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X-Rated
01-13-2013, 09:20 PM
Here's a thread where you can post some noted national sites. Yeah, you can look 'em up. But Where's the tower?

1. Trump Tower
http://www.trumphotelcollection.com/images/th/chi_1.jpg

2. Aon Tower
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/images/2008/09/26/aon.jpg

3. Willis tower
http://skyscrapercenter.com/images/albums/userpics/10002/Sears1a.jpg

4. Reunion Tower. Bonus on the specific location of where the shot is from.
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/6c/63/dc/reunion-tower-lookout.jpg

5. Liberty Memorial Tower
http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/kansasCity/LibertyMemorialTowerAtNight.jpg

KG4CGC
01-13-2013, 09:32 PM
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Key%20West%202012/fb190ab6.jpg

KG4CGC
01-13-2013, 09:54 PM
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Key%20West%202012/Southernmost_zpsb5473b9c.jpg

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 10:00 PM
http://j-walkblog.com/images2/4corners.JPG

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 10:02 PM
That ain't Aon Center! This is Aon Center:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Downtown_Los_Angeles_-_Aon_Center.jpg

XE1/N5AL
01-13-2013, 10:04 PM
4. Reunion Tower. Bonus on the specific location of where the shot is from.
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/6c/63/dc/reunion-tower-lookout.jpg
I grew up in Dallas, so that's an easy question for me.

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 10:05 PM
I've seen Reunion Tower—it's in Dallas, and I'm guessing the shot is from the infamous grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza.

KG4CGC
01-13-2013, 10:08 PM
Oh, this was a game? Shoot. Didn't catch that.

X-Rated
01-13-2013, 10:12 PM
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/n9xr/Kentucky%20visit/IMG_2877-Copy.jpg

X-Rated
01-13-2013, 10:14 PM
I grew up in Dallas, so that's an easy question for me.

We lived in Dallas from 1984 to 1986. I loved the town.

NA4BH
01-13-2013, 10:15 PM
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/n9xr/Kentucky%20visit/IMG_2877-Copy.jpg

Churchill Downs

XE1/N5AL
01-13-2013, 10:16 PM
I've seen Reunion Tower—it's in Dallas, and I'm guessing the shot is from the infamous grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza.
You're right. When we had out-of-town visitors, they all wanted to go to Dealey Plaza.

X-Rated
01-13-2013, 10:17 PM
Oh, this was a game? Shoot. Didn't catch that.

It is an opportunity to see what we recognize from around the country.

X-Rated
01-13-2013, 10:19 PM
That ain't Aon Center! This is Aon Center:



They are all over the place.

X-Rated
01-13-2013, 10:24 PM
This is near the Wild Turkey distilleries in Kentucky.

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m165/n9xr/Kentucky%20visit/IMG_2844.jpg

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 10:33 PM
http://www.inetours.com/San_Diego/Images/BlboPk/Cntr-4-Perf2_5684.jpg

kf0rt
01-13-2013, 10:35 PM
http://j-walkblog.com/images2/4corners.JPG

Is that a bubble butt, or fabric gravity?

ETA: Doesn't look like four corners to me.

XE1/N5AL
01-13-2013, 10:44 PM
Is that a bubble butt, or fabric gravity?
Her hands are in two different Romney states and her feet are in two different Obama states.

NA4BH
01-13-2013, 10:48 PM
http://www.inetours.com/San_Diego/Images/BlboPk/Cntr-4-Perf2_5684.jpg

Is that that Capistrano place, where they do all the swallowing?

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 10:49 PM
Is that that Capistrano place, where they do all the swallowing?

Nope.

X-Rated
01-13-2013, 10:57 PM
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/28336846.jpg

This is somewhat near W5GA.

NA4BH
01-13-2013, 11:16 PM
Nope.

I pretty much got nothin then.

NA4BH
01-13-2013, 11:27 PM
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8501/8379501768_1a41bbe8d3_m.jpg

KG4CGC
01-13-2013, 11:31 PM
It is an opportunity to see what we recognize from around the country.


OK. Where am I?



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Houses/CAP_zps95abbdfe.jpg

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 11:41 PM
OK. Where am I?

Columbia, SC

n2ize
01-13-2013, 11:42 PM
http://deadreckoning1.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/camden_fatboy.jpg

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 11:43 PM
I pretty much got nothin then.

It's pretty obscure: The Museum of Man in Balboa Park, San Diego. It was built for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exhibition.

KG4CGC
01-13-2013, 11:45 PM
Columbia, SC
No. SC wouldn't put a woman on top of a building.

NQ6U
01-13-2013, 11:54 PM
No. SC wouldn't put a woman on top of a building.

Good point, although I couldn't tell it was a woman.

KG4CGC
01-13-2013, 11:56 PM
Good point, although I couldn't tell it was a woman.
Well then, hopefully that's a hint.

KG4CGC
01-14-2013, 04:00 AM
Well then, hopefully that's a hint.
It's in a popular midwestern city not too far from a major city.

NY4Q
01-14-2013, 09:23 AM
Sauron's Tower (before it fell) with Mt. Doom in the background...
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X-Rated
01-14-2013, 10:34 AM
OK. Where am I?



I remember this one. You have posted it before. North and West of here across the state line from me.

X-Rated
01-14-2013, 10:38 AM
Sauron's Tower (before it fell) with Mt. Doom in the background...
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Oh jeez, the French and their towers. Wasn't the call there FR0DO or did they use the call of Sam, W1SE?

NY4Q
01-14-2013, 11:25 AM
Oh jeez, the French and their towers. Wasn't the call there FR0DO or did they use the call of Sam, W1SE?

Not sure, but that is one more arc between the two antenna.

XE1/N5AL
01-14-2013, 03:19 PM
I've driven past here many times. Can you guess the latitude, longitude and altitude?
8624

X-Rated
01-14-2013, 03:24 PM
I've driven past here many times. Can you guess the latitude, longitude and altitude?
8624

Is it buried near Grant's tomb?

W5GA
01-15-2013, 06:45 AM
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/28336846.jpg

This is somewhat near W5GA.

What is it, and where is it, Jerry?

NQ6U
01-15-2013, 10:09 AM
What is it, and where is it, Jerry?

I believe it's Paul Bunyan's penis.

X-Rated
01-15-2013, 02:12 PM
It is the monument at the corner of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.

kb2vxa
01-15-2013, 04:51 PM
"I believe it's Paul Bunyan's penis."

No, THIS is.

XE1/N5AL
01-15-2013, 05:21 PM
^^^ Imagine how much Viagra it's costing the government to keep that tourist attraction operating.

KC2UGV
01-15-2013, 05:37 PM
^^^ Imagine how much Viagra it's costing the government to keep that tourist attraction operating.

Probably 25% of that state's GDP :rofl:

KG4CGC
01-15-2013, 05:39 PM
Probably 25% of that state's GDP :rofl:
It's an inflatable. There's a duct to a geothermal site and a fan blowing it up from 500 feet underground.