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From the imagination of the late Scott Saylors, and the designs of Patrick Wilson for Studio 33
Productions, comes Mean Streets, the first comprehensive effort to provide Gangster, Pulp Fiction, Sci-Fi
and Horror gamers with the period urban environment crucial to their miniatures scenarios. Rules and figures for these
have come and gone, but never before have the city streets, buildings, sidewalks, alleys, etc, so vital to the look and
success of these games been available with such comprehensive detail and affordability.
Mean Streets is a range of full color, self-assembly building models
to be printed on card stock Block Sections in 1:60 scale (28mm), uniformly 10" square, though of variable height. Created
using photographic textures and architectural features proper for the period of around 1920 to about 1950, the buildings have
a look that can hardly be equaled in any other medium, and for far less cost, time, and effort. Each Block Section represents
all walls and roofs of one or more buildings along one street side, then around the corners to the opposite side facing the
next street. Four Block Sections may be fitted into a standardized Full Block of 56" length and 14" width (including one 2"
alley between each building, and a central alley 4" wide, with 2" wide sidewalks all around). Each Block Section may be
bought separately, as may street surfaces, sidewalks, and much more, for those wishing the maximum variety in their own layouts.
The following Layout Schematic shows how to fit basic parts of the project together, but only hints at
what can be done with the Block Sections and various accessories.
Only scissors, a craft or box knife, white glue, standard
3/16" (5mm) foam board or MDF, and optional
heavy matte board, are required to build each Block Section into a permanent gaming accessory that will provide years of
service for a fraction of the cost of other materials. Light weight but durable, a Mean Streets layout
is easily transported to games and even conventions. No painting is required, and
buildings come with their own
signage, advertising art, and authentic period posters (especially the Movie and Burlesque theaters).
Most sides of each assembled Block Section may be seen via the photographs below. The Block Sections are listed with full
particulars, though some are shown with Optional Rooftop Sheds, Water Towers, etc, which are available
in a separate "Rooftop Structures" set.
Every item in Mean Streets has undergone a nearly total revision--some more
than one!--with the emphasis on new and ever superior graphics, as well as simpler assembly. There may be some visual
differences between the photographs of these prototype constructions and the product actually received, but the changes are
all for the better. All photos which appear are of the new re-designs. TVAG also wishes to credit Messrs. Barry Cadwgan, Jon Lundberg, Patrick Connor,
Brian
Weathersby, Alan Lockhart, and Glen Allison for their contributions as test assemblers and photographers--Thank You, Gentlemen!
All portions of Mean Streets are provided as PDF's for self-printing. If
you buy multiple PDF's, or the "Whole Town Deal",
significant discounts are offered. When purchasing directly via our Shopping Cart,the
option for "A4" or "Letter" sized formats via the drop-down menus is provided. Files are delivered via E-mail through the
service
"Transfer Big Files Free" as soon as the order is processed, eliminating postage costs for even greater savings.
ALL
BLOCK SECTION PDF'S ARE $10.00 Each
The List of Currently Available Block Sections and Components for
Mean Streets.
Full details of businesses and features in each
Block Section appear with their photos via these links.
Chinatown and Jewish Businesses!
The Slums
"Mean Streets" Components
(Sets Priced Individually)
The Block Sections
Block Section #1-- Consisting of The Diamond Ace, a Members Only Club featuring fine
dining, dancing, good music, and... entertainments. This Building is 6.25" high, and the SMC Cartage Co. Garage & Lot
(4" high), and the Carlington Hotel, which the charitable would call a "flop house" (7.5" high with 1.5" tall Roof Access
hed on top). On the Carlington's ground floor, Mr. Farouk operates his Tobacco Shop where you can meet some of the most
interesting people--especially very late at night. The SMC Cartage Company is authentically modeled on the site of the
infamous "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" of 1929 (note the actual photo for comparison).
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian Weathersby.)
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Block Section #2-- Consisting of Anastasio's Apartments,
None Finer Diner, Manzarelli's Market, Helth Ice Co., AAA Best Shoe Shop, Sbabaro's Funeral Home, and Scott's News Stand
(all 5.75" high, except the Shoe Shop at 4.25" and the News Stand at 2"). The News Stand comes complete with newspapers in
racks on the back wall and actual period "Spicy" Pulp Magazines on the counter and sidewalls. Manzarelli's Market
is on the ground floor, while those above contain "Rooms To Let," the offices of "Antonio Falco, Attorney at Law," and
Medium "Madame Gazonga's" Seance Room (very popular with the Ladies since Valentino went over). Sbabaro's is also
accurately modeled after the actual building (note the photo) which was the site of Chicago's most famous Gangland Funerals--
one of the few places where the Underworld Elite could meet on neutral turf--and give each other "The Look."
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian
Weathersby.)
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Block Section #3-- Consisting of the Biograph Movie
Theater (6" high), Mom & Pop Lepke's Market and Delicatessen, The Central Bus Terminal, and the 33rd Precinct Station. The
Theater comes with a huge selection of authentic movie posters ready to hang out front, in the lobby and to put on the marquee.
Lepke's windows are full of goodies, and just the place for a bag of sandwiches on long stake out nights. The very Art Deco
Central Bus Terminal is a great place to drift into town from--or get out of quickly. The "The Green Light Hotel" gives
your Police a place quickly to run in a suspect for some 3rd Degree "question and answer" games, and for other characters
a room for the night. Buildings come with separate signs and advertisements.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian Weathersby.)
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Block Section #4-- The Gaiety Theater (4.5" high at
front, 7.5" at rear) occupies an entire Block Section and includes the blue tile for the lobby. An old fashioned House of
Burlesque, it comes complete with period posters to hang, and even the Stage Door for that rendezvous with Trixie LaFleche
after the last show.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Scott Colby.)
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Block Section #5-- The Acme Warehouse (7" high
at front, 3" at rear) occupies an entire Block Section. Tall front section with sloped rear roof and loading bay, this is
the perfect, innocent looking place to hide everything from your illegal Brewery to Fu Manchu's Electrostatic Krebulator/
Cthulhoid Cult Temple/Shirley Temple Fan Club, or other sites of unspeakable horror!
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Patrick Connor.)
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Block Section #6--Police HQ & Central Fire Station (6"
high all round) share a Block Section back-to-back. These three story buildings indicate entrances for Police Headquarters,
Central Booking, Prisoner Transfer (a likely location for some nasty scenes), the Fire Marshall's Office, as well
bays for Fire Trucks. No layout is complete without these, for if you're going to have crime, you've got to have a place
for the Cops to eat donuts!
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Patrick Conner.)
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Block Section #7-- Perfect for fronting on the
Levee/Riverfront, this Block has the Harbor Master's Office next to the large Fish Market, a Waterman's flop house (the
Backwater Inn), the Uranium Steamship Company's Offices, and the "Joe Hill" Union Hall for the Local Dock Workers Union,
as well as district HQ for the International Workers of the World (I.W.W.). Between agitating Socialists on the one hand,
and Mob attempts to control Labor Unions on the other, all kinds of action can be played out here. The Block is just
under 6" high all around, though the Inn has a slightly higher gabled roof.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Glen Allison.)
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Block Section #8-- Federal Building & Police Garage
also share this Block Section back-to-back. The Police Garage and Dispatcher's Office is 5" high, while the Federal Building
(with Post Office) stands 7" high. The FBI, Federal Attorney, and Revenue Agents would all have their offices here. The Police
Garage is where all Patrol Cars, "Paddy Wagons," and Motorcycle Patrols would be centrally located, ready to come barreling
out the doors and screaming onto the streets--just like in the movies!
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Glen Allison.)
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Block Section #9-- Light Industry & Warehouses are found
here. Earl's Automobile and Truck Repair garage is next door to Kreplach's (makers of Barrels, Boxes, and Bottles with all kinds
of uses), and behind them are Kleinmann's Dry Storage, and Anselmi's & Scalise's Storage warehouse. Earl's side of the Block is
5" high, but the two Storage buildings are 7.5" high. All have multiple entrances and make for a particularly tough looking
part of town.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Patrick Connor.)
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Block Section #10-- A block of Shops featuring
"O'Banion & Schofield's Flower Shop" where "Deanie" O'Banion ran the North Side Gang of Chicago (until business took a turn
for the worse for him there one day), and "Sports Incorporated," where upstanding merchant Peter von Frantzius kept the Capone
Mob armed with the latest in high powered weaponry. Other shops include the Law Offices of "Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe," "Tip Top
Barbershop," and "Sterlington's: Gems, Gold, & Jewelry." A mix of upscale and working man's services, this block can be in
the busy heart of any city.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian Weathersby.)
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Block Section 11--Chicago's own Holy Name Cathedral, outside
of which Hymie "The Pole" Weiss and his party were shot down (leaving bullet holes in the wall for years after), "Mean Streets"
now has its own place of worship for your Irish, Polish, and Italian Businessmen to attend. An imposing structure, among the
tallest in town, it has broad front steps for your bullet riddled worshipping convenience. Remember Cagney's end in
The Roaring Twenties?--"He used to be a Big Shot." Well, now you can take your own shot at last minute Salvation!
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Block Section 12-- Mama Lagano's Italian Restaurant
is here, the perfect place for a great last meal before seeing that someone else has his last meal. The upscale Barton Arms
Apartments are a good place for the upwardly mobile hoodlum to hang his hat--or for an honest Police Detective, too. Of course
every City needs its own Mission House/Soup Kitchen for those down-and-outers passing through--and for a public relations
conscious Gang Leader conspicuously to support. And, given the number of derelicts on this side of the block, a Derelict
Building for them to hang their hats... if they haven't already hocked them.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian
Weathersby. )
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Block Section 13--Central Park-- A peaceful island
of grass, and even trees and shrubs, in a brick and concrete sea. Just the place to go for a walk after lunch, flirt with
the young Nanny pushing the baby carriage, drop the ransom money in a bag under the big oak tree, or simply find the
deceased in a garbage can with a canary in his mouth.
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Block Section 14--The Court House-- When Cops on the
"Pad" can't keep you out of the Law's reach, this is where you'll spend some quality time with your Lawyer. Lots of things
can go wrong here as prisoners are moved back and forth from here to the City Jail. The architect has thoughtfully provided
wide open steps for clear fields of fire.
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian Weathersby.)
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Block Section 15--THE NEW First National Bank Building--
Why did Willie "The Actor" Sutton rob banks? "Because that's where the money is!," he deftly observed. And now your layout
has a prime target for your Bank Robbing Public Enemies.
But now "Mean Steets" has its first "Skyscraper!" Fully 26" tall on a standard 10" base, this Art Deco symbol of progress
and prosperity represents some 12 stories in actual height, dominating the City Center. It has enough high-rent office space
for any business, organization, and service the city would need--even space for lawyers and P.I.'s to hang their shingles.
And next time Carl Denham brings another "Wonder of the World" to town, it has a convenient place hang out until the Goshawk
fighter planes come round to entertain all parties involved!
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian
Weathersby.)
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Block Section 16--Hotel Metropole-- The "swankiest" place
in town to keep important guests to appear before the Grand Jury. There's an eatery in there that's the cat's pyjamas--if
that's your idea of a good meal. Top Floor Penthouses are just the ticket for your Gang Bosses' Home away from Home. One
of the best views of the city from up on that roof....
(Display Model Constructed and Photographed by Brian
Weathersby.)
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CHINATOWN! Is there a more mysterious, even alien, neighborhood in any City? Go from
the Irish, to the Italian, to the Jewish, the German, the Greek, or any other part of town, and you'll get by in business,
crime, and police work about the same. But enter Chinatown and all bets are off! Here, the different family Tongs
("associations") take care of their members and affiliates, supporting them and their enterprises--legal or not. Your
enemy is the Tong's enemy, and keeping order and control of their own is done quietly--whenever possible--and always quickly.
Anything can happen here, and you'd never know if it was about to happen to you until too late.
There is much to do and see here, most of it legal. But if crime and vice are your business, opium dens,
houses of ill fame, smuggling, human trafficking, protection rackets, and even darker enterprises, are all grist for your mill.
All the Block Sections of Chinatown come with authentic Mandarin signage for the various businesses, as
well as advertising posters for a wide range of Asian products, and hanging flags and banners with more information for the
discriminating shopper. All have many fully 3D features, including inset doorways, and even partial interiors to be viewed
from outside. Each Block contains authentic features found in a wide variety of "Chinatowns," both social and architectural.
There is a total of 60 linear inches of Chinese shops/spaces available along the front and sides of all four Block Sections,
enough to keep your town hopping and mysterious for years.
Take the tour any day--but go after dark, and you're on your own!
Block Section 17-- The first block side of the district containing
the "Very Clean Laundry" which does wonderful work removing stains--of all kinds!--and even some great fabric repairs, cuts
and small holes their specialty. Next door is the "Happy Dragon Movie Theater," which shows the latest in Asian Cinema, with
room upstairs for... other entertainments. Then comes the "Celestial Good Food" Restaurant where you can get Cantonese,
Szechuan, beaten, and garrotted. Wow! These cooks can make a great soup out of anything!
Note that the Laundry is designed to permit a view inside, and the Theater Lobby is large with a detailed
view of the Lobby. The Gables above each building are authentic Chinese Architectural "Earth Elemental" designs.
Just around the corner, you can find "Greenbaum & Meyer, Harberdashers" where you can get all kinds fabric,
expert tailoring, and a great nosh with tea while your suit is being perfectly fitted
(concealed shoulder-holsters require expertly cut cloth). Next door are the Law Offices of "Silberman, Gertz, Levy, & O'Doul." Here they share the professional
ethics of their practice, meaning they are devoted to knowing the law, collecting the facts, all while waiting for
your check to clear. And, almost hidden between them, and up a short flight of steps, are the Medical Offices of Dr. Baruch
Goldman. While a "GP," he has a way with gunshots, knife wounds, cracked heads, and prickly heat. He even makes alley calls!
After dark, just the ring the bell for service....
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Block Section 18--Chinatown 2, Ethnic Businesses 2--The second
Chinese Block face has three other staples for its inhabitants. A Joss House (a place of worship without any regular priest
or "staff," open to the public at any time for prayers and even brief lodging), a block of apartments, and a Grocery. You'll
notice that the Apartment stairway is open, and it is possible to look into the Grocery and see the friendly staff! Around the
far corner, there is a traditional Chinese Herbalist with the most remarkable medicines and other... "feel good" nostrums.
The locals swear by them. Even the dead ones, if you get the chance to ask.
Around the corner on the other side of the block you can find "Goldberg's Kosher Delicatessen" where any
good Jewish Mobster can get a proper Gefilte Fish, and the Two-Cents-Plain. And when you don't have the price of a good nosh,
you can always go around the corner to "Lipschitz Pawn & Loan" and trade in your old Railroad Watch for a buck. Need a quick
change of clothes? Have some "ice" you need out of your hands? Need a nice "cold" roscoe to replace your old "hot" one?
You name the deal, and Lipschitz will make you an offer. Take it or leave it....
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Block Section 19--Chinatown 3, The Cotton Club-- Next in
Chinatown is a particularly crowded block! On the Chinese side, you'll find the shop of "Dr. Liu Wang Cheung, Chinese Medicine." Accupuncture, Zodiacal Diagnoses, and specialist treatments of all kinds can be gotten here.
A good man to know after the Tong's having been romping with each other! Next door is the office of the local "Chinatown
Daily News," that keeps the neighborhood players straight from day to day, and prints news from the Mainland with
its government contacts. On the side, they can print just about anything you might need, from new wedding invitations, to
ID papers or a convincing fake treasure map. Of importance to many with contacts back in China, the "China Light Methodist
Missionary Service" can help arrange getting people into the U.S.--and some others back home. Gosh, it seems they have some
remarkable contacts everywhere! Then comes the largest building in Chinatown, the offices and warehouse space of the
"Fung Import-Export Business." Three stories of space for some of the most valuable items to come in and out of the City. And
what a neat top floor! You can't see in, and just about anything could be going on up there. The Fung Family has
done well, and operates a particularly active Tong. Its Headquarters occupy the second floor of the building with a nice
balcony for watching what goes on in the streets below. And, finally, around the far corner is the "Li Family Fortune Cookie
Factory," if for no other reason than you can finally have a scenario that starts with a message reading, "Help! I'm being held
prisoner in a Fortune Cookie Factory!"
Enough Chinatown fun for years in just one block section! But wait! There's MORE to THIS block!
On the other side is, at last, The Cotton Club. Painstakingly modeled on the actual night club
of history and legend, this is one spot where your Gangsters, P.I.'s, Cops and G-men can go for the best Jazz talent anywhere,
anytime! As you can see from the photos, the rest of this block side has the actual businesses that bracketed the Club.
Authentic large signs with some of the actual acts and attractions flank the meticulously modeled Cotton Club marquee. For
sheer period feel and another touch of history, this Block Section is a must for any size layout.
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Block Section 20--Chinatown 4, Dreamland-- The last (?) Block
Section of Chinatown contains several local businesses in a nest of separate buildings, with enough back alley space to hide
a war in. From left to right, the "Chinese Fresh Seafood Shop" has all manner of interesting ... things in tanks for your
dining pleasure. "Patrick's Rice Paper Factory" is a useful industry in Chinatown, if not as entertaining as the now derelict
"Happy Lucky Firecracker Factory" that blew-up under mysterious circumstances not long ago. Note the authentic--if too
appropriate--"Fire Elemental" gable at the front.
But on the opposite side of the block is another night time hotspot, "Dreamland," the town's
premier Ball Room. A live orchestra in an Art Deco building is the home of the best "Ten Cents A Dance" girls in town. Couples
show up here every night, but the weekends are really jumpin'! Conveniently enough, the same building provides space
for "Bookers Tobacco Shop" and "Ruby's Flowers," both of which see good business from folks coming in and out of "Dreamland."
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Block Section 28--Dullard's Department Store --
The largest and oldest Department Store in the city. The Dullard family has operated this enterprise through three
generations to the present, and has never sold anything but for hard cash. Their unadvertised motto is "Credit Cheerfully
Refused," and it has always been true--except for the "cheerful" part. Their buying power gives them an unfair advantage
over most small retailers, and their rapacious practices have kept them profitable, if not popular.
Given the family's archly conservative views and practices, it seems odd to not a few that the only renter of space
in the building is the Kit Kat Klub, the swankiest and hottest Jazz Night Club in town. Only the very best acts perform here,
and the city's high rollers come for the first class food, drink, and entertainment. These include the flashiest and most
notorious gangsters--even rivals--who (usually) observe an unofficial truce when they bring their women and associates.
And, though it's one of the city's open secrets, it appears that high stakes gambling is available on site--somewhere--as well.
Model and photos courtesy of Mr. Glen Allison
(Owners
of the Kit Kat Klub interior as part of "Mean Sets" will recognize
that its exterior front wall is identical to that shown here in the full
context of the building it is located in.)
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Levee, Streets, Alleys, Sidewalks,
Streetcars And Tracks,
Roof Top Structures, & Graphics Sets
No city layout can be complete without these. With the Streetcar and Track sections, you
can now add Public Transportation to your layout, a classic icon of City life in this era. Using more photographic textures,
a variety of materials may be chosen from to provide your layout with its own distinct character: Brick Streets and Sidewalks
for the older portions of town, concrete and asphalt for the more recent. Similarly, what are "Mean Streets" without those
dark Alleys for quick escapes--or ugly surprises found in the morning?
Levee/Riverfront Section--Smuggled Booze and other cargoes have to come into the city by
water as often by land, and here is the way to incorporate this vital terrain into your layout. Each Section comes with enough
material to represent 20" each of Seawall, water (out to a distance of 8" from its base), and asphalt topped Brick Street
running parallel to it. One Ramp and 6" long Pier is included as well. This distance represents the same width of one Full
Block plus 6" of Street to one side of it. Thus, for the entire Layout as pictured (above), 3 Levee/Riverfront Sections
would provide the full 5.5" necessary to make one end of front the Sea or River.
PDF: $10.00
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Streets
Each Street Set consists of 4 10" long pieces, 6" wide, enough length to provide a street for one side
of a Full Block of four Block Sections, with a bit more to spare. Also, there is a 10" x 8" section of Intersection
between Full Blocks and other Streets. Each Street piece has a center traffic stripe, and each set has two lengths with manholes
(which should each be separated by at least one length without one) to provide one more place to flee when the action gets too
hot!
Each PDF: $8.00
Street Set #1-- Asphalt (Began to come into use by the 1930's)
Street Set #2-- Concrete (Common from the 1920's on)
Street Set #3-- Brick #1 (Most common prior to 1920)
Street Set #4-- Brick #2 (Most common prior to 1920)
Street Set #5-- Cobblestone (Most common prior to 1900 in the Eastern US, but universal throughout Europe)
Street Set #6-- Old Concrete (Pre-1930)
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Alleys --
NEW FEATURES!
Alleys, like Streets, come in a variety of textures, with gratings and manholes, as shown below. Two sets
are provided with each: Two separate sections which joined total 14" in length and 4" wide, and two more of the making the
same length, but 2" wide so that both types of Alleys shown on the Full Block Schematic can be represented as crossing completely
from one street to another.
And now a new feature is added! Both Alley widths are now duplicated, one showing trash and litter
(even the odd dead rat!), and the other without so that modelers may print whichever best suits their preference.
Each PDF: $2.00 each
Asphalt Alley 
Concrete Alley 
Brick Alley #1 
Brick Alley #2 
Paving Stone Alley 
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Sidewalks
Sidewalk Sets come printed on two sheets five 10" lengths sufficient to represent up to 50" (one Full
Block side and one end), plus a pair of 2" matching corner pieces with storm drains. Sidewalk lengths have authentic
gratings and manholes in different locations for still greater variety.
Sidewalk sections are to be mounted on standard 3/16"/5mm thick foam board pieces cut to match. By
scoring, folding and gluing the curbs down, a full 3-D effect is created for maximum visual appeal (note the photographs
above) . .
Each PDF: $2.00
Brick Sidewalk, Type 1
Brick Sidewalk, Type 2
Concrete Sidewalk
Old Concrete Sidewalk
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Streetcar And Tracks
Designed by master dioramist, Mr. Eric Cox, this highly detailed and accurate model now adds a
nostalgic presence--and tactical significance!--to your City. When assembled, it is 8.5" long, just less than 2" wide,
just above 2" in height, and comes complete with "bumpers," the correct design of "trucks," and a selection of signage for
the 1920's through 30's.
PDF: $5.00
A Streetcar is of little use without rails to run on, so a full selection of street
surfaces with the rails already in place is provided. Track Sets come on 5 sheets of card stock, enough for 50" of straight
line track (no curves or intersections are necessary) in your choice of Asphalt, Concrete, or Brick, to match the other
Street surfaces available (see above).
Each PDF: $4.00
Asphalt, with Track center in Brick
Brick, with Track center in different Brick, Type 2
Concrete, with Track center Asphalt
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Roof Top Structures
A refinement over the first releases, these structures are now available optionally. A total of eight
different designs are available in the one set. Two have long slanting roofs representing stair wells, and five are more
general in shape. A pigeon cote which may be mounted on any large enough roof is included to complete the set, and a pair
of Water Towers help complete the effect.
PDF: $4.00
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Advertising, Posters, & Signs (Graphics Sets)
Finally, the three principal Graphics Sets are full color pages of properly scaled, authentic period
advertising, theater, circus, movie, and political posters to cut out and add to your buildings and alley walls. Organized
by decades, you have the option of actually putting up only those films, theater shows, products, etc, that match the period
you want your layout to represent.
Each PDF: $2.00
Graphics Set #1 (1920-1930)--
A full page of Silents and early "Talkies," as well as proper period Recruiting Posters, and products
(though no Alcohol!) for the era of Prohibition.
Graphics Set #2 (1931-1940)--
A two page collection of classic Movie, Work Projects Administration posters, Recruiting,
Beer and Liquor ads reflecting the era of the Great Depression and Repeal.
Graphics Set #3 (1941-1950)--
A
full page of famous 40's Movies, a variety of product advertisements, and a wide selection of Recruiting
and Propaganda posters reflecting the Era of WW II and "Hard Boiled" Detectives.
Graphics Set #4 (Generic, all periods)--
Another full page of Political, Advertising, Circus Posters, and other items that could be seen on
walls in the period(s) you may wish to set your Mean Streets.
NEW! Graphics Set #5 (Ethnic Neighborhoods)--
Just what you need to give "Chinatown" and the Jewish Business Blocks their flavor and color! Authentic
Chinese Lanuage advertising, business, and political posters, signage, and flags to bring these exotic blocks to life, as well
as English and Yiddish examples to post on other walls. An especially exotic and humanizing detail set to take your Mean Streets layout to the next level.
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"Take Over The Neighborhood" Deals
Each of the listed "neighborhoods" consists of four related Block Sections which may be laid out to form the four
corners of an intersection, or two adjacent Blocks facing another pair, or in one full length city block. The
$35.00 price for each neighborhood includes all appropriate Alleys,
Sidewalks, and Streets, plus the buyers's choice of the Graphic Set which best suits their preferred period, as well as general
or specific assembly instructions, and a set of schematics for each possible layout. Everything you need to build the perfect
"back lot" for your Pulp, Gangster, Horror, or other scenarios.
More neighborhood sets will be assembled, particularly as new Blocks continue to be added to
"Mean Streets."
1.
Chinatown /
Jewish Neighborhood
Two neighborhoods in one! By facing all Chinese buildings/businesses together, you have Chinatown, and by
reversing their faces, you have the Jewish businesses. All four Blocks come with less than "modern" Alley/Sidewalk/Street
textures as this part of town doesn't receive the attention from local government as other, more "mainstream" areas. This
set also comes automatically with Graphic Set #5, which includes Mandarin signage, flags, etc, as well as Yiddish advertising,
and posters.
2. The Slums
All three Tenement and the Light Industry Blocks with a mix of the oldest Alley/Sidewalk/Street textures
befitting the age of most of these buildings and their neglect by local government.
"Take Over The Town" Deals
Order any 5 Block
Section PDF's, and choose a 6th for free. All files will be E-mailed to you immediately
upon processing of your order.
To place your particular Deal, simply E-mail TVAG and specify your
choices of Buildings, Streets, Alleys, Sidewalks, etc, from the lists above. I'll figure the price and invoice you via
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And Still More To Come!
Coming soon will be Block Sections representing "Big Jim" Colosimo's Restaurant, and
more businesses are coming as well. A full set of Mean Streets already occupies some 8' x 5' without
duplication of any Block Sections.
...Finally, At Last...
"We Only Kill Each Other!"
A unique rules system for Gangster and Police games in the period of the
"Beer Wars," We Only Kill Each Other (WOKEO), originally inspired by the late Scott Saylors, and
brought to fruition by P.R. Wilson, has finally been released, after many years in development. Specifically designed to make
use of Mean Streets (and Mean Sets) the game includes
detailed rules for Driving on the actual miniature streets, risks of accidents, the advantages (and disadvantages!) of
Police Sirens, the use of Police Call Boxes, and other features missing from rules without a "town" to be played in. There are
scenarios with specific reference to Block Sections and Businesses in both collections. The rules
also cover "Dillinger Days," the
period of the famous bandit gangs of the early 30's, and (with more than a hint of Sicilian cooking) the "Mafia Wars," too.
How far the Mean Streets and related projects proceed
still depends in part on public interest and customer support! |
