Topic: Solved: Where the streets have no name

[Allemano]

#7 is Garland Jeffreys resp. his hit-single "Take me to the Matador" which leads to a group puzzle with the same name. #K shows the Tempo factory in Hamburg-Harburg. (adress: Zum Fürstenmoor?)

Here's a pic of the same location:

[Wendax]

#7 is Garland Jeffreys resp. his hit-single "Take me to the Matador" which leads to a group puzzle with the same name. #K shows the Tempo factory in Hamburg-Harburg. (adress: Zum Fürstenmoor?)

That is the right combination. The street is not correct though as your card shows the location where Tempo had its first factory when they moved to Hamburg-Harburg in the 1930s. That one is demolished and a technology park by now. But they expanded soon and had a second factory nearby which still exists as an automotive factory. Locked for you.

[Allemano]

Most likely you mean that factory which was used by Daimler-Benz later. It should be Mercedesstraße 1, then.

[Wendax]

Most likely you mean that factory which was used by Daimler-Benz later.

Yes

It should be Mercedesstraße 1, then.

No

[Allemano]

Ellernweg?

[Allemano]

Am Radeland?

[Wendax]

Ellernweg?

No

[Wendax]

Am Radeland?

Yes.

That leaves one final combination, but where is it and why?

[Wendax]

The last street missing its name is Street B. The puzzle picture shows the street. Meanwhile I noticed that I had a wrong house number. As an additional help I add a picture of the actual place in that street we are looking for:

[Tom_I]

Ah, that's been a great help.

I was already looking around the right village on Street View, but hadn't found the right road. The roofline of the building made it much easier.

The last group puzzle is No Name 6, Cold as Ice (Foreigner, 1977).

One of the vehicles featured was the French-made Buffalo Buggy. I had found that this was produced in Sundhouse in Alsace, and Street B is Rue de la Potence in Sundhouse.

[Wendax]

Ah, that's been a great help.

I was already looking around the right village on Street View, but hadn't found the right road. The roofline of the building made it much easier.

The last group puzzle is No Name 6, Cold as Ice (Foreigner, 1977).

One of the vehicles featured was the French-made Buffalo Buggy. I had found that this was produced in Sundhouse in Alsace, and Street B is Rue de la Potence in Sundhouse.

I hope you had a nice time in virtual Sundhouse. 
You are absolutely right with your post. Well done!


And here are the final results:
Allemano: 1 point
pnegyesi: 5 points
Tom_I: 8 points

I hope you had as much fun as I did when I was looking for the potential puzzle places. Maybe this idea can be exploited for another puzzle again some day.

[pnegyesi]

This was a fascinating puzzle!!! Did you plan this way for over 2 years?

[Wendax]

I know that I could immensely impress (or frighten) you if I said "Yes, all this follows a big masterplan!" 
But in fact, the title for my first group puzzle came to my mind by chance, and then I liked the idea of songs as titles for group puzzles. When some time ago I tried the idea of making a car history related house a puzzle (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=22862.0) and saw that it worked, I thought about a group puzzle following that scheme. Then the bits fitted together and resulted in this nice puzzle.

[Tom_I]

Thank you - that was a really good puzzle, ingeniously planned. I found it very absorbing and enjoyable, as you have probably gathered.

It was quite tough, and I probably spent more time on it than I should have, but it was not so impossibly difficult that I felt like giving up.

So congratulations from me - a fine puzzle and a worthy celebration of your remarkable 1000 point total! 

[Allemano]

To solve this puzzle I think we have to look back to some earlier puzzles by Wendax, many of which had titles which I, for one, failed to see the significance of at the time.

But on a first look through, I recognised Street F, as I managed to identify it in a group puzzle a while back. It’s Avenue d’Ivry in Paris, and the building is the former Panhard car factory. The puzzle also included a number of beaches to identify, and in this case one of the cars made at the factory was the twin-engined Citroën 2CV Safari, an example of which was the first car to be driven to the top of the Dune du Pyla in south west France.

The title of the puzzle was Vamos a la Playa (Let’s go to the Beach), and that links to No Name 4, which is the cover artwork for Righeira’s 1983 single of the same name.

I again have to pull off my hat for this brilliant example of detective work. All those who followed after reading this post had a much easier job to do, so I guess it deserves a bit more than one point, but as always that's in the hands of the author of the puzzle.

[Tom_I]

It was just luck, really. I recognised the Panhard factory as soon as I saw it, as I had identified it in the earlier puzzle. Having revisited that, a bit of Googling made things fall into place. Without that initial recognition, I might not have found the key to the puzzle.