The Great Bond Geoguesser Game

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• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  May 26 Posts: 9,310

  I'd say it looks a bit like Hollywood Hills, but that doesn't have anything to do with Bond, does it?
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 26 edited May 26 Posts: 14,546

  
  
  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_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  May 26 Posts: 9,310

  Palm Springs? Willard Whyte's summer home?
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 26 edited May 27 Posts: 14,546

  
  Stock Photo

  
  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.
  
  

  
  

  
  
  So this seemed most recognizable to me, reverse view.
  
  

  
  
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  May 27 Posts: 15,235

  Great pics @RichardTheBruce.
  
  Bert Saxby really went down hill after his run-in with the CIA.
• thedove hiding in the Greek underworld

  May 27 Posts: 5,923

  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.
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  July 5 Posts: 15,235

  And to the stuntman's credit he's not even tumbling, but spinning around, torso mostly upright. How does he do that?
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'

  July 5 edited July 5 Posts: 9,310

  @RichardTheBruce
  

  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  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:
  Higher up in the facade it says "BIERHAUS BERTRAM". And here's also an old picture postcard from better days: .
  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).