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bordering gulf of mex?

how about Arizona? ....remember the Arizona

I like Wyoming so I'll guess that...

Good guess, wrong but good.

looking for a place in a city, historic place

Nope, but you're within driving distance.

Are you in Virginia City?

...site of the Ponderosa Ranch (supposedly "ficticious" but I saw it on TV so I know it's real), site of the Comstock Lode silver mines, the place where Samuel Clemens first used the pen name Mark Twain

I am in Virgina City, a specific place in that city.

BTW- there is a Ponderosa Ranch, or at least a TV set. It's over by lake Tahoe and the whole thing takes up about two acres. The back of main street is the front of the Cartwright's homestead

Dude those pix are from Tombstone Az.

But no not the cemetery.

howdy pardner...who you callin a dude? better draw your gun and aim sharp!

ok...I had a lapse in searching skillz :(

might you be at Piper's Opera House?

Built in 1885 and still in use, Piper's Opera House has recently undergone extensive restoration. This stage once welcomed President Grant, Buffalo Bill, Al Jolson and Mark Twain. Plus, viewers of shows at Piper’s Opera House can keep their eye out for the ghosts who are said to attend many of the performances.

No, but you're narrowing it down. Only so many famous places in this town.

Tunnel? Come on guys where would a guy like me be?

the virginia city spite house?

ain't a whole lot in virginia city...

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Originally Posted by Tully Mars (Post 2725389)

Tunnel? Come on guys where would a guy like me be?

There's just too many things happening in Virginia City!!! Are you at one of these?

I'm trying to decide between the Annual Virginia City Camel Races, or the Virginia City Outhouse Races, or the Mountain Oyster Festival

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...camelraces.jpg................http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...houseraces.jpg......http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...erfestival.jpg

There's lots of places in Virignia City.

Those are events Nick. I'm at place we could sit down and enjoy a cold one.

the palace restaurant on south "C" street?

I'll guess the Bucket of Blood Saloon since I read that "The Bucket of Blood is one of Virginia City's most famous saloons".

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...iniacitynv.jpg

I am at the bucket of blood.

Yer up.

If we could ever meet there, the rounds of bloody bulls are on me. In case you want to know, a bloody bull is basically a bloody mary with beef bullion and a few flavorful ingredients mixed in. For some reason, I also find a beer chaser works very well with bloody bulls...one of those symbiotic relationships.

Let me dwell on my next venture and I'll be back later.

sorry for my delay but I don't own a GPS and I got lost...errrr, I mean I never get lost but for a while there I just wasn't sure where I was.

OK, where am I this time?

yes, W & NH ...sounds like a railroad name. The Western & Northern Hemispherical Railroad < that's not a clue, I'm just saying.

I can candidaly say I'm on the sofa.

yes east of miss...and north of the suwannee

but, north of the 40?

yes landlocked...not Georgia

Hey Tully, is Ida spanking you yet? I hope she doesn't blow you and get you too wet.

Can't believe I haven't seen this thread yet... can I play?

You wouldn't be on the sofa with a guitar would you?

amonkie, why am I suspicious of you showing up just as I mentioned spanking Tully? ...I rest my case.

yes I am on the sofa playing my Fender Mustang

....and I'll have you know it's an old one (like me) made in Japan, I inherited it from my daughter who gave it back to me in lieu of a debt; she wanted one "just like Kurt Cobain" but now she plays bass in her up and coming soon to be famous band, RVIVR, going on another tour around the western sofa pretty soon, about to have an album released, they already have some releases, and recently interviewed by a couple of mag rags the band likes.

Rumbletowne Records Source: Rumbletowne Records
There has been an art delay for MUTOID WORLD. So it goes: All pre-orders will be sent out at the end of November. BUT! Pre-release special spray-painted versions of MUTOID WORLD will be available on RVIVR's upcoming west coast tour.

Maybe its because I wanted to watch! I hear Ida is great about making them squirm before she blows...

Wow... their sound is definitely not Nashville, but you still in Tennessee?

Ida's missing me, but might be messing up my Thanksgiving plans.

Beautiful sunny day here.

So are you in Tenn?

what did Tenna see? ...not me, since I'm not there.

Actually I was just listening to "Mountain Stage" brought to you by West Virginia Public Broadcasting...but I'm not in WV.

lesee, south of 40, north of the suwanee, east of the mrs., landlocked...

tennessee?

He already said no....

I'm half tempted to say Ohio because Cobain's Mustang is on display at the Rock n Roll Hall of fame.. but that just doesn't fit.

Only other landlocked state left is Arkansas... but that's west of Miss.

oh no, mon amie <<< hey, see how I did that? ...not the only other landlocked state.

I didn't even know KC's Mustang is in Cleveland! ...and as you so correctly surmised, I'm not in Ohia...nor Arkansas ...why do they pronouced it "Kansas" but when you add the "Ar" in front, it's suddenly Ar-kansaw? ....another of the unending mysteries of the universe.

this might help: when unc first asked me if I'm north of 40 and I looked it up, I was ready to say "yes" but then surprised myself that it is actually not north of the 40...so look closely.

nope...way too far west

go east, young man, go east

yepa

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I am in a historically significant building from way back during the time there was that tea party.

not the old customs house?

no, but if you look south from there, you can't miss this sticking up above everything else.

Or if you're driving down I-95 between the sports complex and downtown, you see this building obviously jutting up above everything else around there, just west of the highway. As I was driving by there with my kids, I'd point it out and ask "hey, do you know what that building is?" and then I'd explain it to them, and the significance of the shape of the building to its intended (and successful) function. But when I did that last week my boy said "dad, we already know that"...and he repeated the whole story to me ...so I suppose they did learn something.

I'm gonna see if I can see this bldg from google street view...that would be cool <<< found it! You can actually walk down the street and look up at this cool building.

nope, neither of those.

clue: this building was important in supporting the early U.S. arms and munitions requirements. It's not the only building of its kind in the U.S., but it was the first one of its kind in America.

not a bad guess, but Frankford Arsenal is in Bridesburg and I'm in South Philly, a few miles south of the Arsenal, and on the other side of I-95 since the Arsenal is on the east side. But bullets are a key clue for the building I'm at now.

did she make bullets? I think not. Go further south...maybe a mile or so.

Possible "mislead" correction...I said it had to do with the tea party, but this building was actually built a few years later in the very early 1800's.

clue: other than the word "bullet" what word was used as the common name of pistol and rifle projectiles at that time? That word is part of the name of this place.

nope...further south....though I realize my over-familiarity with the locations here are of no real help unless you know Philadelphia quite well.

try to focus on that last bullet clue I gave above...if you guess that word I'll confirm it and then finding this building should be easier since it has that word in its name.

the philadelphia armory?

nope.

I'll hold off a bit longer and then I might have to tell you the clue word if somebody doesn't get it by later this evening...Eastern U.S. time.

Back in the 1700's to early 1800's, most hand guns used bullets that were called "----"

Sparks Shot Tower

there's one in baltimore, too...

bingo, you found me, unc. You're up next.

I love ya, unc, but I was hoping amonkie would win since she's the new kid on the block..you know, make her feel wanted and stuff.

Sparks Shot Tower
Sparks Shot Tower looks like a smoke stack with a lid on top, but it's really America's first shot tower built in 1808. Shot towers revolutionized the making of musket balls and other solid projectiles based on the principle that molten lead will form perfect round balls when poured from a high place.

Until this discovery, gun shot was made by pouring the lead into wooden molds. Plumber Thomas Sparks and a partner created a 142-foot-high brick tower with a 30-foot circumference at its base tapering to 15 feet at the top. It stands along the Delaware River waterfront at Carpenter Street in South Philly and is easily seen from Route I-95.

The molten lead was poured through a mesh with different sized holes for different sizes of shot. The balls fell into a large container of water. The tower produced tons of ammunition during the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Four generations of the Sparks family kept the tower in operation until 1903. The tower is now part of a city playground with a recreation center at the base. It's a prime example of Philadelphia's reputation for superb brickwork.

Here's the two cool pics I printed from Google Maps Street View, and then walking around the neighborhood until I could look up and see the Sparks Shot Tower:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...sotherview.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...streetview.jpg

unc, I just found out that this one in Baltimore was the tallest structure in the U.S. for about twenty years!:

Phoenix Shot Tower or later the Merchants Shot Tower, Baltimore, MD
Perhaps the most famous shot tower remaining is the Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. Erected in 1828, the tower is the last of four in Baltimore that were used for making shot, or lead pellets, used as ammunition in muskets. The shot was made of molten lead that was heated by furnaces inside the tower, poured through sieves at the top and dropped into tanks of water near the base.

The building is considered an engineering marvel because it took more than one million bricks to construct; it was erected in less than six months without the use of exterior scaffolding, and it stood as the nation's tallest structure for nearly two decades. When the building was threatened with demolition in 1921, a group of citizens bought it and gave it to the city for preservation.

At its peak, the tower produced up to 500,000 25-pound bags of shot a year, making it one of the nation's largest suppliers of ammunition. It operated until 1892, when rising costs forced the owners to abandon it.

Shot Towers were not uncommon in 19th century skylines. One of three in Baltimore was built on the corner of Fallsway and Fayette St. in 1828. The Phoenix Shot Tower Company of Baltimore constructed it without the use of scaffolding. Charles Carroll of Carrollton laid the corner stone. Molten lead was dropped from the top of the tower. As it fell, it formed balls. Water at the bottom would catch and cool the shot. The tower and surrounding plant was acquired by the Merchant's Shot Tower Company, who manufactured shot there until 1892.

Union Oil bought the factory in 1921 with the intention of tearing it down and building a gas station in its place. Public outcry saved the tower, and the gas station was built along side it. In 1924 Union Oil gave the Shot Tower to the city. It was restored in 1976 and opened to the public as a museum.

The Phoenix Shot Tower was a lead shot manufacturing facility that was in operation from 1828 to 1892. Molten lead was dropped from a platform at the top of the tower through a sieve-like device and into a vat of cold water. When hardened, dried and polished, the shot was sorted into 25-pound bags. Over 234 feet in height, the Shot Tower was the tallest structure in the United States until the Washington Monument in Washington, DC was completed after the Civil War.

The Shot Tower was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972.

i'll have to think on it for a while...

i'll be someplace later today...

hovering in the air? e.g., in the Blimp

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...illerpark2.jpg

tully - yup

nick - nope

nope to both WH and hovering?

yup to WH, nope to "hovering..."

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Originally Posted by Tully Mars (Post 2727440)

on land?

yup...

so NH & WH, on land, not hovering

are you on the sofa again?

nope...

think outside the box...