The road sign city name photo game

[vdeane]

Attleboro->Oxford

[oscar]

Oxford => Dettah (NT):

[1995hoo]

As far as I can tell, the rules don't prohibit re-using a sign for a different city.

Dettah ---> Halifax. You can pick either Halifax, too (both the same city, of course).

[vdeane]

Anyone have pictures of China?  According to Weather Underground, that's where the VAST majority of cities starting with X are.

[oscar]

As far as I can tell, the rules don't prohibit re-using a sign for a different city.

Dettah ---> Halifax. You can pick either Halifax, too (both the same city, of course).

IMO. so long as we can find a photo for Xenia OH that hasn't been used, or another community name beginning with "X", to continue the chain. The X ending letter is more of an issue than the recycled photo.

Especially with Mapmikey's threat to inflict Appomattox on us (and there are probably other _____x names in his inventory too), it would be good to find alternatives to Xenia. The Wikipedia article on Xenia (which I looked at for the F5 tornado that pretty much trashed the city in 1974) says that Xenia is the largest U.S. place with a name beginning with "X", suggesting there are others. "Xavier" might be a good place to start.

[hotdogPi]

Xalapa is the town name. It's in Mexico. There are no other town names on this sign; you have to begin the next one with A. (For those curious, the number being blocked by the pole in the phone number is a 2.)

[bassoon1986]

If no one has an 'X' city, could we make an exception to post a city with 'X' somewhere in the name? Like Phoenix or Alexandria?

[jmd41280]

Xalapa -> Arcadia (PA)


US 219 @ PA Route 580 - Cherry Tree, PA by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[oscar]

Arcadia => Arecibo (PR). on my twice-recycled photo:

Xalapa is the town name. It's in Mexico.

Muchas gracias, 1.

We're also having trouble getting city names ending in "B" or "V" to put those letters into play. Alas, the logical places to look for such names, the signs are probably in Cyrillic. I don't think a name ending in "C" has been posted, even though they are fairly abundant on this side of the pond (lots of _____-Lac towns and a few Ste-Jean-d'Arcs in Quebec, even some in the U.S.).

[1995hoo]

I feel that if a sign is in Cyrillic characters, the person posting it should offer the transliteration and we then proceed with that.

BTW, regarding "X," there's a town in Mozambique named Xai-Xai, though I doubt anyone has a photo.

[Dougtone]

Arecibo => Otis

[Ian]

Otis => Saco

[jmd41280]

Saco -> Oak Grove (PA)


US 30 @ PA Route 711 - Ligonier, PA by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[Mapmikey]

Oak Grove -> Elevon


SR 631-635 in Essex County

[Scott5114]

ELEVON → NEWKIRK


The county seat of Kay County, and it ends in K, too!

We're also having trouble getting city names ending in "B" or "V" to put those letters into play. Alas, the logical places to look for such names, the signs are probably in Cyrillic. I don't think a name ending in "C" has been posted, even though they are fairly abundant on this side of the pond (lots of _____-Lac towns and a few Ste-Jean-d'Arcs in Quebec, even some in the U.S.).

V is trickier, but there's always De Kalb for B. Or Zagreb, maybe. The nice thing about the US is there's plenty of places named after places in other countries, so you get more linguistic diversity in toponyms. Hell, we had an Aleppo posted upthread.

For C, there's also Bois d'Arc, MO, but that pre-supposes a B being posted and someone with a photo of it posting it before someone else does something less uncommon like Boston or whatever.

[7/8]

Newkirk to Keene (ON Hwy 7)

[Scott5114]

KEENE → ENID

[MNHighwayMan]

Enid → Davenport

[paulthemapguy]

Davenport >> Tomah (Wis)

Let's get something starting with H...probably not a common letter to find at the end of a town


WI-I-94-021 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[hotdogPi]

Statistics:

A: 29 end in A, 24 begin with A
B: 0
C: 1
D: 13, plus 1 as starting letter for invoking the A-rule
E: 32
F: 1
G: 7, plus 2 as starting letter for invoking the A-rule
H: 3, not counting most recent picture
I: 4
J
: 0
K: 9
L: 4
M: 6

N: 30
O: 22, plus 1 as starting letter for invoking the A-rule

P: 1, plus 1 as starting letter for starting the game
Q: 1

R: 4, plus 1 as starting letter for invoking the A-rule
S: 14

T: 15

U: 2

V: 0

W
: 0
X: 3

Y: 13

Z: 1
----
A to A: 24
A to non-A: 5
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Non-picture posts: 29, including this post

We need to get these into the game: B, J, V, W
We need more of these: C, F, H, L, P, Q, R, U, Z
Neutral: A, D, G, I, M, S, T
We need fewer of these: E, K, N, O, X, Y

[oscar]

Tomah => Honolulu:

[PHLBOS]

Honolulu => Utica (NY)

[Mapmikey]

Utica -> Achsah


SR 614 Madison County

[oscar]

Achsah -> Heart's Content (NL):

(NOTE: I subbed in "Heart's Content" for "Heart's Desire" to avoid overloading the Es)

[PHLBOS]

Heart's Content => Tampa (FL)



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