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This is neat. I finished watching Totoro with my kids ten minutes ago and then see this on VGT. The Catbus is a character in the Totoro Anime series:

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

Based on loose rules of interpretation this is our first entry in this week's safar.

Hey, welcome back!

Welcome to VGT!

Welcome to VGT! I love your first post.

OK, that's breathtaking. One of those cases where the thumbnail doesn't even come close to the grandeur of the full SV scene.

Three adults standing around watching a bunch of children try to lift the car out of the ditch.

Please be sure to keep your thumbnails 150x150. Thanks!

Karma for a train mural!

Karma for a cool wacky train!

Karma for a strange train!

I love these industrial revolution era posts today. One of my favorite topics. Thanks!

Mega Kudos for a double post!

Welcome back!

A scene for the 2011 action film Hanna was filmed at the Spreepark location.

LOL. They finally restored this plane after it had been blown off the pedestal three years ago (see pics). They asked the city not to water near the pedestal the night before they remounted the plan so the ground would not be soggy. So the city didn't water... around the Corsair at the other end of the base. The crew showed up, erected the crane, lifted the plane, and the crane sunk into the soggy ground and dropped the plane and broke of a wing and crushed part of the body.

Should have saved it for tomorrow... just sayin'. :)

Welcome back!

Welcome back!

And a barrel o' karma for this inventive use of old glory.

Woohoo. Special archaic karma to you!

Jet engine test cells here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=United+States&hl=en&ll=41.239835,-78.197594&spn=0.012698,0.024955&t=k&z=16

In Map moe you'll see that this is Reactor Road.

Excellent. Karma to you!

Good find! Karma to you.

Very cool "digital" clock 120 degrees to the right. Someone should post it.

You're on a roll today with some great posts. Thanks!

I hadn't seen these before. Very cool.

Bowls. I think this is a first in SV. Rake in some Karma!

Great post. Welcome to VGT!

I never heard of Futsal before. Double Karma points for a new sport to VGT and me.

First SV punters. Karma points to you!

More Karma (lots flowing in this game) for the first SV motocross rider. We had a riderless bike in the past but this is a first.

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/motocross-bike/

Karma to you. First handball!

Karma points! First SV cricket game I think.

Its a paintball field but there aren't any people. :(

Airborne hang glider up to the right and a jogger to the left. A three-in-one!

Very cool

Very clear shots in BEV.

Good find. We had a guy WITH a rugby ball once but this is the first match in progress. Karma points to you.

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/guy-with-a-rugby-ball/

Well, there was fire juggling found already but this is definitely the first example of soccer ball juggling. A very exclusive sport. Not quite as popular as bowling ball or chain saw juggling. :)

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/juggling-with-torches/

Yet more karma for another new 'sport.'

A new sport! Karma points to you.

Cool mural on the font. Neat find.

Cool collection you have going today. I like it.

Far out. I love eBoy. Good catch.

Related sign here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=United+States&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=United+States&ll=33.790588,-84.385085&spn=0.004414,0.007038&z=17&layer=c&cbll=33.790493,-84.385026&panoid=JforrbndUgMk8DsXi213tA&cbp=12,245.1,,2,-15.5

Spectacular.

Wow! What a great catch.

I love these types of monuments.

Excellent!

Be sure to put the monuments in Building-Monuments too!

Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957

Chilling.

May favorite so far!

Hey, welcome back. Cool map.

Way to go! You've averaged something like one map every sixteen hours for five and a half years.

He used to work for Santa at the north pole. He hit the glass ceiling there. You see Santa considers elves nothing more than cheap labor. Its really a family business so there isn't much room for elves in the upper ranks of the firm. In 1970, fed up with a lack of a career path he was enticed by J.J. Keebler to leave the north pole and join him at the Hollow Tree Factory near Philadelphia, PA which had started operations the previous year. He worked his way up through the ranks. Since an...

Very cool.

My friends at the north pole tell me this guy is quite an a-hole. Very much the Trump of the elf world. Most elves see him as a sell-out. Me? I like his cookies.

Welcome to VGT! Neat first post.

Kevin

Cool graffiti/mural on the corner. And the um, "special" guy just to the right of the mural.

Brazilian Air Force on the left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COA_of_Brazilian_Air_Force.svg

I've read multiple references to a replica site built in the US for practice. It will be interesting to see if future imagery of some of the US special forces training sites have captured the replica compound. I know SEALs train at Eglin AFB. The team that went in was former Seal Team 6 (i.e DEBGRU). I have no idea where they might have conducted their training. They are garrisoned at Oceana in Virginia. Maybe they trained at Quantico.

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Welcome to VGT!

Invader was detained by the LA police this week:
http://hyperallergic.com/23152/space-invader-arrested/

View of the levee here:

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Awesome job on these U-Hauls.

I think based on the original image and the next one down the road:

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Welcome back! I think you might have just set a new record for the amount of time between new posts. :)

... and Janis Joplin. Here's Leonard Cohen's song for Janis "Chelsea Hotel No. 2." One of my all-time favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk7DOe5EGgM

By Cyclops

Welcome to VGT!

Please make sure your thumbnails and URL match. You submitted a URL from Google but a Birds Eye View thumbnail. I fixed this one for you.

I like all these mountain letters. Of course "kf" was my favorite. I had been a while since there had been a lot of activity in that category. Thanks for these.

Your 2000th post! Good job.

Hey Waco, good collection of high points. Thanks!

Kevin

Yup. Good find!

Their roasting facility is in Alameda on the waterfront near the Oakland airport. When they are doing a batch the whole area for miles around smells like coffee. Mmmmmmm.

I sense a blog post coming. :)

Welcome to VGT! Be sure to add More Info links in the future. You can post one in the comments and we'll add it to the map.

Kevin

Please disable the push pin from your map before creating the thumbnail image.

thanks,

Kevin

Another one on the reverse side of the building.

Censored in three of the four angles.

Welcome to VGT!

(no need to add city and state to the title since it is already in the info you submit)

We might start with the hood medallion. Does anyone recognize the manufacturer?

I googled around various variations of armored car and truck but saw nothing.

Subject of a mythbusters episode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282004_season%29#Breakstep_Bridge

Updated with a Bing link that had better imagery.

Okba Ibn Nafa Airbase. Other than the name Google doesn't seem to come up with much.

http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=LY84290

Then the tool you use to create your thumbnails is flawed. Look at your thumbnail. Then look at Google SV. Your car is squashed and shortened in the thumbnail compared to the original. Please don't submit any more distorted thumbnails.

Find a way to make your thumbnails 150 x 150. That's square. When you submit rectangular thumbnails they get distorted in the preview. We'll start rejecting your distorted thumbnails going forward.

We can leave 'em both. One for the site one for the new dome.

Sorry to see it close. Back in the '70s I visited the brewery. They had a museum of all sorts of oddities with things like the skulls of cattle whose horns had curled back into their eyes, etc... Very Ripley's Believe It Or Not - like.

adrbr's 12,000th submission!! Way to go and thanks for all the great maps.

No need to put the city and state in the title. Just the name of the building is fine. I'll clean these up for you.

thanks,

Kevin

This looks like a former SAM missile site.

WTF?! That's some serious reality-modification. Leads to some interesting extrapolation though...

This is Google right? They sell advertising? I'll bet within two years they'll be re-selling advertising space in Times Square. They could charge a premium by tracking which places in SV get looked at most and re-purpose billboards, walls, signs, etc.

Starbucks pays to have every Peets Coffee changed into a Starbucks franchise, etc...

On December 26, 2008, the tower was pulled down.

Reported to be the world's tallest wooden house.

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

Move one click to the left and he's shown without face blur. Looks like he might be wearing a full head Satan mask or something.

Gotta agree with you. Weird is right.

http://casiestewart.com/mc-donalds-toys/

http://torontophotoblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/extreme-decorations.html

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