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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 5451283" data-attributes="member: 11437">This post lists several locations important to this story.  Some of these will make sense a little later as the story progresses.  Suffice to say that your characters know of these locations as being around the general area where you work.Emerald Pictures - 6600 W. Sunset Blvd, Hollywood CAThis is the filmmaking enterprise that employs the PCs at the start of “The Silent Partner”.  Some of the action may take place here, but the project the PCs are associated with is being filmed at CBC Studios in Poverty Row.Main Building: This two-story building is located at the front of the property.  The vast majority of employees work in this office building.AccountingBudgetingCastingDistributionFinanceHiring OfficeLegalMarketingPayrollProductionRights & ClearancesSalesSecurityTalentExecutive Building: Located behind the main building, these offices are off-limits to all but privileged personnel and guests.Film RoomFilm VaultIsaac Steinburg’s Office (Steinburg is the head of Emerald Pictures)SecurityVPs OfficesSound Stages (Under Construction)Enzo’s News-Stand – 1401 N. La Brea Ave, Hollywood CAPopular with local businessmen and talent alike, you can get copies of local newspapers at Enzo’s, as well as week-old copies of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.  Popular magazines are also available at this news-stand.Rio Alto Theatre – 6065 W. Sunset Blvd, Hollywood CAThis small theatre was, until the mid 1920s, showcasing east coast vaudeville acts for west coast audiences.  When film started to take over, and vaudeville starting to wane, the Rio Alto did not want to convert to a cinema house, so it started placing off-Broadway musicals, magic shows, and other live entertainment on its playbills.  The Rio Alto has been forced to “get with the times”, however, and now is in the process of converting its main stage to a cinema.CBC Studios – 1438 N. Gower St, Hollywood CAIn 1929, this is located in an area known as Poverty Row.  It is a collection of small studios and warehouses.  Emerald Pictures uses the studios for productions until their own sound stages are completed (currently under construction).  F.W. Murnau’s project is filming here.Office BuildingsBuilding 1: Offices for CBC ProductionsBuilding 7: Temporary Offices for Emerald PicturesSecurity Shack/Front GateStudiosStudio 10: Murnau’s Film ProjectStudio 13: Murnau’s Film Project[sblock]Note that I am aware that the Wikipedia page for Sunset Gower Studios says that there is no Studio 13.  Consider this to be "part of the mystery".[/sblock]Warehouses & StorageStorage Shed 18: Storage for Emerald PicturesWardrobe Building: Communal Storage for Large WardrobesThe Wilshire Club – 1040 N. Las Palmas Ave, Hollywood CAThis gentleman’s club is popular with actors, writers, directors, and producers and is also where a lot of “talent scouting” goes on for “certain types of pictures”.  A rumored speakeasy may be found in the basement.We can add other locations as the story progresses.EDIT: I may have made a historical error on the naming of Sunset Gower Studios.  It appears that this name was only given the property after it was purchased in 1977.  <s>We'll use this name for now because I can't find what the name was before that.  It may have just been "Columbia Studios" or "Cohn Studios" or something.</s>  OK upon further review, the studios we're using were part of CBC Productions (Harry Cohn's company before it became Columbia).  We'll use that name from now on (and I'll edit the above and where necessary).</blockquote>

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