Fun With Google Maps: Urban Cowboys in Philadelphia
Ah, Google. Your Street Views option opened the door to so much humor and hilarity. Whole websites are dedicated to it and you’ve helped us find everything from the Starship Enterprise to illegally parked fighter jets. Now the city of Philadelphia thanks you, for giving us our very own wacky Street View scene to talk about.
Open up your browser and pay a visit to the intersection of N. 17th Street and W. Cambria St here in Philadelphia, zipcode 19132. You won’t see anything right away. Go South one click and face the reddish building.
Behold! Two Urban Cowboys, making their way down N. 17th Street.
We’re aware that it isn’t an uncommon sight, and that sure, Fairmount Park isn’t that far away. But to be caught on Google’s Street View makes this all kinds of awesome.
Thanks for the tip, Steve. That’s one amazing find.
By steve on Jun 18, 2008
Don’t forget about the impending borg invasion caught in google sky:
http://tinyurl.com/484czu
By Alfred on Jun 19, 2008
That’s nothing… I was checking my aunt’s house out on Street View and as I got near it I saw her on the front porch… kissing my uncle! Awesome!
Google Street View is watching you…
By Gabbiana on Jun 19, 2008
The hell?
Also, yeah, why *can’t* you see the cowboys in the link you posted (to the intersection of N 17th and Cambria), but there they are, clear as day, at the address 2890 N 17th? Did they gallop off by the time the van got through the intersection?
(Okay, actually I am forced to conclude, based on a careful examination of the shadows in street view, that the google-mapping van got as far north as that corner and then quit for the day, which is how the horses disappear… But why, google van, why? You saw two dudes on *horses* in burnt-out North Philly and decided *not* to follow them?)
Weird. So weird.