Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[DBhomebrew]

Yes

 

[D.B.Moody]

That place is all spiffy. It's been, I assume recently, restored. It has a moorish influenced architecture. It's crammed in an old city. It has the commandments on top and five pointed stars in the windows. This has got to be a restored synagogue in Europe. I've been having no luck finding it with those and similar words. I'm going to dinner.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Well, the secret was to add "striped walls" to those other words. (restored synagogue moorish striped walls Europe) Maybe the spaghetti at dinner helped me think to add that.
Verdun, France.

 

[DBhomebrew]

@D.B.Moody got it!

This building was built in the 1870s to replace the original that was destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War. Desecrated by the Germans in WW2, Jewish-American veterans helped restore it after the war. It again fell into disrepair and was subject to anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism. When I first found it in my research, they were fundraising for a restoration which they've very recently completed.

Here's a pic pulled from the online National Archives collection. Members of Gen Omar Bradley's 12th Army Group HQ celebrating Yom Kippur in Sept 44. The mustachioed gent sitting in the last few rows is my grandfather.

 

[D.B.Moody]

This is from 2008:

 

[bracconiere]

Florence...OH MY GOD! i was just joking with myself when i thought of the search..." italy dome boy pissin in a cup statue"!!

 

[D.B.Moody]

Florence it is. But all you needed was "Italy dome" and you can get Florence. I think the statue you thought of is in Brussels. You're up @bracconiere.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Florence...OH MY GOD! i was just joking with myself when i thought of the search..." italy dome boy pissin in a cup statue"!!

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Do let us know what Amazon recommends over the next week or so.

 

[bracconiere]

Do let us know what Amazon recommends over the next week or so.

honestly i stopped using amazon when they started their $25 minimum order policy....

picked it because of the name.....

 

[pvpeacock]

Alcatraz?

 

[bracconiere]

more eastern...and a way funnier name, and it's the lake i'm challenging you to name not the building....if you can spell or even pronounce it!

 

[beermanpete]

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg?

 

[bracconiere]

not that bad! but very close, more north though....

 

[tracer bullet]

Been searching light houses in MA but no luck yet. Not many lighthouses on lakes, if that's even what that thing is. Hmm.

 

[bracconiere]

Been searching light houses in MA but no luck yet. Not many lighthouses on lakes, if that's even what that thing is. Hmm.

??? i said more north?

(i'm still learning this game, not sure what constitutes a 'good' play...i was looking for a lake, saw this name and couldn't stop laughing, thought it'd be fun..not as good as beer man's guess though!)

 

[Pkrd]

Lake Winnipesaukee?

 

[bracconiere]

right state, but it crosses borders....

 

[tracer bullet]

Lake Memphremagog is a candidate by description. That lighthouse looks to actually be an observation tower. Pointe-Merry Park in Magog.

 

[bracconiere]

Lake Memphremagog

that's it.. you're up @tracer bullet

(i think the name actualy has more M's in it though...)

 

[tracer bullet]

Hopefully not too easy.

 

[cmac62]

Looks like the east coast of US?

 

[tracer bullet]

It does, but isn't. It is in the US however.

 

[D.B.Moody]

That lighthouse looks to actually be an observation tower.

Octagonal rock observation tower

 

[beermanpete]

Enger Tower, Duluth, MN?

 

[tracer bullet]

Enger Tower, Duluth, MN?

Correct. Ever been to it or just good skills?

I'd decided to go with another observation tower... hoped the bridge in the background didn't give it away. Also hoped Lake Superior might look like an ocean.

 

[bracconiere]

Also hoped Lake Superior might look like an ocean.

had me fooled

 

[beermanpete]

Here is one that should be easy.

 

[pvpeacock]

Vegas

 

[beermanpete]

Yes, Vegas. Too easy. You're up, @pvpeacock .

 

[pvpeacock]

Here's a place that is a little less lively than Vegas.