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"Mean Streets" Accessories
(Individual Items Are Priced Separately)
Click Here To Revisit Block Sections 1-20
Click Here To Revisit Block Sections 21-33
To See Special Multi-Block Deals Click Here
Streets, Alleys, Sidewalks, Streetcars, Roof Top Structures,
& Graphics Sets
No city layout can be complete without these. 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. With the Streetcar, you can now add Public Transportation to your layout, a classic icon of City life in this era. Similarly, what are "Mean Streets" without those dark Alleys for quick escapes--or ugly surprises found in the morning?
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)
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Street Set #2-- Concrete (Common from the 1920's on)
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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
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 they prefer.
Each PDF: $2.00 each
Asphalt Alley 
Concrete Alley 
Brick Alley #1 
Brick Alley #2 
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 PayPal.
"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 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.
Price Complete:
$35.00
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.
Price Complete:
$35.00
2. The Harbor
In this special set there are five files, the Wharf and four Block Sections, plus sidewalks, alleys, and streets to match its ... ambiance....
Price Complete:
$40.00
The Offer You Can't Refuse!
Order the Complete "Whole Town Deal" PDF Collection of Mean Streets with ALL Street, Sidewalk, Alley, and all other Accessories to build the entire town as it currently stands
for $210.00 and save $229.00
over the retail total cost of everything!
And Still More To Come!
Still in the pipe is "Big Jim" Colosimo's Restaurant, and other businesses are coming as well. A full set of Mean Streets already occupies well over 8' x 5' without duplication of any Block Sections.
...And 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 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.
Click Here To Revisit Block Sections 1-20
Click Here To Revisit Block Sections 21-33
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