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:

  1. 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.
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  2. It's a famous street that any reasonably well informed person should be able to recognize?
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  3. I would guess it runs along one side of the Berlin Wall.

    No, wait a minute, they tore that down, didn't they?

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  4. Looks like Germany, but that would be too easy, right.

    Disney world?

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  5. I know where this is! It is the back lot of Universal Studios.

    Squid

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  6. It is in Germany. Everybody else is wrong although Siarlys has raised a clue, but it is not Berlin.

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  7. 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?

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  8. 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.
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  9. 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.

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  10. 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?

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  11. 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.
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  12. 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.

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  13. 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.

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