Where Is It?

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Re: ZZ Top

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Hey maybe they can take some music lessons while they are there and release a song that isn't "3 chords for 3 minute songs"

Actually I do really enjoy their music and I know they have a blues and jazz background and are much better musicians than the lead on. But I couldn't resist the irony of a band known for playing the most simple songs at a music and arts school.

Pixl wrote:It has been announced that ZZ Top will e performing at Interlochen this summer. Their promotional photos include a shot "somewhere", looks like a rual location but has concrete ties and great looking balast. Anyone know this location?
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Re: Where Is It?

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Looks like a flooded street in Detroit. Seems like I've seen the building on the left.
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AARR wrote:Looks like a flooded street in Detroit. Seems like I've seen the building on the left.
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It is a flooded street somewhere in Detroit.. but where?
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~Z~ wrote:
AARR wrote:Looks like a flooded street in Detroit. Seems like I've seen the building on the left.
~Z~ wrote:Where be it?
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It is a flooded street somewhere in Detroit.. but where?
Beaubien Street looking south under the two abandoned railroad bridges. The CN/Amtrak Lines and the Conrail SA bridge behind the picture taker's current position, all in Detroit, Detroit City School district, Wayne County.

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Both Junction and Vinewood look pretty much the same. But could also be Beaubien.
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railrod1949 wrote:Beaubien Street looking south under the two abandoned railroad bridges. The CN/Amtrak Lines and the Conrail SA bridge behind the picture taker's current position, all in Detroit, Detroit City School district, Wayne County.
6327 Beaubien St is correct, nice work Rodney. Was looking in the area for the new Q-line on Woodward. Noticed Fox Theater down there while looking on street view yesterday. Found out later that Soundgarden was playing there last night, then saw this morning that the lead signer Chris Cornell took his life afterwards :(
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Is that near a lighthouse? Up in the Lenawee Peninsula maybe? Seems they used to roll the life boat on rails to the water.
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Sorry, not Lenawee.
AARR wrote:Is that near a lighthouse? Up in the Lenawee Peninsula maybe? Seems they used to roll the life boat on rails to the water.
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Mission Point!
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AARR wrote:Is that near a lighthouse? Up in the Lenawee Peninsula maybe? Seems they used to roll the life boat on rails to the water.
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AARR, name correction, Leelanau Peninsula, not Lenawee.
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Leelanau it is. Sleeping Bear Lifesaving Station findable on Google Earth if you look closely.

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Pixl wrote:Leelanau it is. Sleeping Bear Lifesaving Station findable on Google Earth if you look closely.

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Yes, indeed, that's the Sleeping Bear Lifesaving Station (actually Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Station Maritime Museum, part of the National Park Service) in the Glen Lake Community School district, Glen Arbor Township, Leelanau County. It's about ten miles west of Glen Arbor on Sleeping Bear Dunes Road, west off M-109. The body of water in the background is the Sleeping Bear Bay, part of Lake Michigan, looking northeast in the first shot. The maritime museum will open this coming holiday weekend daily for the 2017 summer season and last until Labor day weekend. It's have mailing address of Glen Arbor, MI, 49636.
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This is the place I was thinking about. I wrote the wrong name. Took the tour there and enjoyed it :) .
Pixl wrote:Leelanau it is. Sleeping Bear Lifesaving Station findable on Google Earth if you look closely.

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Mission Point!


Do I win anything for being close? Sniff :wink:
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hoborich wrote:
Mission Point!


Do I win anything for being close? Sniff :wink:
hoborich, are you referring to Mission Point on the Mackinac Island or Old Mission at the northern end of M-37 in Peninsula Township, northeast of traverse City?

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Old Mission on the Leelanau Penninsula was what I was referring to. Had a senior moment there.
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Here's one that hasn't been used for RR traffic in many many years:
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Is that one of the abandoned Toledo Terminal bridges?
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