jbottero: Comments

I have to say, turning a house like this into a "museum" in honor of the dead guy that once drank copious quantities of liquor there and eventually creamed himself against a nearby truck... It's an odd thing to do, most certainly driven by MONEY.

Sad. Just sad.

Very nice!

Gone...

Yes indeed, KKeps, but that's Map View, not Street View. As per Mlc1us, I'm not supposed to add Street View thumbs to Map Views even if the Map View is Bing, not Google. Who knew...

Yes, of course, Pdunn... Silly me. And here, I thought it was a UFO event and it's explained by simple fluid dynamics...

Scale is wrong for hay bales. Note the tire tracks...

How sad that John Muir's house is straddled on all sides by highways and strip malls...

After the death of its namesake, Elaine's closed FOREVER today at 4:20 am, NYC time.

http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/05/27/elaines-the-end-comes-with-celebs-and-toasts

Oh, and the exteriors of the Baptistery and the Duomo next to it are incredibly filthy. It's hard to tell from the pictures, but both are streaked with dirt, grime, and soot. The marble would naturally be gleaming white with bright green trim. They are slowly cleaning the surfaces, but I suspect it's like painting a bridge, when they get done, it's time to start over.

In October, 2010, I spent a week in a nice B&B directly across from this place. Lots to see i Florence.

Very nice!

Much more informative linky:

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

Love the sign o the back: "ABNORMAAL"

Unity, Faith, Discipline... But apparently not Intelligence Services Competence.

This location builds heavy equipment for the mining industries.

Security Police training.

There is a tall and wide wall that runs from the Vatican to Castel Sant'Angelo, known locally as "The Pope Walk" because back in the day, when the Vatican was under attack / siege, the Pope could escape unseen along a concealed walkway on top of this wall, to the safety of this fortress.

Also, as to the floor plan, remember, this is a town that Intel would be interested in anyway. As the building was being built, floor by floor, classified sat images would be available. At the time the images were taken, perhaps no one had any interest in this house. But none the less, this is certainly how they knew the floor plan and built a copy.

Maybe not, Parabellum, several media sources say they recreated the house state-side. So, perhaps Fort Lewis, where there are other recreations as well?

US pulling out...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/22/pakistan.drone.strike/index.html?hpt=T1

Why are "design" museums alway hideous?

It *IS NOT* the original KFC, it is a RECREATION of the original KFC. Sanders' original cafe is long gone.

Gone...

WOW! The web site makes it look GLEE! Whoo Hooo!

Seriously take a look... So funny that a child PRISON has such a GOODY GEE WHIZ WOW web site.

Kids in prison... And guess what? IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY!

Gone.

Good grief. Is that a STREET SIGN next to that bus?

Nice? Or hideous depending on taste!

Looks like a place Cool Hand Luke might have stayed.

Odd that an architect owns this place, it really quite hideous. I suppose this guy designs Vegas casinos and rapper "cribs"...

Oh yeah, I see it. Funny!

There are *MANY* feral cats in Rome.

I give 20 euro every few months to these people: http://www.RomanCats.com, the cat sanctuary located at Torre Argentina in downtown Rome.

The Google Sat images show more recent activity.

This is not the actual location (according to Wikipedia), and is actually located some 3/4 of a mile away in the middle of someone's hog farm.

I am *amazed* that this *isn't* a dupe. Great map...

Workers demolished the monument today, no longer exists.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/03/18/bahrain.protests/index.html?hpt=T2

That has got to be one of the more *uglier* houses I've seen.

This is an awesome map.

Winning!

This place sounds like some "scared straight boot camp" for teenage hoods...

This plane is no longer there. Gone from Google, and I drove by the location today.

There is actually another "wing the same size right next to this.

Wikipedia calls this a "minimum security" facility, but I have driven by it several times and can tell you there are two very tall fences topped with razor wire and a "no-man's land" in between. Looks very formidable to me.

Oh gove me a break. "Secret markings"? Good grief.

It's a Motorcycle Safty Training layout.

On *all* US military bases, if you ride a cycle, you have to take a safety course.

What's sad is that this wonderful building is privately owned and falling into a state of disrepair that will eventually end in demolition.

No longer "High Falls", back to "Genesee Brewing Co."

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesee_Brewing_Company

Brewery has a colorful history and is a "contract brewer" for some names you'll recognize.

Ah yes... Venus on a Half-Shell... This is of course at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. One of the world's great museums, if you go make sure to schedule at LEAST a half day, better the whole day. The place is HUGE, and stuffed to the gills with great works, although only (ONLY) two or three Raphaels. It's only my opinion, but after you see enough truly GREAT art in Florence and Rome, you will understand that the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Many Portland "old timers" like me (I was raised there) refer to this building as the twin tits or the Madonna building because of the twin pointy spires. No kidding.

After she's done with that pesky "probation thing", PAR-TAY CENTRAL! What would TMZ do without Lohan?

The "Brill Building Sound" may be the only subgenre of pop music named after a building, for it was in that very building, a former monolith of New York City's Garment District located at 1619 Broadway, where producer Don Kirshner placed the best and brightest songwriters of the Camelot years. They were early-Sixties mainstays, almost all duos, whose very names became emblematic of great pop songwriting: Lieber and Stoller, Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, Bacharach and David, Pomus and Shuman...

Not en-TIRE-ly... There does seem to be some non-tire elements.

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that Creech is where drones are controlled from. Also, I point out that just because the pilot is not in the aircraft does not mean that it doesn't take just as much skill to fly, so I think "quotes" around the word "pilot" in your description is not correct.

One of the so-called "ECHELON" facilities.

The entire neighborhood has been pulled off of Street View.

Awesome. Great find. Very nice.

Ah yes, the inept Russian sleepers that were here 10 years and in the end had nothing to show for it. A sad, sad group. Clearly *NOT* Russia's best.

All they need to do is iron it out...

This image is in Google Earth, not Google Maps.

Yes, I really like these finds too, they're like little nuggets of gold.

I spend a lot of time trolling the maps and occasionally looking up interesting things tat lead to a great find like this, but they are rare...

I use a lot of maps in my work, I'm kind of a nut for sat and topo maps...

Google has a Privacy Policy which is there to protect people like you and I from abuses with respect to Law Enforcement as well as private individuals and commercial concerns, and it *HAS* to be applied UNIFORMLY.

L132?

So, according to the color chart, which sub-model is this?

Incredible.

Yes, I see that, but I mean the Street View. Amazing no one submitted it sooner.

Unbelievable, but this map isn't "in" yet! Good score.

Hey EDITOR:

Thanks, your description is better than mine, and you found the categories I misses. Good job.

Recently in the news.

Sadly, HP Corvallis, where the original hp-41 series was designed and build, is now mostly a ghost town, HP being mostly a Chinese brand now.

Gone...

I recently drove down this street. The Prez's drive has a gate and there is a black Suburban sitting in it with a couple of guys wearing Ray Bans, but the street itself is accessible.

In the Google sat view, it looks like the 2001 Monolith...

Boy! I'm interested in the place next door.

I was stationed at Beale in the 90's as a fire fighter. In front of this thing there were always dozens of dead birds.

Also, a note, there are no longer any permanently assigned "alert birds" at the Alert Hangars at the South end of the air field, though Air Guard F-16's and F-15's sometimes visit.

Well, yes, Base Ops is located there. I know it as the location of the Command Post because those are the people located there that I deal with most often...

It's near a lot of cool stuff in downtown, an area that was called "Skid Row" when I was growing up in Portland, but is now very expensive condos.

Building gone now.

Now this is a truck. I first drove a Chevy Suburban as the Fire Chief's driver at Homestead AFB in 1985... Fell in love.

I have a thing for mid-80's early-90's Chevy Suburbans, but it's Politically Incorrect to lust after such gas-guzzlers, so I try to restrain such feelings. Bun man, they are big enough to LIVE in!

Elvis was seen serving clam boats here a year after he "died".

Not there anymore?

Or, it could be just prior to a terrible but typical Third World transportation accident...

I was in Sienna just last week. Uploaded a picture. The piazza is also the site of a famous horse race:

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

Outstanding, Skyeye.

I spent 6 months at Shemya in the mid-80's. It's really not that bad, though there was little to do other than drinking...

Oh, it * defiantly* is. Been there...

Notice the identical jet on the south end that already has airline markings. Not a P8.

P-8A "Poseidon"? Think so? These sat pics are *NOT* that recent. Most likely just different 737 varients.

This not an A&W. It's Sparky's World Famous - Uncle Sam, Pig, Chicken, Root Beer Family.

In 2008, the voters of Oklahoma County approved the purchase of the plant, which was to be leased to neighboring Tinker Air Force Base.

I don't see it in the full image. Is it gone now?

Choice! Very nice indeed!

That stuff is against the law where I live...

Mmmm, me funny. "FOUR year old".

Not according to the FBI, the Canadian equivalent, and anyone with two eyes and a brain. HAMC == GANG. A for year old would be able to tell you that.

About 200 feet up the road towards the main base, note the wide white-ish stripe across both lanes. The thinner stripe near-by is a mechanical spike strip that can be activated.

This whole section of road is no longer available. Who lives along this stretch?

Mom and dad to be charged with hoax...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/18/colorado.balloon.investigation/index.html

This was the location of the famous Roman Polanski incedent.

Also here:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/46904/

I've noticed that Eastern Block air bases often lack the large number of maintenance hangers that you see at most US air bases. Surely these aircraft need regular engine and structural services… Where do they do it?

Much better "More Info" linky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Jovis