This picture was sent to me by John Dunajcik. Can you name the famous city in this picture and how did you come up with the answer?
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Easy. Champs de Elysees, Paris.
New York City
I think this is New York for the following reasons:
1) Cars are American, not European and so are the busses
2) The signs are in English (e.g. Shuttle Service on the bus on the left)
3) The lit tower (on the left) in the background looks like one in NYC
It’s Los Angeles.
To commenter #3, I can add that it is pitch dark at 5:02pm with Christmas decorations showing, so this is a large northern English-speaking city in December. Indeed it must be pretty far north or on the eastern end of its time zone. The cars drive on the right, so that rules out Britain. There is a metro station on the right-hand side.
The bus with the “Shuttle Service” sign has the same front as NY City buses, and the cab in front of it is a design seen in NYC, but that alone isn’t definitive. If it’s 5th Avenue, the metro stop pretty much has to be the IND at 53rd St. right in the major shopping area. However, I don’t know a NYC department store or major business ending in “…tton’s”, as Benetton and Louis Vuitton don’t use the apostrophe-s, and the name of the “Realty System” on the sign in the right foreground can’t quite be made out. I’d say 5th Avenue, but can’t rule out Bloor St. in Toronto (Yonge has only 4 lanes) and don’t know about cities further west.
I’m puzzled by the number of buses. Aren’t there too many of them? It kind of supports the idea of huge city (like NYC). On the other hand there are way too many street lights (on poles). Was NYC like that in 70’s?
>Anonymi wrote:
Easy. Champs de Elysees, Paris.
New York City
It’s Los Angeles.
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You don’t need to have detective eyes to see that some people didn’t read the directions.
I see “Virginia Realty” so I’m guessing it’s either Richmond or Jamestown.
Another possibility is Reno NV, which has a Virginia St.
Or Atlantic City NJ, where the Monopoly board comes from, since they have Virginia Ave.
My guess was also NYC, but I don’t have anything to add to what has already been written except … I wonder if “tton’s” could be “Hutton’s” after Barbara Hutton, the heiress of the Woolworth kazillions. The time kinda looks like the early 1970s: big American gas guzzlers, old-fashioned buses. The streetlamps (very close together and high powered for a city street) and wait-for-the-buses pedestrian islands look very particular to one place….
I cant believe nobody guessed this yet.
John ; )
Wow John (if it’s really you, and I hope it isn’t)…what happened to *WIN WITH GRACE*, lose with dignity?
I lose with a meniacle fit of unbridled rage.
I pitty da fool that beats me.
Hey,
I’m a sore loser too!
Grrrr!
Maybe the answer has something to do with the numbers showing on top of the buses. Which city would have at least 8148 buses? And is the number system the same in different cities?
On further thought, this could also be 34th Street looking east. The architecture on the left resembles Macy’s, which is between 34th and 35th. It makes sense that looking east is toward a darker sky, and maybe there was no traffic light at the big round juncture with Broadway, explaining the inability to pick out one in the photo(?).
Someone playing in Bill Goichberg’s tournaments at the old McAlpin Hotel (now Herald Towers condos) in the early 1970s would know the scene!
I can make a particular conjecture: Before the Port Authority Bus Terminal near the Lincoln Tunnel was built, did buses going to/from the tunnel stream along 34th? That would cinch it.
I could check with my parents or other old New Yorkers, but that would be like consulting a chess engine on the other problems :-).
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