Noir Columbia

* See also Alternate Alternates
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==If Columbia had been done in the late 1930s or 1940s==
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We Coulda had 'Comstock' look like Jack Nicholson in "Chinatown" !!! 
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Noircolumbia2.jpg|Noir Columbia would have Automobiles - CONVENIENCE - Something Columbia's design DID NOT HAVE
Noircolumbia4.jpg|Sloped Streets would have been like all those extraneous Stair/Steps in Rapture
Noircolumbia5.jpg|When you think of it : Columbia was alot of Empty Air
Noircolumbia6.jpg|Apartment Buildings were often called "Hotels" in 'The Old Days'
Noircolumbia7.jpg|Real Buildings meant to accommodate People, and NOT be some artists' game maze path prop
Noircolumbia8.jpg|Shantytown was far worse than THIS
Noircolumbia9.jpg|REAL CITIES are generally 'organic' - developed and changing over many Decades
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Noircolumbia11.jpg|Fire Escapes are a wise thing to have
Noircolumbia12.jpg|H H Holmes would 'feel at home' here ...
Noircolumbia13.jpg|Imagine going up Stairs like THIS in the game ...
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Noircolumbia15.jpg|Hills where the Less Affluent Lived.
Flatpaintedsigns.jpg|Modern-type Buildings started in the 1890. Something "Seeing The Future" might cause to be used ?
Erasigns.jpg|Signs done in the Real World
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Early Artists Concept. A darker/more-creepy Columbia - More the haunt of Vampires and such.
Oh yes, nice 'bright' Columbia was to be the forced image of hypocrisy that Ken Levine sees about America's past. Unfortunately, his illogical sideshow to the Slaughterfest game was feeble and confused in that it lacked in showing any REAL Social Relevancy ( or much Relevance to America at all ).
Cities, you see, are generally anathema to most Cults ( and to many REAL hard-line Religionists ) because cities are too egalitarian, and 'open', and uncontrollable, and too big. Ken & Co should have known THAT if they knew anything or cared to carry through properly on their Religio-Extremist theme properly. But a flying 'small village' isn't as glitzy, and would require better detailing that some over-huge Guilded Age 6th-grade stage-production Failtopia.
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Further Ideas :
* Floating Gangsters 
* Floating Nazis
* Insane Asylum
We could do floating 'Romans' and 'Wild West' too IF we followed the original Star Trek's plot method of using what's available in the Studio props/costume department to cut costs.
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Noir THIS Sucka !!! :
Here's a list of special/detailed scenes/locations in the computer game "LA NOIRE", noting places with interiors - actually pretty limited when you consider the sandbox (exterior) maps include a bulk of Los Angeles in the late 1940s in caricature. ( There's a WIKIA of that game : lanoire.wikia.com ). But the names and types of locations can give ideas for the MMORPG's city expansion far beyond the few corners of Rapture we saw in the games :
* Open Door Church – Behind library (interior)
* Hall of Records – Broadway and 1st (interior)
* Pawnbroker – Main and Third (interior)
* Bus Depot – Los Angeles and 6th (interior)
* Mench’s Bar – Merger of Main and Spring (interior)
* Hotel Bristol – 8th and Olive (interior)
* Levine’s Liquor – Hope St, east of 8th (interior)
* Rawlings Bowling Alley – Grand and Olympic (interior)
* Apartments – 3 blocks north of Broadway, at the east end (interior)
* Hartfields – Broadway and 6th (interior)
* Gas – 9th and Hope (interior)
* Army Surplus – 9th and Hope (interior)
* Gas – Flower and 11th (interior)
* Dewey’s Car Sales – Wilshire and Figueroa (interior)
* Bank – Olive and 9th (interior)
* Just Picked Fruit - Bottom triangle of Los Angeles and Alameda (interior)
* Bank of America – 7th and Olive (interior)
* Cavagna’s Bar – Off Alameda, 4 blocks south near Union Station (interior)
* Union Station - North Alameda Street (interior)
* Gas – Flower and 9th (interior)
* Superior Laundry – At the merger of 1st and 2nd, bottom right triangle (interior)
* Tareldson House – Last right on Lucas, if coming west – 2nd house on right (interior)
* Baron’s Bar – Off of 1st, 2 blocks north of Figueroa (interior)
* Hobo Camp – at the end of Grand (interior)
* Western Union – 2nd and Hill (interior)
* Delgato House – At the east end of Hill, right side (interior)
* Goldberg’s – Main and 2nd (interior)
* Un-built building – across from Goldberg’s (interior)
* Bank of Arcadia #2 – 3rd and Main (interior)
* Bus Depot – Maple and 6th (interior)
* Southern Fried – Alameda and 2nd (interior)
* Warehouse – Alameda and 1st (interior)
* 7th Street Aqueduct – (interior)
* Boo Bro’s – Hill and 6th (interior)
* Southern Fried – Hill and 8th (interior)
* Gas – Olympic and Hill (interior)
* Gas – 11th and Hill (interior)
* Creepy House – 2nd J at the east end of Figueroa (interior)
* Mirror Press Diner – 2nd and Broadway (interior)
* Central Morgue – At east end of Broadway tunnel (interior)
Wilshire
* La Brae Tar Pits – Off San Marino
* Los Angeles Speedway – On Mariposa, Between Rosewood and Melrose
* 1st congressional Church – Hoover and 6th
* Bullocks Wilshire – Wilshire Blvd and Westmoreland St
* Drive In Theatre – Vermont and 4rth
* County Art Museum – Hoover and 8th (interior)
* Diner – Between La Fayette and Rampart on 3rd (interior)
* Bus Station – Union and Beverly (interior)
* Reggie’s – Beverly and New Hampshire (interior)
* Just Picked Fruit – Beverly and Catalina (interior)
* Reggie’s – 1st and Kenmore (interior)
* Engine #32 – Melrose and Vermont (interior)
* Southern Fried – across from Engine #32 (interior)
* Crashed Apartments – On Vermont, next to acme books, between 1st and Council (interior)
* Westlake Savings and Loan – Third and Lucas (interior)
* Reggie’s – 6th and Witmer (interior)
* Southern Fried – on 6th, 3 streets south of Union (interior)
* Reggie’s – Beverly and Kinsley (interior)
* Reggie’s – Westlake and Wilshire (interior)
* Hotel – Garland and 7th (interior)
* Railway Diner – Maplewood and Normande (interior)
* Insta-heat Factory – Beverly and Harvard (interior)
* Leland Monroe’s office – one block east of Melrose and Western (interior)
* Superior Laundry – Melrose and Kingsley (interior)
* California Insurance – 5th and Vermont (interior)
* Reggie’s – across from Cali Insurance (interior)
* Southern Fried – Maplewood and Western (interior)
* Medical Clinic – Oakwood and Vermont (interior)
* Rapid Bug – Vermont and Beverly (interior)
* Nuclear Bug – 3rd and Westmoreland (interior)
* Westlake Pest – 3rd and Union (interior)
* Dr. Fountaine’s House – Reno and 3rd (interior)
* Southern Fried – 7th and Parkview (interior)
* Gas – across from Southern Fried (interior)
* Moller House – Bonnie Brae and Beverly, 3rd on right (interior)
Hollywood
* NBC – Sunset and Vine
* CBS – Sunset and El Centro
* The Palladium – Across from CBS
* Pantages Theatre – Hollywood and Argyle
* The Egyptian Theatre – Hollywood Blvd and Las Palmas
* Hollywood Masonic Temple – Hollywood and Orchid
* Hotel Mark Twain – Across from the Post Office
* Football field/School – Orange and Hawthorne
* Film Studio – Sunset and Bronson
* Rancho Escanino/ Racetrack – Wilton and Fountain
* Miniature Golf – Between Santa Monica and Romaine
* Foundry next to Mini-Golf – Climb building pipe next to it (interior)
* Diner – Melrose and Vermont (interior)
* Tower Records? – Hollywood Blvd and Highland (interior)
* Gulliver’s Travels – Santa Monica, off of Western (interior)
* Joes Diner – Santa Monica and Wilton (interior)
* AO Travel – Behind Joes (interior)
* Reggie’s – El Centro, by Santa Monica (interior)
* Reggie’s – Fountain and Gower (interior)
* Southern Fried – De longpre and El Centro (interior)
* Pink Hotel – Sunset and Salim (interior)
* Joes Diner – Sunset and Cahuenga Blvd (interior)
* Bus Station – Sunset and Las Palmas (interior)
* D’assine – Whitney and Hollywood (interior)
* Building - Sunset and Seaward (interior)
* Layman’s Grill – Hollywood and Wilcox (interior)
* Yellow Hotel – Middle street on the west end of Yucca (interior)
* Robert’s Diner – Sunset and Highline (interior)
* Reggie’s - Middle street off of Cole (interior)
* Bank of Arcadia – El Centro and Santa Monica (interior)
* Bought and Sold – Santa Monica and Bronson (interior)
* Apartments – Ivar and Yucca (interior)
* American Legion Stadium – Cower and Selma (interior)
* Keystone Film – Hawthorne and Hollywood (interior)
* Numbers operation – Sunset and Bronson, behind Joes (interior)
* Joes Diner – Sunset and Bronson (interior)
* Examiner Drugstore – Sunset and Ivar (interior)
* Polar Bear Ice – Hawthorne and Labrea (interior)
* Bob’s Hardware – Sunset and Wilton (interior)
* Southern Fried – Across the street from NBC, behind the buildings (interior)
* Reggie’s – Orange and Lanewood (interior)
* Hotel El Mar – on Vine, 2 blocks south of Sunset (interior)
* Parnell’s Soup Company – Vine and Fountain (interior)
* Aleve Motel – Fountain; between El Centro and Gower (interior)
* Thrifty Liquor – Gower and Santa Monica (interior)
* 111 Club – Hollywood and Carlos (interior)
* Mcombo Club – Hollywood and Sycamore (interior)
* Hollywood Police – De Longpre and Wilcox (interior)
* Hollywood Post Office – Wilcox and Selma (interior)
* Curtis’ Apartment – North end of Mariposa, 2nd house on right (interior)
* Jack Kelso’s Apartment – El Centro and De Longpre (interior)
* Auto Club – El Centro and Santa Monica (interior)
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Creepy Alternate - 'Went to Incest-Ville' 
Booker tries it on with Elizabeth ( A "Chinatown" moment )
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