Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Well, the "Street View" narrows the search down to nine locations.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&z=...m=1&layer=c

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Aug 16 2007, 05:23 PM) [snapback]497296[/snapback]</div>

Youre getting warm.This might be one of the sleepers.

 

Cryogenics is related.

 

Cloning is related.The elevator here may have inspired a sexual device.

 

It overlooks a freeway and is one of the most widely known structures in the state.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 16 2007, 07:22 PM) [snapback]497409[/snapback]</div>

A movie was made here.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 16 2007, 05:22 PM) [snapback]497409[/snapback]</div>

Most of your clues seem to allude to Woody Allen's "Sleeper" but I can't make enough connections to pinpoint the monument (or whatever it is - the overexposure kills the detail so it's hard to make out just precisely what sort of structure we're looking at). It's not something meant to be visited (only access being dirt tracks) - looks kinda like a ten commandments monument but what would that have to do with cryogenics and an orgasmatron (unless there're rules in the ten that we're all overlooking between the lines).

It ain't the Junipero Serra monument overlooking I-280 in San Mateo, which is the only freeway overlooking monument I'm familiar with in Northern CA. But this may not be in CA (although the low scrub oak on rolling gold grass hillsides is a CA trademark).

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 16 2007, 08:15 PM) [snapback]497449[/snapback]</div>

Youre almost there.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 16 2007, 06:10 PM) [snapback]497445[/snapback]</div>

That did it. It IS "Sleeper", the scenes of the "mushroom" house being filmed in Genesee Park, Colorado
Never would have got it without that basketload of clues!

<strike>Stand by for a new pic </strike> ---- scratch that - I have to go. Stage is open to whomever wants it next.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 16 2007, 08:25 PM) [snapback]497457[/snapback]</div>

Actually its called "Sculptured House" What looked like a dirt path must be tile .
http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/09/0909how.html

 

Okay, since it's been over 12 hours, here you go.

Clues:
It's a small town
It's two most easily recognized landmarks never existed
This parable from the King James Bible is somewhat relevant:
"And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found"
Senator Joseph McCarthy is involved
(Whew....)
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Aug 17 2007, 09:40 AM) [snapback]497883[/snapback]</div>

Such a preponderance of clues, but I'm still lost! It's way too early for more clues, though. Do landmarks that never existed mean that this town owes its fame to the cinema, sort of like the Bodega Bay schoolhouse in "The Birds" that does exist, but NOT in the town depicted? No - don't answer yet - it's too early.

MB

 

Clues:
It is often foggy in this small town.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Aug 17 2007, 01:57 PM) [snapback]498021[/snapback]</div>

Another movie location (which accounts for the fictional landmarks), Ferndale, CA

The movie, a 2001 Jim Carrey feature called "The Majestic" is one I never saw nor even remember any press about, but it was shot here (and in other places). This time it was the IMDB and that quote about Hoover that nailed it.

I guess the "Majestic" theater is one of the phantom landmarks - what's the other one?

Meanwhile, fields's open again - I'm all landmarked out at present ---

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 17 2007, 02:46 PM) [snapback]498043[/snapback]</div>

Ding ding ding....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 17 2007, 02:46 PM) [snapback]498043[/snapback]</div>

The other one is Mabel's diner, also created for the movie. A good site showing the set building is here.

Ferndale, by the way, is a really cool little town. I recommend the Victorian Inn as a great place to stay.

I've taken too many freebies - sombody else's turn.

 

OK heres an easy one[attachmentid=10715]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 17 2007, 08:17 PM) [snapback]498096[/snapback]</div>

Let's see if I can do this...

It's the Oklahoma City National Memorial
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=19&om=1

I do not know if I did this part right, but I'll now attempt to find a location and post a new pic. Uhh... wish me luck!

 

ok, here it is; I don't think I remember seeing this one:

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(You me and da Pri @ Aug 17 2007, 09:12 PM) [snapback]498130[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=&a...p;z=18&om=1
Ankor Wat Cambodia

What happened here ?(where the "a" is ,ignore the "b")
A very significant occurrence in American history.[attachmentid=10721]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 17 2007, 10:30 PM) [snapback]498137[/snapback]</div>

Well, the site is Cuba.

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF...p;z=10&om=1

I am not sure what the event is at the moment. This appears to be in the general vicinity where Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. was shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I haven't found the exact coordinates yet. I'll research some more and see if I can find out why "a" is important.