FOUSESQUAWK: Let's Play, "Name That Street"

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Let's Play, "Name That Street"

One of my co-respondents sent me this picture today. Tell me if you can identify this street.

Note: the street signs are not a sufficient answer.

18 comments:

Miggie said...: Too tough a question. It doesn't look like a famous street.

It would be great if someone could just name the city. My guess is Brussels. The streets are clean and the architecture looks about right.
.; May 15, 2011 at 11:57 PM
Gary Fouse said...: Miggie,

Incorrect.; May 16, 2011 at 9:09 AM
Miggie said...: It's a famous street that any reasonably well informed person should be able to recognize?
.; May 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Gary Fouse said...: Miggie,

No.; May 16, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Siarlys Jenkins said...: I would guess it runs along one side of the Berlin Wall.

No, wait a minute, they tore that down, didn't they?; May 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM
Findalis said...: Looks like Germany, but that would be too easy, right.

Disney world?; May 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Squid said...: I know where this is! It is the back lot of Universal Studios.

Squid; May 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Gary Fouse said...: It is in Germany. Everybody else is wrong although Siarlys has raised a clue, but it is not Berlin.; May 16, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Miggie said...: Erlanger?
.; May 16, 2011 at 9:28 PM
Gary Fouse said...: No, it's not Erlangen.; May 17, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Miggie said...: Nuremberg ?
.; May 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Gary Fouse said...: Miggie,

Nuremberg is correct, but you have to ID the street, not by name as the streetsigns are there. What can you tell me about the street?; May 17, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Miggie said...: Of course! I just didn't recognize it from this angle.
It is the oldest brothel street in Germany! That's Frauentomauer 76, open 24 hours a day/365 days a year. Four floors of girls and someone to suit any preference.

I'm, ah, familiar with it.
.; May 17, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Gary Fouse said...: Miggie,

You win the prize. Known to GIs as "The Wall", it is a legend to anyone who served in the Nuremberg area. I didn't know it was the oldest. You seem to be much more familiar with it than I. I didn't know you had been to Nuremberg.; May 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM
Findalis said...: I'm going to get my face slapped for this:

@Miggie

As a client or worker?

OK just a joke! Did you work as an MP?; May 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Miggie said...: So what's the prize? It should be commensurate with the circumstances and the degree of difficulty.

I didn't actually stay in Nurenberg. I kinda passed through and I didn't think it was long enough to say I'd been there. Even so, certain things persist even though you thought you forgotten. The oldest such street in Germany and open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year are the kind of stats that are memorable.
.; May 17, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Siarlys Jenkins said...: And all this time, I thought it was the remnants of a concentration camp looming on the left. Do your wives know about this? Suddenly the recent posts about Gov. Katzenjammer are reminding me of truisms about glass houses and throwing stones.; May 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Gary Fouse said...: Siarlys,

The place was a legend among GIs in the Nuremberg area. MPs had to patrol it because it was off limits.

Just because one has heard of Mt Everest doesn't mean he has climbed it.; May 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM