Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[passedpawn]

Only because @Northern_Brewer told us what to look for. The Google I answered with was not what I did two days ago. I first Googled "London pub beer garden" and that actually got me to the picture you posted. When I clicked on that image, It headed a list of the 15 best pubs with beer gardens in London, so I knew the answer was the Duke of York. I figured someone would answer, but no one had by this afternoon so just for fun I Googled just what was suggested: "London gastro pub", though I didn't mean to make gastropub two words. That did not verify what the beer garden looks like, but I just had to answer with it.

This is from 1991.
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Plymouth (Notch), Vermont. Birthplace of Calvin Coolidge.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Plymouth Notch it is. I'm glad you weren't silent on this.
You're up @passedpawn.

 

[passedpawn]

Plymouth (Notch), Vermont. Birthplace of Calvin Coolidge.

The image actually has a sign that says Plymouth Vt, so...

 

[passedpawn]

From recent travels. My pic.

 

[tracer bullet]

Tennessee, Nashville, a big park not too far from downtown. Been there!

Looked up the name, it's the Parthenon. May as well have my picture too:

 

[passedpawn]

Tennessee, Nashville, a big park not too far from downtown. Been there!

Looked up the name, it's the Parthenon.

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Correct, in the back of Centennial Park. Full size replica. There is even the 42' statue of Athena inside if you want to pay the $10 to see it. You're up!

 

[tracer bullet]

Funny, mine has a bench that I don't see in yours. Mine was 2008. Ugh, doesn't feel like 15 years ago!

For the next puzzle, this not my picture:

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Ward Charcoal Ovens park, Ely, Nevada.

 

[tracer bullet]

Ward Charcoal Ovens park, Ely, Nevada.

That was quick! You are up.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Here's my next challenge...

 

[cmac62]

The chain link fence makes me think it is not North America and that leads me to the middle east, maybe Saudi Arabia?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

The chain link fence makes me think it is not North America and that leads me to the middle east, maybe Saudi Arabia?

Correct on the first point, incorrect on the second.

 

[govner1]

Not Middle East or not Saudi?

 

[tracer bullet]

Hmm, other large deserts... Gobi in Asia?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Not Middle East or not Saudi?

Not Middle East.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Hmm, other large deserts... Gobi in Asia?

Colder than cmac62 was.

 

[tracer bullet]

Northern Africa, Sahara?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Northern Africa, Sahara?

Right continent, wrong half.

 

[D.B.Moody]

I was in New Hampshire before The Old Man In The Mountain collapsed in 2003 and was there again shortly after it did. I was reminded of this while looking at that balanced boulder. So I wound up Googling "collapsed balanced boulder South Africa" after @bruce_the_loon's last clue. Here's what I got some distance down from the top

Googling "Mukurob" confirmed that this WAS once (collapsed in 1988) a balanced boulder called Mukurob (The Finger of God) in what is now Namibia but was then part of South Africa. To an old British Empire stamp collector like me, this was the Old German East Africa that became Southwest Africa, part of the Union of South Africa.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I was in New Hampshire before The Old Man In The Mountain collapsed in 2003 and was there again shortly after it did. I was reminded of this while looking at that balanced boulder. So I wound up Googling "collapsed balanced boulder South Africa" after @bruce_the_loon's last clue. Here's what I got some distance down from the top
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Googling "Mukurob" confirmed that this WAS once (collapsed in 1988) a balanced boulder called Mukurob (The Finger of God) in what is now Namibia but was then part of South Africa. To an old British Empire stamp collector like me, this was the Old German East Africa that became Southwest Africa, part of the Union of South Africa.

DB has it right. I'd originally confused the timeline of the Old Man in the Mountain with Mukurob and was surprised it was so far back. I remember it making all the newspapers in South Africa as it was a spectacular natural monument.

You're up DB.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Close to that 1988 date, and it's a rock. This picture is from 1989. I think the rock's still there.

 

[DBhomebrew]

That's the Boston Athenaeum viewed from the Granary Bur[ying] Grounds.

The 'rock', both of them [and more, many much more notable], are still there. At least as of December 2019.

 

[D.B.Moody]

That's the Boston Athenaeum viewed from the Granary Bur[ying] Grounds.

The 'rock', both of them [and more, many much more notable], are still there. At least as of December 2019.

More notable, but did they have a beer named for them? You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Another rock.

 

[tracer bullet]

Looks Appalachian, but higher up. Vermont?

 

[DBhomebrew]

You're in the correct corner of the world. Not Vermont.

 

[D.B.Moody]

The Atlas Obscura article was good. We've been to Gloster, MA, but we didn't go to Dogtown.

 

[DBhomebrew]

That's it, @D.B.Moody

Somewhere I've got a bunch of photos of my dog atop each of the stones. Loyalty, intelligence, etc. If you had known him, 'Courage' is particularly ironic.

A composite.

It's a beautiful place to stroll nowadays, but it hasn't always been so.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Another rock. This was from 2014:

 

[DBhomebrew]

I'd knock your spelling of Gloucester, but you got the pronunciation right! Head west on 90 and you can grab lunch in Woostah!