jbottero: Comments

This is the beginning of the ranch ares, and includes some buildings up the road as well.

I'm surprised this wasn't already listed!

You couldn't pay me enough to get on one of these.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey#Controversy

On 29 February 2008, the United States Air Force announced that a partnership between Northrop Grumman and EADS had won the contract to produce the new KC-45 aerial refueling tanker. The contract is considered to be worth up to $40 billion with 179 planes to be delivered over the next ten to fifteen years. The production of these aircraft will be at Brookley.

Actually this is an abandoned bridge trestle in East St. Louis, Illinois.

East St. Louis is across the river (and state line) from St. Louis, and is an extremely economically depressed city, 90 percent of which is abandoned.

And some interesting stories here:

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080215/SPORTS0411/802150309/1013&nav_category=

Just behind the prison there looks to be a cometary.

This is where they make the famouse "E-Meters"...

http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologygold.html

Great pictures here:

http://www.opacity.us/site193_ashley_huber_breaker_blue_coal.htm

Indeed, there is ONE thing conspicuously absent, though I'm sure in Jamaica it's not a problem to get...

The house looks all boarded up, and there are no autos in the lot. Must have been a *very* private collection.

That does not look like any military or contract site to me, it clearly someone living there in a bunch of sketchy trailers and other make-shift structures.

I geuss I relly don't understand the difference between this and:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/6612/

and this:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/30652/

To me all three of these are the same thing because they all lead to the exact same Google image.

Is there grass growing on the roofs of those buildings?

Suzanne Pleshette also lived here.

Elementary school, eh? Looks more like a prison to me. Though these days, what's the difference?

Is that a put-put golf course next to the ship?

Yes... I was humor impaired on the 19th...

Take a look at the rear fuselage. Not you're standard issue C-130.

Upon looking at the Local Live, they seem to be reservoirs or storm runoff ponds.

I wonder if all those low flying Local Live planes at the border make the patrol guys nervous?

Well, it's not really sinking... Picture stitching issue.

Something strange going on with the GM image. Look at some of the buildings around the prison. It's almost as if it's two images with some transparency, some ghosting.

All those one-hit-wonder country stars selling cars for a living now...

Same range that was closed for awhile after an F-16 strafed a local public school by mistake:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/041106-strafing-range.htm

This is the same range that was closed for a while after an F-16 strafed a nearby public school by mistake:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/041106-strafing-range.htm

What facility are these at? GM doesn't show it as a military reservation of any kind, but clearly it is...

What *type* of test track?

Maxwell is home to Air University and several other military education programs such as Officer Training School and Senior NCO Academy.

Can't find a lot on this. Anyone?

I think it's a National Geographic aerial photo overlay.

Camp Cupcake

Marines and soldiers at the outlying forward operating bases have another name for al-Asad -- "Camp Cupcake." It is a place where an oasis has served traders since the time of Abraham of the Bible. Al-Asad is thought of as luxurious compared with most other bases in Iraq. New housing, called "can cities," are springing up all over Al Asad. Metal trailers linked together provide one or two soldiers with 10-foot by 20-foot living areas. Latrines have running water and...

Watch out for the black ice...

Isn't Peter Griffiths the fat guy on that animated TV show? Family Guy?

It's astounding that a house like this costs upwards of a million...

Probably worth a lot more as luxury mansions like those that surround it.

More from this location here:

http://www.grahametaylor.com/gallery/americasept02/america_3.htm

Sad...

Known as "Monk's" Seinfeld.

I see what you're talking about, but I think that's something different.

Latest Local Live shows it's gone now.

A vegetable farm in Malibu, eh? Must be some exclusive and spendy veggies...

As it turns out, this is also a Robert Bruno house. Perhaps he lives in it.

http://pics3.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles17110.jpg

Here's what I found interesting:

"The highest number ever recorded was 302, and the lowest number 222. The average number of inmates during the 29 years of service was around 260. There were approximately 1545 total men imprisoned there and the NPS indicated that while 1,576 number were issued, over thirty convicts were returned to Alcatraz with different numbers issued."

Those are very small numbers for a Federal Prison.

I'm not getting anything from the LL link.

Of course like most things these days, Schwinns are made in China where ther dip 'em in lead paint just for us Americans...

Oh, it's an area with Big Houses on Small Lots next to very busy roads. Boones Farry is like living next to I-5, it's a big road... If I had that money, I'd live a little further from the road...

well, it's a big house, but if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't want Boones Ferry Road in my back yard...

It looks like a flat disk. Where does this water tower hold its water? Is it an optical illusion, or is it under construction?

There seems to be some construction shacks on top, but no materials or vehicles on the ground...

It will probably be taken down soon, but here's this nutcase's server folder containing such things as pictures of the gun and a manifesto.

http://zami.pp.fi/jokela/

Now an ANG bas:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/pease.htm

Looks to me like it's landing, not taking off. It's *on the runway* at the departure end.

From GlobalSecurity.org:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/19fd.htm

19th Fighter Division
The 19th Fighter Division was established in November 1951. The division is believed to be comprised of the 55th, 56th and 57th Regiments.

The division is currently located at the Zhengzhou Airbase and flies the Su-27 and the J-7 aircraft.

Burned to the ground.

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,2508,00.html#26_423

Also, that drive-through next to the Visitor's Center is where they take random cars in and take 'em apart. No kidding. You give your permission by default when you drive on a Federal Facility.

Looks more like it was under construction. Note the lack of equipment around it.

Awning over a sewage pond. Or maybe water reservior (note the watter tank).

Where is the map iamge actually from? Not Google Maps...

Looks like a cheap used plastic office plant... The kind you find next to garbage dumpsters or at Goodwill...

Here's an interesting web site on this. Seems there where two others in Vera's situation:

http://www.ij.org/private_property/atlantic_city/background.html

Actually, it's probably an An-74, essentially the same as an AN-72, except modified for Arctic (extreme cold weather) use...

Interesting coincidence, I was looking at this last week. That's a C-141, so it's an old image.

There is development there? I was there three years ago for a class, I know they have a Navy brig and a new Commisary, but didn't see much in the way of contractor work...

I had thought maybe an old tank farm, but it didn't look like the right type of area, very little industrial...

Probably Bremerton. That's the side I've taken it from...

Maybe it's more of those Romanian UFOs:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/31474/

Apparently, the aliens are teaching farming technique to the Romanians. This may have serious consequences to the balance of world power.

This is the Coleman Dock.

Here's some ferry cam links:

http://www.ferrycam.com/dcseabain.htm

However, there are some great travelogue stories about Abu Dom. I was looking for info on these buildings but found nothing.

http://www.google.com/search?q=abu+dom

It is kind of neat. Some of the debate says it's not as secret as all that, but it's certainly a rare glimpse!

Also discussed here:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/02/1929234

Er, that's quite the URL. Should have just given the coordinates. Sorry!

"Are there Special Forces at Ft. Lewis?"

I've seen a building that says "Special Forces" on it and has a big fence, here:

...

In the Google pic, there is a lot of obvious structure damage (blue roofs are storm damage tarps), and road refuse. What storm would it have been?

You'll notice two more a little away from the others in "stealth" mode...

I am told by one of my Ft Lewis friends that this is exactly what it is..

In LA that's 3-4 million dollar house...

Security Cam video of bridge going down:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ab_1186054443&p=1

Explaination of last paragraph of description:

The building had been started, but than money backing ran out and it was on hold. At that time, the original crane (pictured) was taken down. After about a year, the project got going again and the new crane was put up.

Didn't they tear it down?

Special Forces land in a cornfield on the grounds of a Colorado prison, about 3 miles off target. MISSION READY, YEAH BABY!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289551,00.html

It's a UPS truck.

Than what's that thing at the Mohave airport? It's not the sail barge we're looking for?

If you rotate the bird's eye pic, you can see the building before they started to hack into it...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287309,00.html

What do you suppose it is? A private fishing lake?

HAZardous...

This has been out there forever, I'm surprised it hadn't been added before now! Congrats...

From the Google map, looks like there where 3 at one time...

But it's obviously camo. It isn't "exactly" a picture because it isn't a picture. I mean, obviously a roof can have a mural, but there is some artistic intent in a mural. A random camo pattern on a roof could be many things, but it's not likly a mural...

Unless the definition has wide lattitude...

Broken bone machines.

What's interesting about that is that it's not in the Google Map pic, so it's reasonably recent (or they removed it).

Ruins also used for search and rescue training.

Given all the cars and the fire truck display, I think either a high ranking officer retirement / finny flight, change of command, or VIP arrival.

Probably the Base Command Post, sort of the nerve center for base operations. All USAF bases have one, usually on the flightline.

"Le pont de Langlois" by Van Gogh.

There is supposed to be a radio telescope up that way, but I don't thing these buildings are it.

Now, a little up the road at 22.373393, 31.624542 is something interesting. What are these patterns?

Really? I thought it was a blue Chevy pick-up.

In the "old days", billboards had paper surfaces that where put up with glue. These days, they are actually huge plastic tarps that fit over the board like a fitted sheet.

The Google map shows a couple of uninteresting D.C. office buildings with courtyards. Oh, and the rooftop missile batteries...