We’ve been waiting
for a year
; now it’s
finally here
! From Rio Dell to Patrick’s Point, Humboldt County has been added to Google Street View!
Now’s when the fun starts. We’re going to give some kind of prize — TBA, but awesome — to the Street View sightseer who finds the best Humboldt County Street View sight and posts it here.
Get searching!
UPDATE:
Helpful hint — to acquire the link to the specific Street View you have found, use the “Link” button, as seen in the top-right corner of the screenshot on this page. Copy the link (control-C or command-C). Then paste it in your comment inside a HTML link tag, like thus:
<a href=”[STUFF YOU COPIED]”>
Here’s a rad cool Street View! Prominent Ferndalian caught leaving downtown motel with female ‘friend’!
</a>
Your rad cool Street View will be thus linked.
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Boy, you ain’t from around here, aren ya…
“We don’t need your kind ’round here…Now, Git!
(Note camera in hand of worker taking a photo of the Google Guy”
Crap! Let me try again.
G’won Git!
The good old days.
Very nice! An early favorite!
AJ — that wouldn’t have been a year ago, would it?
In keeping with Eko’s meta-StreetView theme, how about this awkward encounter with the Street View car on the bridge back from Cock Robin Island?
Start here.The poor local is almost all the way across! Now keep clicking on the North arrow until you reach Pedrazzini Park, and you’ll see old-school Humboldt generosity in action.
As it happens, I can pinpoint the week because our friends moved to Eureka last year and their gray folding chair is visible inside the moving van. Why it’s unpacked and open inside the van is a separate question. This particular image was taken in the vicinity of September 12, 2007.
Out in McKinleyville, I’m heartened to see the classic orange Union 76 ball, before ConocoPhillips replaced it with an evil red ball in April of this year.
Update to the Cock Robin Island sequence: I realize, now, that I’m watching this movie in reverse. The local is not backing across the bridge; he is tailgating the Street View car across.
The Street View car is driving to Cock Robin Island, not away from it. We are looking out the back window, not the windshield.
Wow, that’s kinda creepy.
I’m enjoying snooping other neighborhoods, but looking at my own I feel kind of naked.
I wished I knew they were coming, they caught me in between lawn mowings.
On a side note, if you use this feature in sync with Google Earth, you can tag locations on the Earth view and automatically link to the street view in Maps. So now Kevin Hoover can bookmark grow houses on Google Earth, and everyone on the planet can check them out up close! How convenient! Now the FBI doesn’t even have to come to town to check out what’s going on in Arcata! Uh Oh!!
Dude, it’s not just Kevin who knows where your grow houses are. Everyone knows where your grow houses are.
Ha! so true.
Not mine though. I’m the non-grower outcast in the ‘hood. You can tell because my truck is 10 years old and not jacked up.
Hey, my picture showed up and I’m getting into a car with a woman who is not my wife. Fortunately, it was just a colleague from work. Really. No really. BTW, the picture was taken about 1:30 p.m. on 9/20/2007.
“Hank Sims Says:
Aug. 5, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Dude, it’s not just Kevin who knows where your grow houses are. Everyone knows where your grow houses are.”
Smell-o-vision would be more useful.
Google Street Smell?
Maybe not.
Wow, I found my car outside of Ladyfriend’s house in the late evening. I’m guessing it’s September of 2007 after 8pm because I dropped over after work. We were probably watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern on the Discovery Channel. Oh, look…Is that?…..Yep, that’s her Canadian neighbor studying to pass his citizenship test.
Boy, I love Big Brother….sigh.
Kudos to Google Driver for safely navigating the safety corridor.
Entering at 49 m.p.h..
Slowing to 46 m.p.h. to get the lowdown on the steak and shrimp feast.
And we’ll just have to trust him at the entrance to Eureka, crowded with no registered speed.
And, no problems at the Indianola Cutoff.
Google should sell the camera setup to parents of teens.
In other dated sightings…
Minor Theater: Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Vitus, Becoming Jane and Gypsy Caravan.
Fortuna Theater : Balls of Fury, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, Superbad, Bourne Ultimatum, Stardust (flip side includes Halloween and The Nanny Diaries)
The other theater marquees were not completely legible due to being shot from the opposite lane.
I really miss Lazio’s. Perhaps, I’ll take my out-of-town guests here to start a new dining tradition.
The street picture of our house was from a year ago, because the lawn is dry like it is in late summer. Do you remember when I blogged about the mysterious things duct-taped to the road in front of our house? It was about a year ago. Perhaps it was GOOGLE EARTH. I would have to go back to our blog archives to find the link.
Ekovox, do you suppose that the cloud covering Arcata in your link is 215 smoke, thus attracting the Fed’s?
Damn you Google Earth!
Just thinkin’
Sheesh! I can’t even spell my own phony name correctly…go figure!
There are plenty of situations where you can tell the driver shot intersecting streets at different times of day or on different days because the sky dramatically changes.
I enjoy the exceptional sweet spots where there is glorious sunshine, but if you move forward or backward you return to overcast skies.
My guess is there was a problem with the original photo and the driver returned the next day to recapture that one road segment.
Nothing like strapping your load down in the middle of Broadway.
Niiiice.
By my reckoning, it’s now a dead heat between “G’wan, Git” and “Strapping Down,” with AJ taking the Peter Palmquist Memorial Industriousness Prize for his “Safety Corridor” series.
Been by this place lately?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&t=h&cbll=40.635218,-124.281371&panoid=bhfbjBIWHKsyrKsqF7kvEg&cbp=1,702.6479968706276,,0,20.742252549379547&ll=40.64561,-124.275198&spn=0.027352,0.051327&z=14
Woops. That didn’t work correctly. I’ll try again in a few.
Here we go…
[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps/sv?cbp=1,308.02448894365233,,0,-9.608666564063&cbll=40.875184,-124.086775&panoid=bOTkabJ1l4jtOQk62dQrkw&v=1&hl=en&gl=us&w=425&h=240]
A shadow of the suspect vehicle?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=arcata,+CA+95536&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=40.808336,-124.127934&spn=0.007016,0.016265&z=16&cbll=40.804811,-124.128412&panoid=XrdkVfNzIqeEw83XhWMYxg&cbp=1,287.25654561315366,,0,8.15667957602628
Yikes! Mine did not work either!
Will try again
Here we go.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&t=h&ll=40.946065,-124.076242&spn=0.047974,0.076904&z=14&cbll=40.935734,-124.079328&panoid=GBg9CRKtjYEWltHoW68t7w&cbp=1,88.05765011632081,,0,22.276072308535362
I say…can you see the red car??? This is my hubby’s big rig, and I see a reflection!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=arcata,+CA+95536&layer=c&ie=UTF8&cbll=40.905372,-124.069006&panoid=9S5y9GbXbtEQcZ_Y7y_26A&cbp=1,296.51542774330846,,0,21.162906880160232&ll=40.910059,-124.068689&spn=0.007427,0.013561&t=h&z=16
You know what I just figured out???
Conspiracy!
The Google Car conspicuously avoided large parts of the Wesside, including most of California, the tweaker Champs-Élysées!
What, they made it out to Kneeland, Korbel and Hydesville, but they couldn’t find time for a crucial Eureka neighborhood?
Either the driver was consciously attempting to whitewash our county, or he was too scared to drive around down there.
Shame, too, ’cause there’s some pretty houses out that way.
There you go again Hank…MR.Paranoia, you suppose to be a bit more composed, you are the editor of a weekly and have much influence. Quit trying to scare people that google is evil and out to get all of us.
Very exciting!
The Green Wheels Parking Space project was captured on HSU’s B Street.
Check it out here.
HELP!!! How in the Hell do I get out of here? And I’m low on gas.Shades of Deliverance
Ok, Here
Ah, Hell…..Go to Google Maps, type in 270 Roundhouse Creek Road and hit StreetView. Then try driving out of there. It’s sort of like Hotel California. You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.
Oh, forget it…..the joke was only funny for a moment.
ok, probably not the best pic, but the first that better than the reflection one I found. Shows how much of a contraption there was on the car!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2805+avery+eureka+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=63.647969,112.5&ie=UTF8&ll=40.788271,-124.135514&spn=0.001893,0.003433&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.78732,-124.135697&panoid=y7VkCF-IvrkWWpYk6xJKMw&cbp=1,326.7673154526932,,0,83.24846460048175
Holy moly! That’s a strange one.
It looks like a contraption from Ghost Busters.
Wow, I thought I knew Eureka streets, I had never heard of Avery Street. (So, therefore it must not exist)
Even though this is an everyday occurrence it seems to capture Arcata’s downtown flavor?
I guess it makes it feel more like a neighborhood?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&om=1&layer=c&ll=40.801336,-124.019165&spn=0.873223,1.642456&t=h&z=9
Sorry that hat link doesn’t seem to work.
Here, I’ll try again:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=802+9th+st+95521&sll=40.872637,-124.086177&sspn=0.008259,0.010235&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=40.872361,-124.086242&spn=0.008259,0.010235&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&cbll=40.873215,-124.086159&panoid=VSPLrVsXVTm9oJ3x2Ca2HQ
Isn’t this a famous location lately?
Empty?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=samoa+blvd+95521&sll=40.830437,-124.190826&sspn=0.132225,0.163765&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=40.882826,-124.089632&spn=0.03303,0.040941&t=h&z=14&cbll=40.86596,-124.09254&panoid=GQvIZuqBXMTUh18YcOGFeA&cbp=1,194.56466220115954,,2,3.8153191719293553
Now look in front of Arcata Liquors.
So, Hank, who won?
Ahem! Glad you reminded me!
This “Ryan H.” came on strong near the end, there, with the dude strapping down his big rig in stopped traffic.
But I think it’s gotta be our first entry — “G’wan, Git!” by Ekovox, miraculously found just a couple of hours after the competition opened. Clearly, a higher power was guiding Ekovox’s hand.
Bonus: Click the back ‘n’ forth arrows on “G’wan, Git!” and you’ll see the Google Car weave its way through the redneck roadblock.
Contest retrospective. It was surprising that almost all the best entries depicted the old-school Humboldt, rather than freewheeling dope hippies. The balance would have been titled even further, I maintain, if the Google Car had not tragically skipped the West Side.
Thanks for playing, everyone, and feel free to check back in if you happen across gold. Ekovox, I just decided what your prize is going to be! Give me 2-4 weeks!
‘They really went off the track to get to our address. We are over 1,200 feet from a county road,’ she said in an e-mail.
From Google claims right to post photos from private land (Press Democrat)
Thanks for playing, everyone, and feel free to check back in if you happen across gold. Ekovox, I just decided what your prize is going to be! Give me 2-4 weeks!
YESSSSS!!!!!!! Woooo Hooooo!