Google Street View Images of Familiar Places

[roadman65]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.805315,-73.965433&spn=0.006091,0.015278&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=7.213306,15.644531&oq=new+yo&t=h&hnear=New+York&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.805362,-73.965547&panoid=Xhkaz-pUUo2L-6xUy2q87A&cbp=12,45,,0,0

Here is a GSV image taken in NYC on Broadway at 112th Street.  It features a place that may not be famous for its food, but its location is.  Does anyone here remember what this restaurant was used for? 

Feel free anyone to use this thread for trivia or to post photos of unusual famous places not only to guess, but to show that you have or something of the sort.

[AsphaltPlanet]

Come on, that's way too easy.  This is the restaurant from Seinfeld.

[kj3400]

That's the restaurant from Seinfield, isn't it?

[txstateends]

And it was also the inspiration for Suzanne Vega's song "Tom's Diner".

[MDOTFanFB]

That is definitely the Seinfeld restaurant. Anyways, here's my contribution: https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=42.334533,-83.048851&spn=0.012801,0.01929&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.334492,-83.052983&panoid=JJYSK888z2UkDd8NFQazbQ&cbp=12,292.31,,0,-10.75

A June 2011 image of a former movie theater in downtown Detroit on Bagley Street. It's now a parking garage which was once used as a filming location for a movie based upon a local rapper. Do you know what that movie is?

[Brandon]

That wouldn't be "8 Mile", now, would it?

[english si]

This won't be hard to work out https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.531854,-0.177004&spn=0.005893,0.016512&t=m&layer=c&cbll=51.531912,-0.177202&panoid=shSZDsaQkSj3ZPoRY8CGEg&cbp=12,319.1,,0,13.98&z=17

[allniter89]

That is the crosswalk on the album cover of Abbey Road.

[Duke87]

Another quasi-famous NYC restaurant:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.767304,-73.898871&spn=0.001036,0.002642&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.767429,-73.8989&panoid=2nYDxahkP_wEajfSHl5XEQ&cbp=12,280.93,,0,-3.97

Name the movie that appeared in!

(by the way, the service there sucks and it's overpriced)

[english si]

That is the crosswalk on the album cover of Abbey Road.

Actually, it's not, but I'll give it to you.

It is a newer crossing outside Abbey Road studios that gets mistaken for the original one that doesn't exist anymore.

[txstateends]

Another quasi-famous NYC restaurant:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=40.767304,-73.898871&spn=0.001036,0.002642&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.767429,-73.8989&panoid=2nYDxahkP_wEajfSHl5XEQ&cbp=12,280.93,,0,-3.97

Name the movie that appeared in!

I didn't know offhand, but one of the linked Panoramio pix gave it away.

(by the way, the service there sucks and it's overpriced)

Why am I not surprised?

Meanwhile, I'll contribute this: http://goo.gl/maps/4Tk0d

Yes, everyone in the last 35 years knows what it is by now, but one reason I add it is that TxDOT is due (it's on the online letting/project list but I've forgotten when it is supposed to start) to widen the farm-to-market road it's on.  If you spin the pic around, you'll see that utilities on the west side of the road are being relocated in advance of the widening.  It will look strange out there with a widened, urban-looking street instead of the narrow farm-to-market road that we and the world have come to know.

[Brandon]

Meanwhile, I'll contribute this: http://goo.gl/maps/4Tk0d

Yes, everyone in the last 35 years knows what it is by now, but one reason I add it is that TxDOT is due (it's on the online letting/project list but I've forgotten when it is supposed to start) to widen the farm-to-market road it's on.  If you spin the pic around, you'll see that utilities on the west side of the road are being relocated in advance of the widening.  It will look strange out there with a widened, urban-looking street instead of the narrow farm-to-market road that we and the world have come to know.

Southfork Ranch?

[txstateends]

Meanwhile, I'll contribute this: http://goo.gl/maps/4Tk0d

Yes, everyone in the last 35 years knows what it is by now, but one reason I add it is that TxDOT is due (it's on the online letting/project list but I've forgotten when it is supposed to start) to widen the farm-to-market road it's on.  If you spin the pic around, you'll see that utilities on the west side of the road are being relocated in advance of the widening.  It will look strange out there with a widened, urban-looking street instead of the narrow farm-to-market road that we and the world have come to know.

Southfork Ranch?

>dingdingding!!<
(Even though it looks much smaller in person than on TV)

[Brandon]

Meanwhile, I'll contribute this: http://goo.gl/maps/4Tk0d

Yes, everyone in the last 35 years knows what it is by now, but one reason I add it is that TxDOT is due (it's on the online letting/project list but I've forgotten when it is supposed to start) to widen the farm-to-market road it's on.  If you spin the pic around, you'll see that utilities on the west side of the road are being relocated in advance of the widening.  It will look strange out there with a widened, urban-looking street instead of the narrow farm-to-market road that we and the world have come to know.

Southfork Ranch?

>dingdingding!!<
(Even though it looks much smaller in person than on TV)

That requires this:

[NE2]

holy crap https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.779499,-96.808573&spn=0.006937,0.014173&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=32.779427,-96.808245&panoid=RzfJ6Kach_5s8j0HAXSulQ&cbp=12,228.28,,0,-4.4

[Brandon]

holy crap https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.779499,-96.808573&spn=0.006937,0.014173&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=32.779427,-96.808245&panoid=RzfJ6Kach_5s8j0HAXSulQ&cbp=12,228.28,,0,-4.4

Thanks, Lee Harvey, nice sign gantry find.  One must wonder how old the sign bridge is and if it was there in 1963, albeit with slightly different signs.

[agentsteel53]

unless I'm not looking in the right place... I don't see that gantry in the Zapruder film.  the signs which go by are side-of-the-road signs like this one:



check out the old-style street blade for Houston St. about half a block back.

http://goo.gl/maps/vH0uQ

[Brandon]

unless I'm not looking in the right place... I don't see that gantry in the Zapruder film.  the signs which go by are side-of-the-road signs like this one:



check out the old-style street blade for Houston St. about half a block back.

http://goo.gl/maps/vH0uQ

It looks like the {30} {35E} sign in the background on the link is where the "STEMMONS FREEWAY - KEEP RIGHT" sign was in 1963.

[empirestate]

Little more obscure:
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=47.222894,-120.993273&spn=0.000762,0.001737&cbp=12,202.07,,0,-3.27&layer=c&panoid=zo1HpwfQDy4-lq5z8WFm8g&cbll=47.222894,-120.993273&dg=opt&t=h&z=20

A different view down the street might make it more obvious, but StreetView isn't available on that street.

[Brandon]

Little more obscure:
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=47.222894,-120.993273&spn=0.000762,0.001737&cbp=12,202.07,,0,-3.27&layer=c&panoid=zo1HpwfQDy4-lq5z8WFm8g&cbll=47.222894,-120.993273&dg=opt&t=h&z=20

A different view down the street might make it more obvious, but StreetView isn't available on that street.

This:

[Brandon]

Here's one for you to guess.  It might be easy if you know.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=41.721122,-87.543397&spn=0.012252,0.01929&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.722834,-87.544194&panoid=sdvPbL1By2Ci75pcO1a4qw&cbp=12,95.11,,0,5.01

[txstateends]

check out the old-style street blade for Houston St. about half a block back.

http://goo.gl/maps/vH0uQ

IINM, most of those retro street signs are gone now.  Most of those were white-on-black and were only in the West End area, the adjacent historic district that originally consisted of warehouses and factories.  Occasionally you can make out some side-mounted retro sign blades that haven't been changed out yet; I've seen them in white-on-black and white-on-green.  The downtown street blades within the central/downtown freeway loop are largely white-on-blue (even though the rest of Dallas uses white-on-green).

[Compulov]

How about these two (among many others): http://goo.gl/HCPVXe and http://goo.gl/bjj2H0

(okay, so not so unusual, but it was to me when I saw it on screen)

[Duke87]

I didn't know offhand, but one of the linked Panoramio pix gave it away.

Eh, which one? The billboard in the background is unrelated. This diner appeared in the movie Goodfellas.

Yes, everyone in the last 35 years knows what it is by now

This is the first I've ever heard of it or the TV show it appeared in.

Little more obscure:

Meanwhile, for this, Northern Exposure immediately came to mind despite me having never actually watched the show. I remember my mother really liked it, though, and I definitely saw the opening a few times. But then I'd get kicked out of the room and told not to bother her while she was watching it.

[txstateends]

I didn't know offhand, but one of the linked Panoramio pix gave it away.

Eh, which one? The billboard in the background is unrelated. This diner appeared in the movie Goodfellas.

There are 4 photos that come up in the top left corner when you click the "photos" link in the upper right corner; of the 4, the one in the lower right link when clicked, shows "Airline Diner, Astoria Blvd., Queens, NY (The Goodfellas Diner)" as a link at the top of the screen after the picture comes up.  That's what tipped me off.

Yes, everyone in the last 35 years knows what it is by now

This is the first I've ever heard of it or the TV show it appeared in.

My apologies, I guess it has been longer than I realized since the original Dallas series had its finale.  Harder to realize there are some, like yourself, that have come along and matured since then, as well.  It was a phenomenon in its day--I remember well looking at every episode for familiar around-Dallas locations used for exteriors.  All the original seasons (and the 1st season of the returned version) are on DVD, plus numerous samples are on YouTube.  Anyway, sorry again Duke87, for the broad assumption.