Casablanca - Answer

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GSV please of any of these please! 

Clues later.

nice find!

there are like 1 billion such places named like that, whoa!?

The paint job is improved from the side street view vs this view!

Well done Alchemist, ndrqu, Krenek and Utapao

Jun 22, 2015 19:11:00 GMT krenek said:

there are like 1 billion such places named like that, whoa!?

Yes krenek there are billion such named places; that's why I had purposely defaced only partially the sign there. The keyword is still legible and this is a hint/clue for others!

Jun 30, 2015 6:12:18 GMT CuriousJM said:

Well done Alchemist, ndrqu, Krenek and Utapao

Jun 22, 2015 19:11:00 GMT krenek said:

there are like 1 billion such places named like that, whoa!?

Yes krenek there are billion such named places; that's why I had purposely defaced only partially the sign there. The keyword is still legible and this is a hint/clue for others!

I saw the word the first time but it didn't help much I'm afraid. 

Jun 30, 2015 15:12:03 GMT johnluke said:

Jun 30, 2015 6:12:18 GMT CuriousJM said:

Well done Alchemist, ndrqu, Krenek and Utapao
Yes krenek there are billion such named places; that's why I had purposely defaced only partially the sign there. The keyword is still legible and this is a hint/clue for others!

I saw the word the first time but it didn't help much I'm afraid. 

JL I checked. Unfortunately google.fr is showing the answer on page 3 whereas google.com is showing it on page 1 itself. May be you should try google.com. Of course you will have to use the right key words!

Jun 30, 2015 15:32:52 GMT CuriousJM said:

Jun 30, 2015 15:12:03 GMT johnluke said:

I saw the word the first time but it didn't help much I'm afraid. 

JL I checked. Unfortunately google.fr is showing the answer on page 3 whereas google.com is showing it on page 1 itself. May be you should try google.com. Of course you will have to use the right key words!

I may not have the right keywords then. But I would be surprised. Do you mean google images by the way? 

Anyway I won't look into this again until you have given the solution for this .   

Jun 30, 2015 17:49:39 GMT johnluke said:

I may not have the right keywords then. But I would be surprised. Do you mean google images by the way? 

Anyway I won't look into this again until you have given the solution for this .   

No JL I don't mean Google Image Search. I meant the google.com web search and one of the keyword is;

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What we retired people get every month. I was surprised to note that in that country and some other countries it also has some other meanings.

Jun 30, 2015 17:55:45 GMT CuriousJM said:

Jun 30, 2015 17:49:39 GMT johnluke said:

I may not have the right keywords then. But I would be surprised. Do you mean google images by the way? 

Anyway I won't look into this again until you have given the solution for this .   

No JL I don't mean Google Image Search. I meant the google.com web search and one of the keyword is;

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What we retired people get every month. I was surprised to note that in that country and some other countries it also has some other meanings.

Well, on my google.com it was on page 6 (finally!). First I had to check many other such places bearing the same name, because no image. 


The word you mean is the word I saw when you first posted the puzzle, no problem there. The real problem is when a building like this one has the name of a city, the results in Google are mainly related to the city... 


The word in French (8 centuries old at least) has many meanings and uses, and the meaning in English is only one of those meanings (as often happens when a word crosses over to another language). The common idea to all those meanings is "paying", since that the origin of the word, and mainly "giving a sum of money on a regular basis", hence the name of those places, where you could rent rooms by the week for example (as opposed to day by day hotels). 

Jul 1, 2015 14:33:51 GMT johnluke said:

Well, on my google.com it was on page 6 (finally!). First I had to check many other such places bearing the same name, because no image. 

The word you mean is the word I saw when you first posted the puzzle, no problem there. The real problem is when a building like this one has the name of a city, the results in Google are mainly related to the city... 

The word in French (8 centuries old at least) has many meanings and uses, and the meaning in English is only one of those meanings (as often happens when a word crosses over to another language). The common idea to all those meanings is "paying", since that the origin of the word, and mainly "giving a sum of money on a regular basis", hence the name of those places, where you could rent rooms by the week for example (as opposed to day by day hotels). 

JL, I don't know why google is impartial to you. I tried google.com, goole.fr, google.co.in with google sign in, without sign in and with sign in by another account and I was getting the results either on page 1 or page 2. (Yesterday google.fr was giving the result on page 3). Any way I am happy you have found it.

Any more takers before I close this?

Thanks !

JL, I don't know why google is impartial to you. 

I've been wondering if this may be due to Google knowing my location. I've noticed many results have a lot to do with flights from my area etc. 

Well done all.

The location can be seen in this GSV

The keywords to search are;

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Casablanca Pension. If one is lucky the result will be on page 1 else like johnluke it may go up to page 6. 

Actual location is Leostraße, Leipzig, Germany