Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[3 Dawg Night]

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg)?

 

[dirkomatic]

It is indeed Virginia Tech. The brick building is the back of Lane Hall. This picture was taken when the new cadet dorms (the limestone [Hokie Stone] buildings to either side) were being built and formations had to be done on the back side of the building.

The unit in the foreground of this photo is the Virginia Tech Regimental Band, the Highty-Tighties, of which I am an alumnus.

There's a ton more trivia I could spout about this picture, but it would probably get boring.

You're up @3 Dawg Night

 

[dirkomatic]

And @3 Dawg Night, the VMI guess was borderline offensive

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Sorry; no offense intended, @dirkomatic!

Digging deep in the photo roll for this one. It's a little more obscure, but I bet someone will come up with it.

I think someone will come up with the location pretty easily; the actual site may be a little more difficult (maybe).

 

[dirkomatic]

I know it's Cape Canaveral... Launch Complex 14?

 

[dirkomatic]

Looks like Launch Complex 34

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Dang, @dirkomatic is right on! I really expected someone to get Cape Canaveral pretty quickly, but not the Launch Complex 34 part. This picture is mine from circa 2000. The structure in the background is one of the Vehicle Assembly Buildings for final assembly of the Space Shuttle before it moved out to the launch pad. The structure in the foreground is the remnants of Launch Complex 34, the site of the Apollo 1 fire that killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. It's no longer used by NASA for active launches but stands as a memorial to the Apollo 1 crew. I had a class "field trip" to tour Kennedy Space Center in college, and this was one of the stops on the tour.

You're up (again), @dirkomatic!

 

[dirkomatic]

I stopped by Cape Canaveral when I was really young on a family vacation. That's a really cool photo and great history. It's easy to recognize as an old launch site... Just had to figure out which one.

Ok... Borrowed this one from a friend:

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Looks (probably) too old to be in the US, so let's start the bidding with somewhere in the UK.

 

[dirkomatic]

Hmm... not the UK, but I like that line of thought.

 

[dirkomatic]

This church is on an island

 

[dirkomatic]

In the Atlantic Ocean

 

[Northern_Brewer]

My immediate reaction was Scotland, so unless we're getting cute about the definition of the UK wrt Crown Dependencies and the like, I'll keep with the Celtic theme - Ireland

 

[dirkomatic]

Seriously... not the Uk

 

[dirkomatic]

Not Ireland, Scotland, Wales or England... But not far

 

[dirkomatic]

The island is technically in the Atlantic, but is in a specific part of the Atlantic with another name

 

[dirkomatic]

It's in the English Channel

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Well, that significantly narrows it down, but even after spending 20 minutes snooping around Google Maps, I got nothing.

 

[duncan.brown]

If it's not technically part of the UK, it can't be on the Isles of Scilly so I am guessing somewhere in either Guernsey or Jersey based since they are technically crown dependencies and not in the UK.

However, if I google "Churches in Jersey" from Syracuse then I get a lot of pictures of churches in Hoboken, Elizabeth, Jersey City,..

 

[3 Dawg Night]

OK, that shows my ignorance of European political divisions. Is a crown dependency not still considered part of the UK?

 

[dirkomatic]

Not crown dependent. Nothing to do with any UK related territory.

Not Guernsey or Jersey.

It's smaller than both.

You actually can see this church on Google Maps, but street view is spotty in that area.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Let's narrow this down some more. It's an island in the English Channel. It's not part of the UK (including crown dependencies) or Ireland.

Is it part of France?

 

[dirkomatic]

It is indeed part of France.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

If it isn't Les Blainvillais on Iles Chausey, then I've run out of rocks with buildings on them in the Channel. And I can't find a visual match there.

 

[dirkomatic]

It's not Les Blainvillais on Iles Chausey.

This island is technically closer to England than Iles Chausey and it is much closer to France.

 

[dirkomatic]

It's really close to mainland France. That's actually mainland France in the distance in the photo.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I'm running out of French islands. It's not St. Anne (which Google says is technically part of Guernsey), is it?

 

[dirkomatic]

No, it's not. Way too far out in the Channel.

 

[dirkomatic]

It's smaller and in a different area of France, too.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Chappelle Notre-Dame de Callot on Pennenez?

https://earth.google.com/web/@48.69...,0r?utm_source=earth7&utm_campaign=vine&hl=en
If not, then....