvegas.com

I've been going for things like random antennae, but I've missed the boat.

Yes... Bread products... An all new direction for VG.

Outstanding.

You can actually "drive" around this tower in Street View - there's NO GRAFFITI! Finland must have a different attitude about such things than Italy, where every square inch of Rome is covered in spray paint.

Excellent...

Just to the south is Indian Island where the Navy has a large weapons depot. Note the large dock. The Navy denies that they keep nukes there, on the other hand, note the trajectory of that sub...

I've driven by this place many times, it says "don't even think about even touching the fence" all over it...

Well, well, well! Props to the Waco Kidd... I hear the VG will be flying you to the South of France for an all-expenses paid extravaganza... Oh... Wait, I was watching Wheel of Fortune.

None the less, an outstanding achievement for VG and Mr. W.K.

The Yahoo Map view sort of looks like two towers, however there is actually only one.

Check out the Bird's Eye View to see a tower like you have probably never seen before.

I think actually it's his driveway, not his house...

No real "back yards" at these houses, just enough space in the back to keep your rottweilers.

Racist garbage. Nice.

US Coast Guard

Seems more like they are looking at the big truck infront of them getting ready to dump some asphalt...

Also, the calendar in the music room indicates these images where taken in Nov - Dec of 2010.

A *very* spacious apartment by Tokyo standards.

Of course Mubarak is gone, it now belongs to another Pharaoh.

Ahhhh. I normally only associate hangers with aircraft.

Actually in Google and Yahoo as well. Wonder what's going on there? Drones maybe? It's a fairly small air strip...

In Bing, all views are now "censored".

Hangers for what? I don't see a runway or helo pads.

The building and drive do not look to be of 1960's vintage...

Cheesy indeed! More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit

Nice find.

I wonder what is to the SE? The whole industrial area is filled with large cooling units and tanks. Part of the power station infrastructure?

If you switch to "Map View", the graphic image is of a small spit of land...

Nice. My mom used to own one of those.

No, it doesn't actually exist. Read the link, it's an anomaly that has made it onto a number of maps. People have gone out and varified that there is no island there.

Apparently it's being used for something commercial these days - see Google and Bing...

Where is this image from? I don't see it in Google Maps...

Where is this image from? It's not what I see in Google Maps when I click on the thumb. Is it from Google Earth?

"Kingscote Airport"

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

Where did you get that image? It's not what comes up in Google Maps sat view...

I loaded an updated image today - funny how the nose of that 747 is poking at the thing...

The Honda track is further north, but close by...

"WHOOOOOOOSH"

Nope, HHgygy, sorry, missed that!

It's not a real cat, looking at it from several angles reveals it does not move and is probably flat.

Yes, but how can you tell there are mortars?

Soon to close:

http://seattletimes.com/html/picturethis/2019525671_thefunhousemusicvenuecloses.html

It's interesting how you can see different versions of the exact same view in Street View, depending on how you get there.

For example, follow the Thumbnail above, and you see what is posted.

But, if you navigate there from...

School house, perhaps?