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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    I'd say it looks a bit like Hollywood Hills, but that doesn't have anything to do with Bond, does it?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited May 26 Posts: 14,609
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    Not Hollywood Hills.

    Well there's a clue in the flora on display I guess. Indicating (as part of the name, though not in nature limited to one location) other than Hollywood. If that makes sense.

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Palm Springs? Willard Whyte's summer home?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited May 27 Posts: 14,609
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    Correct. Yes the palms as Palm Springs. Elrod House (named for designer Arthur Elrod) being Willard Whyte's summer residence from DAF as you proposed @j_w_pepper .

    Last week from Long Beach I stopped on my way to birdwatching (and general sightseeing for paradise courting apocalypse at Salton Sea an hour drive further) to get as close as I could to Elrod House, Palm Springs. It's a gated community of course, so I wasn't able to approach from streetside. Took some images of the ridge line and closer looking upwward.

    Currently tours of the grounds are not offered as done some years ago. Rented out for luxurious stays at days or weeks at a time.

    [From the novel Diamonds Are Forever, I also swung by Tiffany’s house at the address 515 Via Lolo. As expected nothing to see from the street above wall and hedge. But I relished the connection.]

    Glad I took this opportunity.

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    So this seemed most recognizable to me, reverse view.

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Great pics @RichardTheBruce.

    Bert Saxby really went down hill after his run-in with the CIA.
  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
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    Can we just appreciate the tumble that the stunt man took here. That wasn't a short one but rather long. Wow I hadn't appreciated until the GIF showed the full stunt.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    And to the stuntman's credit he's not even tumbling, but spinning around, torso mostly upright. How does he do that?
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited July 5 Posts: 9,347
    @RichardTheBruce
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    That's Hamburg and the department store Kaufhof, Monckebergstrasse, storefront. Amazing to see it in 1945.

    Avis is supposed to be the first shop window, meaning in the distance to right of the sign over the entrance (EDTRA?). In line with the soldier in front of the first window front with the curved top.
    Getting back to your "EDTRA" question once more, by which I was somewhat intrigued, I found that it is actually ERTRA, and what was left of the name BERTRAM above the entrance. I found a bigger version of the May 1945 photo: 3a771a69-1695-44b2-b4e5-2734cc716180.jpg
    Higher up in the facade it says "BIERHAUS BERTRAM". And here's also an old picture postcard from better days: AK-Hamburg-Gasthaus-Bierhaus-Bertram-Moenckebergstrasse-3-Fassade-Innenansicht.jpg.
    The building was only turned into a department store in the 1960s, keeping only the main facades, and at present is being refurbished to much of its previous state (https://agn.de/projekt/ansicht/revitalisierung-und-umnutzung-kloepperhaus-hamburg - sorry, the page is only in German).
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Great detail for the images on the linked page @j_w_pepper .

    I may have a chance to visit Hamburg and see it in person late August, will keep you posted.



    From travel last month, something could ring a bell in this image.


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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Ding dong... this looks like Istanbul to me. Never been there myself, but my wife went there a couple of times.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Correct on that point, @j_w_pepper .

    There is something to key in on as well.

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    It's the one in the center: the Maiden Tower aka Leander's Tower, first seen somewhere in FRWL but afterwards featuring as Elektra King's hideout in TWINE.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Right on @j_w_pepper it's the Maiden's Tower aka Kız Kulesi on the Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul, Turkey, near the Asia side. Maybe a little unfair I used depth of field to flatten it into the horizontal city view and didn't show any water.

    As you said seen in FRWL
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    and TWINE.
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  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    @RichardTheBruce and @j_w_pepper great that I learn something new: Didn't know that the Maiden Tower is also visible in FRWL. I guess that a lot of Bond fans believe that the Tower is far away from the city as it is never filmed with Istanbul behind it in TWINE. In fact, there was a group of fans in the city this year for visiting Bond locations and they thought a ship is needed for taking good photos of the Maiden Tower.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Thanks @goldenswissroyale I can give more detail eventually on the Pilgrimages discussion.

    I viewed Maiden's Tower first from land on the Asia side. Then I took a ferry west across the Bosphorus Strait to the Europe side station (the image with the book has it in the background). Then caught a boat tour back across specifically to Maiden's Tower and walked all through the site and structure. Had an Americano and croissant there in the shop.

  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
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    Sounds great @RichardTheBruce . Visiting Bond movie locations is always a highlight for me.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    I'm still standing at the ready for showing you guys (m/f/d) around the locations in Hamburg, whenever you make it here.
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