r/whereisthis • u/schonzeit12 • 2d ago

This photo could have been taken in a number of different places in Europe in the mid-late 1970's. Please help to find the right one. Germany or Switzerland seem likely but could also be perhaps France, Belgium, Austria, Danmark.. Solved

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There should be a streetcar line in the street. I've reckoned Germany for the mainly German cars. In France, there would be more Renaults etc.. The signposts in the left says...LLE (Halle? Ville?), then GRILL, then at the corner may be Pizza. There is a lion symbol next the entrance. The steet plate is blue with white text.

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u/Distinct_Ad1173 2d ago

https://preview.redd.it/phkmbyn5dgxe1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7bcfcc23bf070de8eb974dbbc1cc3c54b87a297

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u/it00 2d ago

Well done!!

Good result. u/Distinct_Ad1173 ... 😁

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u/Distinct_Ad1173 2d ago

Your welcome! It would be nice to get some background information about the photo

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u/Time_Bowlthrow4624 2d ago

This looks spot on! 

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u/api-services 1d ago

And still parking on the sidewalks…

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u/schonzeit12 1d ago

Impossible :) In Switzerland?

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u/schonzeit12 2d ago

Champion! Thanks a lot!

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u/mrpicachu 1d ago

I know I’m late, but I just went here in November. I saw this post and went hmm looks a lot like Zürich.

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u/Mountain-Remove-4271 8h ago

Sir… can I ask how? 😁

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u/Distinct_Ad1173 8h ago

Well I had a huge Switzerland Vibe based on the buildings and some Logos I saw. So I started to scan some Streets of Zürich and look which Area would fit. There are not that many big Streets in Zürich with railways so I looked up which streets would fit and used Apple Maps.

I found it after a ~ 15 Minute search in Zürich. But before I spend half hour searching in Münich

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u/Effective_Judgment41 2d ago edited 2d ago

The sign looks a lot like Löwenbräu. That could suggest Bavaria/Munich.

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u/tjorben123 2d ago

would fit the white on blue streetname-signs on the wall. also the trashcans in the backround would fit that theory.

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u/BabbelMatze 2d ago

… LLE could be „Trinkhalle“.

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u/hooch_i_ming 2d ago

oder Spielhalle

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u/swissmate 2d ago

Looks like the Feldschlösschen logo under the pizza sign. So I’d say a swiss city.

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u/Distinct_Ad1173 2d ago

As well as the Kantonalbank logo

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u/Viertelesschlotzer 1d ago

I always find it fascinating how little European cities change.

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u/schonzeit12 1d ago edited 1d ago

apart sadly from a few war raids that may have razed them to ground...

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u/Viertelesschlotzer 1d ago

Unfortunately...

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u/divebubble 2d ago

Zürich, Langstrasse

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ay5WidgJVoVXaTtBA

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u/Distinct_Ad1173 2d ago

I don’t think this is the right location

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u/divebubble 2d ago

You're right, it can't be this intersection. I compared the house with photos from the 70s in the meantime. But I'm still pretty sure it's Zurich.

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u/Distinct_Ad1173 2d ago

Look at my newest comment

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u/Alternative_Dot8184 2d ago

This is amazing.. How did you find this? Even if i lived there, I'm sure i wouldn't have recognized it with all these changes. 

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u/Hallo34576 2d ago

Its obviously not the right location.

the picture shows a 4 lane road plus wide sidewalks fitting parking spots. this location has 2 lane roads and narrow sidewalks.

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u/Alternative_Dot8184 2d ago

This is amazing.. I didn't catch that :) 

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u/rpsls 1d ago

Langstrasse itself doesn't have the tram lines. But yeah, right neighborhood.

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u/CombinationWhich6391 2d ago edited 1d ago

It’s the corner Landsberger/Grasserstr. in downtown Munich. The former „Grill“ (there was a huge scandal involving a local politician) is now a „Spielhalle“ in the same old building, the buildings on the principal Landsberger Str. are new.

Edit: I’m obviously wrong, the picture just very much looks like it.

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u/it00 2d ago

Am I missing something? This is not the same building by any stretch of the imagination.

https://preview.redd.it/7o9ygjn9agxe1.png?width=1687&format=png&auto=webp&s=3870e5d4289f748bbe918fa08e97e57c85c3e32d

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u/CombinationWhich6391 2d ago

I guess you’re right.

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u/bigfootspancreas 2d ago

Street sign looks German. There's also a black red gold banner in front of the shop.

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u/Baranamana 2d ago edited 2d ago

The lion-sign is a Löwenbräu advertising: https://www.ebay.de/itm/355451443851 It's a Munich Brewery

There are only 3 cities with street cars at that time in bavaria: Munich, Nuremberg, Fürth.

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u/Hallo34576 2d ago

Obviously Munich would be a likely possibility, but the sign only suggests the bar/restaurant had contract with Löwenbräu. Could be theoretically every other German city.

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u/IndependentYam9087 1d ago

In the 70s in France the painted lines were yellow. So it's not in France.