Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

You're not too cold with that, but not warm either.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Googled "botanic garden dome" and found that picture of the Greater Des Moines Botanic Garden. I'll say Des Moines, Iowa.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Indeed it is Des Moines, which yesterday was celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ozzie Ozbourne biting the head off a bat there, so I thought we might have something vaguely "biological" from there.

@D.B.Moody, you're up.

 

[D.B.Moody]

I was first in Des Moines in 1959 when I drove up to pick up my brother at Drake. I do not remember why I was recruited to do that. We didn't visit botanic gardens while I was there, but that was two decades before they got that place built. I do remember enjoying a few beers while there. I don't remember the brand, but I was 16 and had an age-appropriate unrefined attitude about such things.
Here's a different dome picture. This is from 1990:

 

[Andres Falconer]

I’m going out on a limb to claim that this is the old Aviodome aerospace museum in Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, that has since been renamed and relocated as Aviodrome (with an R) in Lelystad airport.

 

[D.B.Moody]

You are correct, though i think it ws just an airplane museum in 1990. You're up @Andres Falconer.

 

[Andres Falconer]

This one was a lucky shot. There seem to be more than a few airplane museums in domes, and this one no longer exists, so the initial image search didn't get me too far. Even my original hometown of Sao Paulo formerly had one in a dome (which is now a very nice auditorium):

The Pioneer Air Museum in Fairbanks, Alaska, could have also fit the bill - including the very similar geodesic dome:

Then I somehow stumbled across the Aviodrome, read a bit into it and learned that it originally was hosted inside a geodesic dome built by Buckminster Fuller. And I found an image.

 

[Andres Falconer]

At this point the mind gets things mixed up. I don’t think I’ve posted this one before. Netherlands, windmills, you know…

 

[D.B.Moody]

This one was a lucky shot.

I had a hard time verifying my picture notes, and I knew where it was. I thought the flag on the big plane might be a tell. Good work, @Andres Falconer.

 

[Andres Falconer]

I had a hard time verifying my picture notes, and I knew where i was. I thought the flagon the big plane might be a tell. Good work, @Andres Falconer.

I wasn’t really able to make out the colors on the flag!

 

[duncan.brown]

40th anniversary of Ozzie Ozbourne biting the head off a bat there

My cousin's ex-husband went to school with Ozzie! True story!

 

[duncan.brown]

Not the Netherlands, I think. Wimbledon Windmill Museum.

If you look carefully, you can see Wombles in the grass, right @Northern_Brewer?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Wimbledon Common, London, indeed. Wombles and all. Over to @duncan.brown

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Not the Netherlands, I think. Wimbledon Windmill Museum.

If you look carefully, you can see Wombles in the grass, right @Northern_Brewer?

Indeed - in fact I met one last time I went to Wimbledon Common. I can't find my photos now but it looked something like this :

[I wasn't running, the missus was!]

Shame about the Aviodrome, I got as far as seeing the cloggy flag and had recognised that it was an S-2 Tracker on the left, but it was too tired to go poking around.

 

[duncan.brown]

Sticking with windmills, here's one that I have a connection with.

 

[D.B.Moody]

So if I Google "red brick windmill UK" the first choice I get is Green's Windmill, which is apparently a restored windmill that is part of a science museum in Nottingham, UK.

 

[duncan.brown]

It is Green's Mill in Nottingham. Named after George Green, a mathematical physicist. I grew up in Nottingham and they renovated the mill and built the since center when I was a kid. The plasma ball was a big draw. I now teach Green's Theorem to my electrodynamics class.

@D.B.Moody is up.

 

[D.B.Moody]

This isn't my picture, but I like the theme and I've been in this place. Built by a different kind of genius for his own (not so scientific) reasons.

 

[beermanpete]

Solvang, CA?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Good guess, but not Solvang, I have been in there a number of times over the years. When first married, my brother and his wife lived in this area, which is named for this place. So this is reasonably near to me.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Bevo Mill, St Louis

 

[D.B.Moody]

Bevo Mill it is. Built, as I understand it, by August Busch to showcase a nice, respectable beer garden restaurant to help fight off prohibition.
You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[Andres Falconer]

In St Louis, MO, Adolphus Busch built a windmill as a beer hall. The rest seems to be history…

(Edit: not the first time my browser doesn’t seem to refresh till I post an answer and then find out it’s been named already…)

(Post-edit: in this case, it turns out I had refreshed the browser but failed to notice that the thread had just moved into a new page)

 

[D.B.Moody]

Okay, I've looked at this a bit. I think @DBhomebrew has continued the theme by posting a picture of another kind of mill, a water mill.
Those are barn type doors on that building and it goes down a hill in back. The photographer's name would indicate that this is in New England. I don't know why an old mill is yellow, but I thought you could probably Google "old yellow water mill New England" and find it. That didn't work. I also failed with some variations of that with equal lack of success.
I still think it's an old mill in New England. I hope some one can find it, but I need a nap.

 

[D.B.Moody]

There were a lot of things that didn't work, but "restored yellow mill vermont" did. That is Ben's Mill, Barnet, VT. They even made a movie about the restoration project. I gotta ask, @DBhomebrew, how did you bump into that picture?

 

[DBhomebrew]

There were a lot of things that didn't work, but "restored yellow mill vermont" did. That is Ben's Mill, Barnet, VT. They even made a movie about the restoration project. I gotta ask, @DBhomebrew, how did you bump into that picture?
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I had a theatre professor who used the movie in a handful of his courses.

 

[DBhomebrew]

The Academy Award nominated movie introduces the viewer to a disappearing American way of life. Ben and his mill are of another time. During the movie Ben is a blacksmith, cooper, and whatever you call someone who keeps a hundred year old machine working.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Well, I've got to keep this theme going. These aren't my pictures, but I have been there and have a connection to the building. About 200 years ago an ancestor of mine worked in the pictured building. The bridge may be a clue

 

[Northern_Brewer]

So if I Google "red brick windmill UK" the first choice I get is Green's Windmill

Just as a gentle suggestion, if it falls that quickly to a Google word search, maybe don't post it within 30 minutes, give it a bit more time to stew? Particularly if you've been "winning" a lot here lately? With all due respect, I'd much rather see some newbies joining in, who may be able to contribute photos from different experiences and to stop this board getting too cliquey. And also the fun of this game is not in the "winning" but in the process, it's about either recognising somewhere from a trip long ago, or about working out that the cars drive on the left or that's the logo of a French bank or whatever.