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Where in the World is Gumbo #32: Solved!

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Gumbo's gone from France, where he visited an 11th-century church in Vernon. He's here, now: at the corner of Pleasant and Ordinary...except for that puzzling object. Your task, hopefully not an Impossible Mission, is to collaborate with your fellow guessers and figure out just where Gumbo is.

 

To repeat the rules: Share your suggestions, hints and discussions with others by posting them here as comments...but if you absolutely know where it is....please give others a couple of days to work on it before you pounce. If the answer is burning your fingers, e-mail it to suggestions@travelgumbo.com and we'll publish it Monday night...right or wrong!

 

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So, where is Gumbo today?

 

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Streetview shows the building, The Royal British Society of Sculptors, but the object is gone.  It certainly does look like a mine, and while Mac sounds sure, despite it being politely presented as a question, I'd be disappointed if a society of sculptors would just drop a piece of "found" material by their doorstep without using it as a basis for further artistic exploration.

I was a little concerned that this one wouldn't last...and it hasn't. But the conjunction of the pleasant South Ken streetscape with the seemingly abandoned mine was not to be resisted.

 

However, the mine is in its way less incongruous than it might seem, if compared to the view today, ten years after I made this picture. The mine is gone, but look at the neighbor to the right in this 2012 Google Maps clip:

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