Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[3 Dawg Night]

@3 Dawg Night got it, you're up!

Once you mentioned that there were two spectacular buildings in the picture, I noticed the Taj Mahal in the background!

Here's a picture that I took when I visited my cousin about a year ago. You've likely all seen this building before.

 

[duncan.brown]

Bullocks Wilshire building on Wilshire Blvd in LA.

I know it because I lived in LA for three years, but I'm curious why you think we've all seen it?

Plus, the light in that picture looks distinctly LA. I'm guessing the picture was taken early evening?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

@duncan.brown is right on! Yes, that picture was taken in the early evening, on the way to supper. My cousin graduated from Southwestern Law School, which now owns the building. The building was used for the exterior shots of the apartment building in the final scene in "Ghostbusters." In addition, Aerosmith filmed their "Love in an Elevator" video in the lobby (and elevators).

 

[duncan.brown]

The building was used for the exterior shots of the apartment building in the final scene in "Ghostbusters."

Ah that's right! I never made that connection for some reason!

I was also today days old before I finally clicked that it's "Wilshire Blvd" and not "Wiltshire Blvd," despite having lived in LA. My brain has been autocorrecting it to the name of the English county all this time...

Here's the next one. Ignore my daughter on the right of the picture, but the rest of the foreground is also a clue.

 

[govner1]

Chicago

 

[duncan.brown]

Yep, we’re in a Chicago Water Taxi, or as my kid calls them “YELLOW BOAT!”

You’re up @govner1

 

[Pkrd]

I was thinking Boston Duckboat

 

[govner1]

I can't remember if I've used this before so here you go-

 

[smcinco]

Strasbourg?

 

[govner1]

Wrong country but general area

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Hmm - my gut reaction was Alsace but on closer examination it's a slightly different kind of cutesy. So it must be across the Rhine, in the Black Forest/Baden-Württemberg somewhere.

 

[govner1]

You’re in the correct country & general area

 

[govner1]

Time for a hint?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Well I seem to have been closest, and I can't get closer than the general region, I've only driven through it a few times but never really lingered.

 

[govner1]

It's just off the B19 on the Kocher River

 

[Persevalli]

Rosengarten / Swäbische Hall?

 

[govner1]

Swabische Hall it is-
@Persevalli you’re up!

 

[Persevalli]

Thanks Govner1.

 

[duncan.brown]

East Gate Clock in Chester, Cheshire, I believe. Second most photographed clock in the UK (after the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster)

 

[Persevalli]

Right, Chester / Cheshire is correct!
@duncan.brown , you're up.

 

[duncan.brown]

This is probably an easy one:

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Hohum, always my localish ones happen when I'm not around. But I have drunk Eastgate, the 2003 Champion Beer of Cheshire, a Cascade best bitter originally brewed for the centenary of the clock.

 

[govner1]

Deadwood

 

[duncan.brown]

Deadwood, SD it is. @govner1 you're up!

 

[govner1]

Sticking with my previous theme-

 

[govner1]

Obviously a hint is needed- famous for a Rauchbier

 

[D.B.Moody]

Bamberg

 

[govner1]

@ d.b. Moody you’re up

 

[D.B.Moody]

 

[Pkrd]

Turin