Where am I - Travel Game II.

ok Izzie, your wish is my command, where am I?

You're in Mexico City, forget the name. Main intersection, reforma at Insurentes? Plaza d'Indepencia? (Have to look)

Yes, that's it.

No, that is not.

Reforma and Florencia/Tíber

Ok, then, you know it, very well.

Sorry for the delay, ISP went offline. Ossobuco I have it as the Independence Monument, "The Angel" , Mexico City. Paseo de la Reforma may help you also. You can post the next picture.

I know the place, but Fbaezer lives it, and knows the streets. Insurgentes is not there, I was just guessing re what zips off of the Reforma at that intersection.

But, give me some minutes to snooker a link.

A grade-schoolmate's grandmother posed for the Angel. Or so was the legend.

And the model for the fountain of Diana the Huntress lives in my same block. She's an old lady, now.

I suppose people have interviewed her.. the model. Interested in gramma... and her life.

You made me look (after the model of the Angel). And it was not a legend!
(For us kids it was kind of kinky to think as somebody's granny posing nekkid!)
The model was Alicia Rivas Mercado, the oldest daughter of the architect Antonio Rivas Mercado, and the president of the foundation that bears the architect's name has the same last names as my grade school-mate, so she must be his sister.
Nothing is publicly known about Alicia's life (her daughter married a Mr. Gargollo, I can tell, for my schoolmate's last names were Gargollo Rivas). Her sister Antonieta was much more famous. A writer and pioneer of feminism in Mexico, who died tragically in Paris, at age 31.


As for the model of Diana, I know a lot about her, but will not go on gossiping online about my neighbors!

Thanks for the interesting information fbaezer.

Stories, stories - a writer and pioneer of feminism in mexico who died tragically in Paris, at 31 ---- a movie, not to be bald about it.

Anyway, I'm an old traveler. I refuse tourist as an appellation. And I like that real sparky lives are therein posed for monuments.

Sorry, that was thoughtless. Lots of lives can be movies, but these people sound interesting and I don't meant to be obnoxious about them.

Meantime, I snuck a photo in between our posts. But.. off to dreamland now.

US?

Dutchy, I'm sorry but I decided that photo is to hard to search, you'd have to know it, I think, to find it. So, I picked another place not far from the first...

and yes, both views are in the US.
Here's the easier one -

California?

Yes, TTH.

A movie, you dare say?
It's been done (but I haven't seen it):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083567/