1st & 10 on the 40
In vicinity of 60th Street (North Long Beach) there is a football field that is partially lined/marked. Nearby is route 91 (9 + 1 = 10; which also be reduced to 1 or produce 1st & 10th). On that football field are marks for the 50-yard line to endzone – running toward or in the direction of the shoreline.
50-yards to end zone.
from one end zone to halfway line = 50 yards
from end zone to 40-to-goal = 60 yards
60 yards from top end zone is 40 yards from bottom end zone.
Inside the photo frame are many other football fields and most of these are well-marked as well as situated on some version of 1st and 10th.
This one is about midway up the Q image, that is, 50-60 % from top or bottom edges.
One of the most interesting "1st & 10th" is close to the shoreline, Long Beach side of the photo, where 1st Street intersects with Termino Avenue – which is the 40th place. Next to this intersection is 39th Place and Midway. This location is the approximate left edge of the Q image.
A short distance away is a park area that includes one of the well-marked football fields. It is on the end of 10th Street. That street turns into a street of a different name which bends to CA-1. That is 1st & 10th. Where the park borders CA-1 is hole 10 of a golf course. About 40 -to yards from the hole.
Follow CA-1 from the right edge of the Q image and it takes you to the traffic circle where Route 19 intersects and then runs up the image area and through the Long Beach Airport and beyond. Seemingly pointing toward Downtown LA which is in the Q image but up near the horizon. On the left edge of the photo is Route 110 which runs across Downtown LA where there are turn-offs such as Olympic Blvd which is the tenth street (used to be 10th) which intersects with Flower Street. The Standard Hotel is on the corner of 6th and Flower in Block 500 of Flower Street. The address is 550 (5 + 5 + 0 = 10; can be reduced to 1; so 1st & 10). On the other side of Route 110 is another football field – this one is home to pro team and in the Google images it is under construction. Yeap, under construction. So the field is not marked. This one, natch, is in a stadium that will accomodate a very large audience.
Given the orientation of the camera and what is in frame, all of these data points emphasize multiple ways to resolve 1st & 10 and only a few ways to resolve "on the 40". At or in the vicinity of where the aircraft was when the Q photo was taken is the 40th line of Latitude. On the 40.
There is a mysterious undersea structure in the Google images and if you find that you will find the approximate location of where the aircraft was for that Q photo. Over a mystery. Just under the surface. Watch the water?
Godspeed Anons.
>Given the orientation of the camera and what is in frame, all of these data points emphasize multiple ways to resolve 1st & 10 and only a few ways to resolve "on the 40". At or in the vicinity of where the aircraft was when the Q photo was taken is the 40th line of Latitude. On the 40.
Of course, each football field has a 40 yard line so each can resolve "on the 40".
Here is a pic of a portion of a historical map of downtown LA and it shows 10th Street – between 9th and 11th , natch.
The "1st" in "1st and 10" could be resolved as "The First". The first of what? The first mention of Long Beach Port? The first Q post that pointed directly at The Standard Hotel as well as Long Beach Port – yes, the actual phrase even if it is not how locals refer to that port.
'''There are news articles in which the Port of Long Beach has been referred to as the "Long Beach port" (lowercase p) and the "Long Beach seaport". So given the Q post that used the phrase, Long Beach Port, and given these usages in news articles in foreign sources, might not this point at non-local connexion with the Port of Long Beach?
And given the historical map of Downtown LA, prior to The Standard Hotel, prior to the football stadium which is located nearby, There may be moar firsts and tens than what we find in current Google maps and Google Earth.
So, expanded thinking means look beyond Google and the usual suspects?"