Scooter Photo Scavenger Hunt 2010 Week 3: Long Street Names

[ScootLemont]

Scooter Photo Scavenger Hunt 2010 Week 3: Long Street Names
April 11th – April 18th

Join in on the fun!
Note: if you haven’t joined the hunt yet, you can still jump in.
You do not have to go crazy with 20 point photos – If you want, feel free to go get the basic photo & post up. No one will give you a hard time here. We just want lots of people to play along – the fun part is seeing LOTS of scoots with the subject of the week.

Your Scooter in a photo with a long street name or names

Your scooter with any street sign (not a traffic sign, a sign showing the street name)
1pt for each letter of each street name on each sign (on same pole) visible in the pic (max 25 pts) Now for some rules…. Suffixes & cardinal directions do not count. South Main St. is 4 points (ST & South do not count) If it is an intersection of two or more streets and the street signs are on the SAME pole, both count. The intersection of Main St. & Johansen Ave = 12 points. Yes you can use a sign at an intersection with more than two streets, but we need to be able to read all the street names in the original photo.

+2 pts if you are in the photo
+1 pt for the first pic in this week

Questions? PM me

Photo must be posted by midnight in YOUR time zone on 4/18/10

PLEASE do your own math & include you point total with your submission!!!!

General Rules for every week:
-Only one photo may be submitted by each member for each week’s subject. (but if you get a better pic later in the week, POST IT with your new points - PLEASE edit your original post note that you posted a better pic and note in the newer post that it is a replacement for a previous pic.
-Old photos you have lying around can NOT be used- they must be NEW photos taken the week the photo subject was posted
-No Photoshop submissions
-Prizes? Eric says YES! At the end of each month the person with the best point totals for the hunts run during that month will get a prize... but this is about bragging rights & all the fun we will have this summer… not just prizes so play along even if you don’t plan on winning
Prize for April: Modern Buddy Patch (priceless) + a Gen U Bin ($39.95 http://shop.scooterdude.us/GEN-U-BIN-G6.htm)

[ScootLemont]

Here are some examples (of course they need a scooter with the signs to qualify)
13 Points


25 points

[ScootLemont]

One other thing... you CAN use honorary street names but you only get to count the street once - this street in chicago is St. James Pl. but it's honorary name is Do not pass go, do not collect $200 Way. so you could count Do not pass go, do not collect $200 and Clark St., but not St James because it is the same street. (although that would be over the 25 point max.)

[SarahJ2001]

My third intersection photo today...finally reach the 25 max points!

+25 street names (Chillicothe and Aurora Industrial)
+2 me in the pic
+1 First photo

Total: 28 points

[ScootLemont]

SarahJ2001
great pic & way to max out the points!

This is a perfect photo to start off the hunt - this is what we are looking for people!

Everyone: - just a FYI - I put a max of 25 points on the letters just to keep it fair in comparison with the first 2 hunts this month... I bet someone might find a couple streets with 40 letters & that would make the first two hunts kind of pointless, from a scoring point of view. Get my point?

[lmyers]

Taking pictures of street signs doesn't really work at night :\

[ScootLemont]

Taking pictures of street signs doesn't really work at night :\

But you get an A for effort

[ScootLemont]

Here are the totals after week 2


This week should be pretty easy so I hope to see lots of new hunters jumping in!

[Syd]

I feel like Wayne and Garth (or probably Beavis and Butt-head is better), but if you say

...hunters jumping...

five times fast, it could end up on the double entendre thread.

[iwabj]

oops

[lmyers]

Before the sun sets with Roxi, the GOOD scoot.

18 for the intersection of Woodward & Cincinnati
2 for me, all(most) geared up

43 for the month



*edited because I don't know how to add

[Milktown]

23 for the letters (Camp McDonald and Burning Bush)
2 for me!

makes 25 this week and 37 total.


p.s. i will be entering all the intersections posted in the pics to google maps just for a bit of fun cyber stalking.

[ScootLemont]

lmyers & milktown - great pics!
& cant wait to see the map

[BootScootin'FireFighter]

North Carolina & Independence....
25 letters plus myself
27points... SAWEEEET!

[BootScootin'FireFighter]

does the North in North Carolina still count since it's part of the state name, or should I find something different?

[ScootLemont]

does the North in North Carolina still count since it's part of the state name, or should I find something different?

Yep it counts... Its the name not direction like north main st.

Great pic

[ScootLemont]

Here I am at the corner of Ledochowski & Sobieski (yep... Polish neighborhood)
19 pts
+ 2 for me in the pic
21 points total

[ScootLemont]

p.s. i will be entering all the intersections posted in the pics to google maps just for a bit of fun cyber stalking.

Where's the map? That would be cool to see

[BootScootin'FireFighter]

how far is Lemont from Chicago? I flew into Midway and just before landing flew over a huge, I mean ginormous rock quarry. So big that there were bridges over it, it looked awesome to ride a scoot around if not for big trucks passing.

[Milktown]

ok, the map is up! feel free to add your intersection as you post your pics.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 076172&z=4

[lmyers]

Here I am at the corner of Ledochowski & Sobieski (yep... Polish neighborhood)
19 pts
+ 2 for me in the pic
21 points total

You need a better photographer! I have a feeling Pope Jowhatever is a lot longer than Sobieski.

[ScootLemont]

yeah... pope john paul II
I used a little tripod and it was in the middle of the street

[lmyers]

oops. What a great photographer!

[cheez37]

My wife at the corner of Old Spanish Trail & William C Harvin

+24 points.

I need a ruling: Does it have to be me in the photo to get the +2, or does my wife count? I won't take the points unless I have positive confirmation that she counts.

[KRUSTYburger]

MASSECHUSSETTS = 14 points
INDEPENDENCE = 12 points

That's the max of 25 points for me!

[KRUSTYburger]

How do you add a marker on the map?

[Milktown]

How do you add a marker on the map?

hmm i tried to set it so anyone can edit the map but i dont know if its working. il just have to keep updating it

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 076172&z=4

[ScootLemont]

how far is Lemont from Chicago? I flew into Midway and just before landing flew over a huge, I mean ginormous rock quarry. So big that there were bridges over it, it looked awesome to ride a scoot around if not for big trucks passing.

Lemont is 20 miles south west of Midway airport
There are lots of quarries around here & yeah... some are HUGE
Lemont was an old quarry town... back in the mid 1800s & early 1900s
Actually the Chicago Water Tower (one of the few buildings to survive the Chicago fire) is built from Lemont Limestone (wikipedia says Joliet limestone but its wrong)
Union Stockyard Gate in Chicago is also built of Lemont Limestone & so is the Old state capitol building in Springfield IL

and now back to the hunt

[ScootLemont]

Milktown - the map rocks!!!!
here is a tinyurl link

http://tinyurl.com/huntmap

maybe we should do a map for the hunt each week.... its cool to see the makers all over the country

Thanks & great idea

[ScootLemont]

MASSECHUSSETTS = 14 points
INDEPENDENCE = 12 points
That's the max of 25 points for me!

Krusty - great to have you back in the hunt!

[ScootLemont]

My wife at the corner of Old Spanish Trail & William C Harvin
+24 points.
I need a ruling: Does it have to be me in the photo to get the +2, or does my wife count? I won't take the points unless I have positive confirmation that she counts.

I hate to ding you for 2 points but..... the rules say
Your Scooter in a photo with a long street name or names
+2 pts if you are in the photo

Now if the scooter is both of your's... you can always enter her & she will get the 2 extra points

Sorry

[Syd]

MASSECHUSSETTS = 14 points
INDEPENDENCE = 12 points

That's the max of 25 points for me!

It's still 25 points if you spell Massechussetts correctly!

[ScootLemont]

Nice catch there "Sid"

[KRUSTYburger]

Heh, I knew something was off, but I was in a hurry... never been there and don't know anyone from there, so why should I know to spell it right? (aside from it being spelled correctly in the picture)

No offense to any of you Massachussetts out there.

[cheez37]

My wife at the corner of Old Spanish Trail & William C Harvin
+24 points.
I need a ruling: Does it have to be me in the photo to get the +2, or does my wife count? I won't take the points unless I have positive confirmation that she counts.

I hate to ding you for 2 points but..... the rules say
Your Scooter in a photo with a long street name or names
+2 pts if you are in the photo

Now if the scooter is both of your's... you can always enter her & she will get the 2 extra points

Sorry

No problem. I didn't count the 2 points anyways.

[Syd]

Did you know that 18 + 16 +2 = 27? Today it does.

I'm at the corner of Brigido Valenzuela and Fortunato Serrano in the Town of Guadalupe, AZ. I believe that gives me 27 for this week and 44 for the month of April.


Here's a link to the location, since the streets in Guadalupe are not usually fully spelled out.

[sotied]

Rain, a bad back and a business trip got in my way last week. Now I'm a billion points behind. But I applaud the great shots last week and this.

Speaking of back - I AM. So here's my effort this week...

That's me in my fashionable ATGATT and Scootle, my faithful steed, is behind me. AS is a street sign for Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue. Remove the Avenues and you get 25 letters.

Total points - 25 for the signs, 2 for me = 27.

TOTAL FOR APRIL = 44

[ScootLemont]

Glad you are back Jeff
great pic

[Milktown]

updated map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 538086&z=5[/url]

[ObjectAgnosia]

Any extra points for finding and taking a picture at an intersection already posted? (with you and your scoot of course)

[ScootLemont]

Any extra points for finding and taking a picture at an intersection already posted? (with you and your scoot of course)

sorry but no
I really try not to add things or change the rules after a hunt starts

but... you will received the admiration of all of your fellow hunters for using the same intersection!

[dakotamouse]

19 letters and 2 for me

Total points 21!

[Quo Vadimus]

Wish I was a) playing and b) back home, which is not far from a certain "Tom, Dick, & Harry Alley"

Someone's got it on their blog...



Yeah, no intersecting sign so it really wouldn't be worth that many points anyway, but still fun!

[dakotamouse]

Yipppeee! I'm on the map!

[ScootLemont]

this week is going great! - hope to see a few more photos posted before midnight!!

Next week's hunt starts now.... Scooters & Bridges
topic14903.html

Hope everyone is having fun!

[brape]

click to embiggen.

20 points wildwood + old reservoir
+2 for me

22 points.

[ScootLemont]

anyone going to post up tonight???

[Milktown]

final map!


http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 076172&z=4

[ScootLemont]

Milktown
thanks for doing that
it was very cool to have the map this week

[ScootLemont]

And here are the totals at the end of week 3


And the map
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