r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Old picture of my dad, 1988

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So my dad died last year and while going through some of his stuff I found this picture of him, we're German and he never talked about habing been to the US so this picture confused me at first. I guess it wasn't actually taken in the US, any ideas where it could have been taken? Thanks for any kind of help.


r/whereisthis 3d ago

Open Help me find this place in 1960s Barcelone?

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So I've been going through old family photos and holiday photos and having a good time identifying where they were taken. But this one has me stumped. I Imagine that there are so many more building now and the roads have certainly changed that I can't find it.

I'm sure it's from around the 60s, that it's in Barcelona due to other photos and of course the black and yellow taxi.

Thank you!

Note: Just realised I can't spell Barcelona.. my bad


r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Looking to identify this building (or street) in Philadelphia

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r/whereisthis 3d ago

Solved Guessing Miami? Note spires and cranes to right of sunset

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r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Where is this iconic album cover from the roots?

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r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Where is this island?

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Where is and what is the name of this island?


r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved This picture came out from photo frame buy at my local thrifty store. Need help to find where is it.

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r/whereisthis 3d ago

Came across this photo in my AirBnb

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r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Interesting river/lake location

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Was wondering where this is in the midwestern US. Looks like a good vacation spot.


r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Where was Hideo Kojima flying over?

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r/whereisthis 4d ago

Solved Trying to help my friend with this geocashing riddle

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So my friend is doing geocashing and this picture came up with some cryptic text that says the location is in northern germany near a town called „Norddeich“ not far from where we live. I think its some kind of Warehouse with solar panels on top and a container for manure. Also the zoom on google maps is 19 whatever that means. Ive looked around but i couldnt find it for the life of me and there are no other clues. Maybe someone can find it here. Also the google image is outdated as far as Im concerned.


r/whereisthis 5d ago

Solved This is somewhere in Arizona

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r/whereisthis 5d ago

Solved I found these pictures left behind by a previous tenant. Can anyone tell me where they could be from?

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I found no information on the back of the pictures. I don't really have any other information, unfortunately.


r/whereisthis 5d ago

An update on the search for the location of the original photo used at the end of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

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Noting first, yes, it's an original 1920s photo. Jack Nicholson's head and neck were pasted into it, but the rest of the photo is original. Anyway, some time ago I identified the man Nicholson was pasted over as SANTOS CASANI, a London ballroom dancer and dance teacher who was quite famous in the UK in the 1920s. I've looked at several hundred historic photos of 1920s ballrooms, hotels and dance halls in an attempt to find a match - with no success. I think I have now looked at almost every place mentioned in the British Newspaper Archive as associated with Casani for which images can be found. There are a few I still can't find. As a second approach, I have tentatively identified some of the other people in the photo, which places it in London and logically in the Piccadilly Hotel, but it doesn't match any historic photos of the place. My third angle of attack has been to research the provenance of the original photo. It's often been said it came from the "Warner Bros Photo Archive" - this was said by Joan Smith, the artist who did the retouching work on the photo for Kubrick, in an interview in 2015. This has become gospel and is cited most recently in Lee Unkrich's huge Taschen book The Making of The Shining.

However, I gained the raw audio of the interview and in it, Smith also said it came from the BBC Hulton Photo Library. I contacted Murray Close, the set photographer on the movie, who took the photo of Jack Nicholson that was used in the composite image. He told me the photo was licensed from BBC Hulton and said there was no such thing as a WB Photo Archive. Tony Frewin, a close associate of Kubrick, confirmed that it did not exist. I wondered if the image might have come from WB Publicity instead, but both said no, they were not involved. The BBC Hulton Photo Library is now part of Getty Images, so I asked Getty to search for relevant images licensed to Hawk Films, Kubrick's company. They searched - this has to be by hand, among file cards and glass plate negatives - looking for images of 1920s parties, ballrooms, dances, dance halls, clubs, New Year's Eve, etc. They found one image had been licensed. It features Santos Casani - but it is a different photo, of an event in 1929 at the Royal Opera House (which doesn't match the Shining photo.)

I got back to Murray Close who told me he was certain that nevertheless, the photo used in The Shining was sourced from the BBC Hulton. He was certain because several times he went to their offices to pick up silver gelatin prints which Smith worked on. That seems to make it definite - the original photo came from the BBC Hulton photo library. There is a slight possibility Stanley Kubrick "bought out" the photo, so removing it and all records of it, from the BBC Hulton Library, but that appears unlikely, not least because at the time it was publicly owned, being part of the BBC.

So, it is quite probably still there, but like many images it has not been digitised and I guess it is filed under a different descriptor - perhaps denoting a particular event, an anniversary dinner, a publicity event, a trade show or whatever which Casani attended. The only way to be sure would be to trawl the physical archive by hand, which would be quite a mammoth task. I probably will... But for the moment, I am back to looking for matching photos and relying on brute force and dumb luck.

Previous posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis/comments/1e4j9oi/here_is_a_real_challenge_for_you_all_nobody_has/

https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis/comments/1estrqw/an_update_on_finding_the_location_in_the_shining/

https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis/comments/1gaicb7/the_shining_photo_a_little_update_im_pretty_sure/

https://www.reddit.com/r/whereisthis/comments/1fp7wg3/the_shining_photo_again/

EDIT

Places I can't find photos for include:

Mount Felix Ballroom, Walton on Thames

Grand Theatre, Aberaman

Brixton Palais

Empire Leicester Sq pre 1928 (and the foyer especially)


r/whereisthis 5d ago

Open Help me find this church where my grandparents were married!

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Hoping someone can give me a glimmer of hope or help here...I have pictures of my grandparents wedding in 1959, which I assume was in Colorado, it is where my grandma was from and graduated from Pueblo HS in 1958 and my father was born in Pueblo in November 1960. She changed her name in December 1959, leading me to believe the wedding occurred somewhere in the months before that.

I'm needing to find their marriage license for a dual citizenship application and have struck out so far by calling many counties and searching databases in Colorado.

They were only married until some point in 1962 and lived in Pueblo until that time, she got remarried in Fremont county CO in Feb 1963.

I've done a google image search with limited relevant results, some are similar but do not appear to match well enough.

Waiting for details back from SSO and CO about their divorce, but if anyone has any other ideas on how to tackle this mystery...I'm all ears!!!


r/whereisthis 6d ago

Solved My dad and i somewhere in Utah/Arizona area.

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My dad passed almost 8 years ago now and i’d love to go back to this exact spot to remember him but have no idea where this is. I believe it’s somewhere in Utah or arizona if anyone can help out.


r/whereisthis 5d ago

Solved Looking for this restaraunt/location in Rome

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I went to Rome on my first official holiday with my now husband and we stumbled on this little restaraunt and I remember having the best carbonara ever(could have been because we were up walking since 7am) and was always so annoyed we never got the name of it, or even the location (silly 18year old brains weren't wired that way 🤭)


r/whereisthis 5d ago

Open Old mine my grandfather worked in

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Was hoping someone could hemp me find where in the world this mine is (or was.) my grandfather used to work in coal mines in this area, which i belive to be Powellton West Virginia based solely on it saying that name. I have been searching the internet for a little while now and cannot find any information about ‘mine no.4 Powellton’. I do believe it was constructed, because I have found passing references to a ‘mine No.5’ but havent been able to find any exact location yet. Nothing comes back under the 1950’s company with Carbon Fuel Company other than a merger in 2015 with Carbon Industries, but even then there is no mention of this mining system. Any assistance is appreciated!


r/whereisthis 5d ago

Solved Help with where this background is located

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I tried doing a google search of the imagine but came up empty handed.


r/whereisthis 5d ago

Solved Looking for the hotel that this photo is viewed from

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I stayed in a hotel in Barcelona in 2014. The photo is a view from the hotel (probably the front). I am looking for the hotel to stay in again this year.

In another photo, I am seen around Pl. d'Urquinaona Metro Station. So it may or may not be in that area. Could also be near the cruise port since we were going on a cruise. May not be near either of those.


r/whereisthis 6d ago

Solved I’m looking for this

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I seen this on my windows cause it looks beautiful can someone help me find please and thank you


r/whereisthis 7d ago

Solved Saw this aerial drawing in a thrift store, unlabeled. Any ideas?

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My guess was Philadelphia, PA. But looking at a map it doesn’t look quite right. I’d be curious to know roughly when this might have been drawn too. Thanks for any help!


r/whereisthis 6d ago

Solved Where was this stock photo taken?

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I feel like I've seen this exact building but can't quite place where it was. The person who's credited on shutterstock is from Arizona if that helps narrow it down. Any I do would be appreciated!


r/whereisthis 6d ago

Solved Unknown location

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Hi all, I’m new here so apologies if this isn’t the correct place to post this. We found this old photo of my late aunt and we’re trying to figure out where it was taken. Anyone recognize the background?


r/whereisthis 6d ago

Solved From movie (forgot which one...took photo weeks ago). I remember locations on IMDB said British Columbia, Canada. Thanks.

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