Help! I’m addicted. Anyone else? Exploring Dublin in Google Maps has become the new lunch time hobby of just about everyone in seems. Blurred out election posters and bus ads are just some of the gems in there, you can read graffiti long gone too. Jaycarax booted up some gems earlier on, and friends are reporting sightings of family pets and indeed family members all over the county.
I’ve spent the last hour or so looking at some long gone graffiti and businesses for example. Look at the site of The Workman’s Club on the quays, or hop up to The Bernard Shaw and see what art was on the walls around it. Looking at your own house is an obvious one, and probably the first thing everyone does. The shots of Dublin are from 2009 (A friend told me this recently, but to make sure I popped up to the Guinness Brewery and had a look at the front signage) and so much can change in a year.
Lithuania Rules, just beyond Lower Liffey Street, is still there.
Below image spotted by JayCarax.
Darndale
Knock yourselves out over on Google.ie.
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Must be an automatic face recognition airbrush. Wonderful. Also explains why the bums had to be airbrushed manually.
The bus ad and the election poster remind me of the time when certain CIA files were reviewed and were found to contain newspaper cuttings marked SECRET. I underestand the mentality and it is scary.
@Donal
That Guinness Gate idea was a stroke of genius.