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[[Image:3A 003A.jpg|right|thumb|300px]]From where was this photo taken? I can't figure it out. <span style="font-variant:small-caps; vertical-align:5%; font-family: Georgia,serif; color:#cccccc;">— '''[[User:Dscosson|dscosson]]''' • '''[[User talk:Dcosson|talk]]''' </span> 07:26, 11 July 2010 (CDT)
:Very strange, doesn't correspond with the geography of Pensacola as I ever knew it. It's definitely the late 20s, early 30s judging by the cars. The tall building labeled as American National Bank ''could'' be the back side of what I knew as the Empire Bldg. and at Gov't and Palafox; but that would mean the camera is somewhere in the vicinity of Government St. between Railroad St. and Seville Square, and the big body of water at the right doesn't make sense.
:The lower dark bldg. left of the bank tower would be sitting on Ferdinand Plaza; that doesn't work.
:Also at the far right is an ornate, baroque church looking kind of building, which is not something I recognize. Plus some more baroque/mediterranean looking buildings not as tall, don't recognize either. And if you look dead center in the photograph, beyond the covered street bridge (also nothing I recognize), the tall building in the distance seems to be set at an angle - which again doesn't correspond to Pensacola geography.
:Don't think the water could be the bayfront, as the Empire Bldg. isn't that close to the water.
:Plus there are too many palm trees (?) at the left of the pic to correspond with that area of downtown. I don't think its Pensacola. Mobile, maybe? Jacksonville? Did the Am. Nat'l Bk. have a branch over thereoutside Pensacola? A mystery, for sure. Where did you find this? [[User:Textorus|Textorus]] 02:53, 22 September 2010 (CDT)
