Israel Keyes be like "I can see my house from here."

@ Mindfulness: :thumb:

Is he the guy who sang Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On ? It would be appropriate for Anchorage, seen here in harder times (=1964):-

Well, at least he was an ICP fan. That's a feather in his cap right there I'll tell you hwhat.

That city looks amazing. But I bet its extremely cold :(

Interesting find Psy-Fi, surprisingly its in northern California also...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...3NTg@._V1_.jpg

surprisingly* :o:


https://newengland.com/wp-content/up...wn-780x520.jpg

https://www.bonneystaffing.com/wp-co...e-1_photo1.jpg



Bangor looks nice :cool:

I know what you meant, just found it funny. I supersize with you.

OH just found his retirement spot.

Where? Bangor? You'll risk being kicked out of places that King decides to visit around the area at any given time. I was there on a job with coworkers, and it happened to us right in the middle of my bucket of mussels during lunch at a seafood place. We had to pay our bill, grab our food and go because he wanted to dine in peace.

Wait where the **** did Old Hang Town or where ever go? It was supposed to be a joke about his old, saggy balls god damn it.

Mod Ninja's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sX7mjpS-o

Odessa, Texas

Home of the six time state champs Permian Panthers that the book that inspired the movie and TV Series Friday Night Lights was written about. Plus, oil fields and a fake Stonehenge.

:) ^ looks like a cool place

Looks like hell.

Church

Yeah now that I look at it again, Connecticut much better :o: So is Iowa and Illinois..... plus I bet it gets hot asf in Texas, pass on that.

omg

they start two-a-days in mid summer here

and they play the jubilee games or classic kick offs as early as ****ing August

It’s like 95 degrees with 90 plus humidity and they’re out there in full pads

FOR NOTHING

seriously ****ing nothing - one of the top 20 most successful Florida high school football programs is like 15-20 minutes through residential neighborhoods from where I am right now and in their ENTIRE HISTORY the have three alumni who made the NFL

you’re talking hundreds if not thousands of blown knees and head injuries for ****ing nothing

I know it’s blasphemy but tackle football before college is bull****

That’s why in LA black leaders have started 7 on 7 flag leagues but the high schools go bonkers when college recruiters deal with them

Also around here “the midgets” and city league tackle is absurd. Kids blowing out their knees before high school even. And they think it’s blasphemy to call leading with the helmet penalties so they can’t even adjust to college rules.

Plus, pay college players for **** sake. It’s a goddamn plantation. A scholarship?

They’re coming in with 750 SAT scores. They can’t even read!

:o:

I hear ya.

Before corona I loved high school football and I’ve been to ****loads of games even teams I had no affiliation with so it’s really just sour covid grapes.

It’s really deeply upsetting to me that they’re playing high school football with fans in attendance right now. As I’ve expressed.

Football could have been a unified voice about putting our community health first.

To me, it’s really very disappointing.

Without covid I’d love to see some of those huge Texas high school football rivalries first hand. It’s a great culture that has truly failed us imo

That's strange! As is the town's name, given that the original city overlooked the sea. Still, I guess there's no rule about that: in Europe, York and Orleans are both inland cities. Boston correlates better as the less famous UK town is also a port like it's namesake.

Is it ok to slap the same name on a completely different place?
* googles Lake Everest, The Amazon Desert*

Welcome to Paris!

...Illinois!

Birth place of Alfalfa and his brother Harold from "Our Gang".

https://media3.giphy.com/media/26BoD...NH9e/giphy.gif

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Illinois

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That building looks awesome^ also looks like the Davenport, Iowa city hall building...
https://www.iowahauntedhouses.com/re...-hall_2444.jpg

This was the first thing I thought of after seeing "Odessa"...

Oddly enough, I just watched this video about "Alfalfa" last weekend...

It's Richardsonian Romanesque and Romanesque Revival styles of architecture, so they're very similar.

Oooh... gonna hafta check that one out. Thanks!

That's interesting, though gotta say that the Paris building looks way better than the Iowa one to me:
Paris: balanced, symmetric, with windows that match the age of the building style
Iowa: a clumsy cut and paste of different elements; one pyramid turret roof, one conical, both squeezed uncomfortably against the pitched roof behind. The main facade looks a mess to me: there's no consistant rhythm to the horizontal spacing of the windows; they and the smooth horizontal bands above them look like they come from a different era from the "historical" style attempted elsewhere.

The offset tower and the archways, although they tried to line the one on the right up with the tower, break the flow of the Iowa building up quite a bit. The haphazard spacing of the windows trying to work with the archways doesn't help it either.

With the Paris building, you could slice it down the middle, erase one side, and then mirror the remaining side and it'd be exactly what we see now.

Yep, you're right, Plankton.
What surprised me (thanx wiki) is that the Iowa building dates from 1895: I thought it was a much more modern pastiche. They apparently got a local architect to design it, which is in itself a good idea, but imo he wasn't really up to the job.

I did see dates and names of archy's, but I was more interested in the material used, which was Sandstone for both, which Ohio Berea being listed for the Iowa building. I was curious if it was limestone from around here like quite a few buildings.

Ross appears to have a few other notable works as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W...Iowa_architect)

Fu ck your wiki rabbit holes... the building is amazing... https://boxden.com/smilies/Vcmk9dW.png

I understand the windows a little off and not as nice as the Paris building but it's still nice... https://boxden.com/smilies/v9jPCe4.png

Of course, Mindfulness! It's only my opinion. Two things I like about the building: (i) the colour of the stone and (ii) the central tower with the clocks on it.

I would hate to put you off from posting more "small city" stuff as I really enjoy this thread.

:o: