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| FOURTH SESSION |
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Saint Petersburg |
Lensing the image gives many Saint Petersburg results, but no exact ones.
Observations:
There is long and narrow canal. The Neva river is too wide.
Obvious second candidate: Fontanka.
The building on the other side turns off at a around 160 degree angle.
Using satellite view to find spots along Fontanka where there are three car lanes, we can brute-force the remaining cases.
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Skansen, Stockholm |
This is a classic Sami dwelling, "kåta".
The tourist nature leaves the obvious option of Skansen, Stockholm, a Swedish outdoor culture exhibition.
This contemporary image has matching houses in the background.
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| FIFTH SESSION |
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Syracuse |
This is difficult.
Failed attempts:
Improvise (by hand drawing) the logo, then Lens it.
Lens the logo of the vespa.
Successful approach:
Google image search for "osteria sicilia vespa" (langugage is important) and scroll very many pages until finding a match.
After this it is easy: solution.
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| SIXTH SESSION |
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Los Angeles |
Use intuition for guitarists: since he is very good at guitar technique, he must be based in Texas or California.
Searching "california skyscrapers" quickly reveals that the building on the right is the tallest building in LA, from
which the rest can be inferred easily.
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??? |
Still unsolved. Progress:
Caption in Swedish: "Pressbyrån store with telephone(?) service, 1960's."
Pressbyrån was roughly as widespread in the 60's as it is now.
This is likely the only Pressbyrå in the vicinity. Since there is no train station visible, the town probably doesn't
have one.
There is a larch tree to the right.
The asphalt is part of a parking lot, probably "behind" the gas station.
The tall doors probably belong to a car wash.
The sign used to be extant in all of Sweden (according to Wikipedia).
If we knew the date from the news headlines, we might check snow coverage/conditions of that date.
The hill in the background makes the place much less generic.
Contemporary Pressbyrån stores tend to be part of a bigger building. The stand-alone character is special.
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