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*Edit* it’s Plattsburgh NY in 1987
May 24, 2024 5:23 PM
Scarpachi
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*Edit* it’s Plattsburgh NY in 1987
SJBSavageInk
There's a YouTuber that is stupidly good at finding things like this from a single photo. Rainbow something... Hang on. Rainbolt. Here's one of his videos where he's helping someone. https://youtu.be/QguH6cPToxQ?si=ggu5v64V7c7B0o2m
VidaVita
Yeah, I found it.. I'm nowhere near it. But it's that way...
Sebastopol140
Can't help you for the location but take my upvote. Good luck.
CallMeMcGyver
He appears to be carrying a softball and mitt… are there baseball fields near where where he lived in the photo’s time frame?
imyourrealdad
That’s a dad alright. Classic dad. Sorry for your loss.
coolusernameperson
Holy shit those are prob the most awesome dad socks ever
GreatMateTommy
JoseMonkey on tiktok is pretty great at this stuff
StormSaxon
Came here to say this
NameChecksOut87
Send it to that geoguesser pro he'll get there on google maps in 20 minutes
Canofminus
Looks like he’s about to take out some punks in 1982.
nocheese
Looks like a rugby player.
HeadlessBodyofAgnew
ravenousj
He looks like he's about to kick some ass.
RecurringNightmare
i assume plattsburgh NY USA is meant? sadly there are a ton of soft/baseball fields there, but i checked some for those lanterns and this location seems to have similar ones...maybe thats a start? you could also check retirement homes in the area for older people who might remember how the city looked back then and where that photo might be taken... https://maps.app.goo.gl/uJjyVidEwsuz4a3S8
mrputter
I agree those lanterns are close, but they're not quite the same: if you look closely, their tops are round, not angular like in OP's photo. I did find some 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 similar ones in a neighbourhood of Phillipsburg NJ, though, in case OP was mistaken about the state: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TDv1uprTsgBbi5HR6
SwagicalYololord
There’s a YouTuber that is a god at GeoGuesser and finds locations like these for people. Goes by RainBolt, you should check him out.
rusrsdude
@op have you tried this yet
CallMeMcGyver
I’ve never heard of “Pburg”… also an approximate year of the photo in addition to the actual town name would be very helpful.
BobAllen2004
May want to try r/WhereIsThis on reddit.
Rosfmmmhzdrozzley
Rainbolt could get this done in 10 seconds
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
Git gud at geoguessr
Zoomoth9000
paging @rainbolt
Righteousdew
That boi thicc.
nocheese
Sorry for your loss.
RowanUnderwood
Going to be tough to recreate an image that's mostly plants because they will have changed enough to look completely different now.
NickRivieraMD
Your dad was hella jacked
ShlongaDonga
Ask the geoguessr dude
BigKittyWolf
You're going to have to give some more detail on where i lived or what he could have been doing there
BigKittyWolf
Looks like baseball and glove. that could be downtown. The lamp could be anywhere. Valcour or the us oval maybe?
bixby66
Dem ass kicking thighs.
crookedamigo
Knock knock
freewaydog
The 80's. But seriously, good luck.
GrosseChung
What a unit
grants123
your dad was a brick house
eathotdog
Yea if op wants to recreate this he might need one hell of a workout routine
JRaven419
He's mighty mighty just letting it all hang out?
TheCornBanana
He's got to tuck it in his pocket so it doesn't get loose and bite someone
fiftyfourfourtysixwasmynumber
Kind of looks like Prattsburgh, NY. A small town in Steuben Cty. in the Southern Tier region.
anim8rjb
you mean like he said in the title of the post?
mikpat70
Sir, between the white socks and the tucked in polo he may have reached the ultimate level of dad power.
freezingpilot
How about the Jorts?
mrputter
Hey @OP I may have found something for you... except that it's in Phillipsburg NJ, not NY. How certain are you about the state?
In any case, this neighbourhood just at the SE edge of town, out near Greenwich Township, has 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 similar streetlamps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HbCVoHNUKeWwfBB59
I haven't yet found that specific spot (searching now for something like the birdbath/fence in the background) and several of the streets don't have Google Street View, but it may be a start?
mrputter
Ok I've gone over every stretch of road with Google Street View in that neighbourhood and come up empty. Also that area looks like it was only developed in about 2000, while the one in your photo looks more like it dates from the ~ 1960s (or even the '50s?).
That's not the only neighbourhood in Phillipsburg with those streetlamps, though. There's also eg: one around Buckley Hill Dr. in the NE.
There's no GSV at all there however, so I can't help much. Still a bit bullish on Phillipsburg tho'.
un1matr1x
You could try to ask this guy https://twitter.com/arithmoquine/status/1785834410312454389/photo/1 - or better the guy at the screenshot
GSA1386
But if guy at screenshot dead then guy no make answer. You be silly man guy. Why you make silly word to guy from post? You can no think for real to ask man from death? No can you to be for the serious.
un1matr1x
He uses “ai” to identify places based on images
rbudrick
What ai would one use to do so?
Cthulhuonabike
That is the kind of thing AI is supposed to be used for. Scanning for patterns to save us time of having to do it manually
bigfatmadcowmoo
I tried searching the image with your dad removed but no luck. It's probably somewhere residential maybe?
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
MarsIsAfire
lol that's dark
bigfatmadcowmoo
Ha! Okay y'all that wasn't what I was going for, the Google image search kept trying to return images with similar looking men. Oh man... I'm going to hell aren't I?
thesavagery
@OP Philipsburg, New York?
clamdriver
Wait, what?
CallMeMcGyver
I looked into it, it seems like that’s a possibility… “Pburg” appears in articles about Phillipsburg…
KarmaticEquation
I grew the town up the river from pburg. That’s what we all called phillipsburg, New Jersey.
thesavagery
Or New Jersey?
mrputter
OP says "NY" in his post, so I would infer not New Jersey.
mrputter
ON THE OTHER HAND, I did a bunch of Google Street View searching around Plattsburgh NY for streetlamps of that style and I came up empty-handed, but I 𝘸𝘢𝘴 able to find something similar in a neighbourhood of Phillipsburg NJ, so you may be on to something! It's possible OP was mistaken?
feedusfetus
I was thinking Plattsburgh
bacross
Granted I was 6 in 82, not ringing any bells for plattsburgh. The painted curbs and that style of street lamp weren't a thing here.
Zinman
Has to be
thesavagery
I've only visited NYC once, so I'm clueless for everything else. Thanks!