The your hometown thread

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-01-15 04:25pm

post a picture of the city/town/village/cow pasture you live in!

my fine city of Providence, RI

day (west end/downtown):

night (east side):

EDIT:

i almost forgot..... here's a hometown fellow:

Brown University and RISD

and the state capitol

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-01-15 05:26pm

Adlington:

One of several churches in a really small village. This one has been converted into a tool-hire shop.

This was the whole town in 1914:

Another church:

The other church, slightly down the road from the above one:

Another...you've guessed it...church.

This is a church that used to exist...

And this is the other church that is now an Indian restaurant/takeaway.Excellent food, i know everyone there cos my family are in so often.

Lots of churches in my village.

It's essentially 2 roads between Chorley and Bolton, with a few houses and churches between those roads.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-01-15 05:40pm

My city:
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

An aerial view:

Central square in stuttgart (The Schloßplatz)

a wide pic

Overview of the inner city

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-01-15 05:54pm

Cleveland, Ohio

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-01-15 05:56pm

Fighter of Foo wrote: <SNIP>

*sings: All the little chicks with the crimson lips sing, Cleavland Rocks, Cleavland Rocks.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-01-15 06:07pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Fighter of Foo wrote: <SNIP>
*sings: All the little chicks with the crimson lips sing, Cleavland Rocks, Cleavland Rocks.

gee, it's not everyday I hear that song. Wait, it is.

And really, I live in Parma, about 10 miles from Cleveland, but I can't find any pictures.

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-01-15 06:08pm

Albuquerque Stadium, formerly Dukes Stadium, now home of the Isotopes (whee...

)

Balloon Fiesta

Aerial shot of downtown

Nob Hill (a neighborhood in ABQ) - the general hooker area. Used to live at the uni about 6 blocks west of that intersection. The tattoo shop where I got my first tattoo and my tongue piercing is on the corner of the intersection that isnt showing.

And that's all I feel like looking up right now.

~ver

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-01-15 06:39pm

Denver, CO here

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-01-15 07:19pm

^^ Downtown daytime

^^ BUDWEISER PLANT, BABY!!

^^ Downtwon at night (An easy 3 minute walk from my house to this particular view **GREAT FOR FIRST DATES!!!**

^^ Red Dot=My house.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-15 07:52pm

http://johnford.net/mt/archives/000468.html

pics of wilton manors. i just ate at Dairy Queen a few hours ago

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-01-15 08:38pm

Live WebCam of downtown Charleston, WV, by WCHS Channel 8 news

Another Webcam by rival WSAZ Channel 3 News

And last, but not least, video from WOWK TV 13, the last of the local channels, with streaming video from Charleston and Huntington found at this broken link: http://www.wowktv .com/skycams. cfm

And finally, with Active X streaming Video, shots of the River and Kanawha River Blvd, curtesy of the Charleston Daily Mail, available at this broken link: http://www.dailymail. com/web cam/ (also available in Java)

Flash · Post by **Flash** » 2004-01-15 08:56pm

Brisbane

A different view of Brisbane

Brisbane by night

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-01-15 09:03pm

Because no such images of Madison Heights exist, I'll give you the next closest thing:

DETROIT ROCK CITY!!

^^^
The Renaissance Center.

^^^
View from afar.

^^^
The Joe Louis Arena, home of Detroit Red Wings hockey.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-01-15 09:14pm

Fighter of Foo wrote:gee, it's not everyday I hear that song. Wait, it is.

And really, I live in Parma, about 10 miles from Cleveland, but I can't find any pictures.

Moon over Parma, bring my love to me tonight
Brought her to Cleveland underneath your silvery light
We're going bowling, so don't lose her in soulland
Moon over Parma, tonight.

(different Drew Carey themesong)

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-01-16 12:58am

Long exposure photos...

Me an' my buddy Flip, overlooking the San Fernando Valley at night...

Another shot o' the valley, a little washed out from a nearby street light, showing the fires we had a couple months ago...

And here's a shot of the Valley during the day... not mine, though, and not quite sure which part of the Valley this was taken from...

If any o' you ever saw Three Days in the Valley... don't believe anything you saw. That movie is bull and shit. The Valley's a rather boring place... except for the porn. Chatsworth is, indeed, the porn capital of the universe. If you saw Boogie Nights... that was a little more accurate.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-01-16 01:17am

Since Deptford is about as uninteresting a place you can imagine, here's some pics of Philadelphia:

Independence Hall, birthplace of the United States.

Philadelphia skyline from the University of Pennsylvania campus.

View down the Ben Franklin Parkway, towards City Hall. Fun fact: until 1987, a "gentleman's agreement" prevented any building in Philadelphia from being taller than William Penn's hat on the top of city hall's tower. This has the unintended benefit of sparing the city from the horrible plague of glass crackerbox skyscrapers that afflicted the rest of the country in the postwar era.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. Another fun fact: in order to prevent the city from cutting his funding before the building was finished, the builder had the wings built first, then the central temple, figuring not even Philadelphia City Council would leave the museum with two disconnect wings. He was very nearly proven wrong.

Also, the collection is fantastic. Well worth an entire afternoon.

Pat's King of Steaks and Geno's Steaks, on opposite corners of 9th and Passyunk.

The Ben Franklin Bridge, connecting Philadelphia to Camden, NJ. One of Philadelphia's architectural treasures.

Two more images of the bridge, just because I like it so much.

Philadelphia City Hall.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2004-01-16 01:39am

Apparently Columbus will need to be cooler looking before I bother.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-01-16 04:01am

Born and raised in Albany, Oregon (about 40,000 people).
Veteran's Day Parade, M1 moving through downtown
Partial aerial view of Albany
Small aerial view of downtown
Now attend ASU in Tempe, AZ.
Small picture down University Drive downtown
View of downtown Tempe. Salt River bed is now a big lake.
Larger view of most of Tempe
Boring overhead view which may not work

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-01-16 05:09am

Daltonator · Post by **Daltonator** » 2004-01-16 09:18am

There aren't a lot of pictures up of my hometown, though there're probably some pictures out there of Belmont Racetrack that I can't find.

As compensation, I instead present a bit of good old New York City.

Rockefeller Center

Times Square

Central Park

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-16 11:58am

Images of Pima County Courthouse

Tucson Medical Center

This is the hospital where I work. The main hospital is all on one floor because the people who originally built it didn't want to block anyone's view. Needless to say, this means I walk a lot every night at work.

A crapy picture of downtown Tucson. Someplace I only go by accident or for jury duty.

This is just the outside portion of the museum. The Titan missile museum is associated with the museum plus there's still the boneyard at Davis Monthan Air Force Base that you can take tourgs of. It's pretty cool just driving past it..

This is the family dog, Remington, up at Rose Canyon Lake on Mt. Lemmon which is just outside of Tucson. I doubt it looks like this now since the big fires last summer.

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2004-01-16 03:02pm

Scarborough, wonderful little seaside town. Population: 70,000, IIRC.

TOWN HALL:

A VIEW OF THE VALLEY LEADING TO THE SOUTH SIDE:

A VIEW FROM THE END OF THE VALLEY LOOKING OUT TO SEA:

A VIEW OF THE BAY AND THE CASTLE ON THE PENINSULAR:

PICTURE OF THE CASTLE (note the red brick area on the castle wall, that's from shelling from German warships in the Great War):

PANORAMIC VIEW FROM THE CASTLE:
http://www.e-sbc.co.uk/index.htm?http:/ ... amas.htm&2

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2004-01-16 06:25pm

Well, I'm in Merritt Island, which has all kinds of interesting things around it.

Merritt Island Airport (KCOI)

This is where I live... j/k. Florida Wildlife Refugee (which happens to be sitting next to......)

The Kennedy Space Center

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building... huge, I'll find the specs later.

*mumbles something about screwing up url tags and dressing links*
Shows Merritt Island and the like, great arial photos, but focuses on Kennedy Space Center

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-01-16 11:00pm

Toronto's night-time skyline:

Nathan Philips Square downtown, where we went skating last week:

The tallest phallic symbol in the world:

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2004-01-16 11:11pm

Less than a mile from my house, with Superstition Mountain in the distance.