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There are many commercial brands advertising their products and services on the streets of the Cursed Apple. Here's a list of them and their possible real world inspirations.

Summary[edit | edit source]

Afterlife Credit House
Astral Plane Canned Mille-Pattes Dazzle
Baroness Hotel - Baroness Hotel in Seattle, WA (close to Valve's office in Bellevue)
Bradley's Tonics and Salves
Carpenter Brand Sparkling Brut - French musician Carpenter Brut (named after American filmmaker John Carpenter)
Classic Blue Paint Service
C. M. Burns & Ashe Cremations - Charles Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons, also a pun on "see them burn"
Crowley's Convenience - Aleister Crowley
Filtered Nationals
Five Eyes from Concentrate Meats and Crab 5 Eyes - Five Guys Burgers and Fries
Fogwell's Bioluminescence
Friedlander and Koppelman Co. Law and Curse
Granite City Garage - Granite City, IL
Grebb
Happy Panda Coffee
Hellmans Steel and Iron Works
Hex Jazz Records
Holy Chains
H. West Reanimation Professionals - H.P. Lovecraft's short story Herbert West-Reanimator
Macksound and Hoff Importers of Occultic Goods
McMahon and Co. Purveyor of Fine Products and Altercations - Mann Co. from Team Fortress 2 ("We sell products and get in fights")
Mosquito Prince
Overlord & Company
Prince-S All Brand Guild Society Revue
Red Cross Cola - Coca Cola
Red Hand Premium Coffee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song Red Right Hand
Rn Castevets Twin Omen Cigar - The Castevets family from the movie Rosemary's Baby
Sanctuary Horn Wax
Sanguine Laceration
Talisman Brand Amulets
The 66th Store - The 14th Street Store
The New York Oracle - The New York Times
Third Eye Supply - Third Eye (spiritual concept)
W.E. Kurtz & Sons - Colonel Kurtz from the movie Apocalypse Now
White Crow Bleak Thoughts - In Russian, "White Crow" is an expression similar to "Black Sheep" in English
Willeford Pharmaceuticals - American detective fiction author Charles Willeford

Items[edit | edit source]

Some of the posters are advertising in-game items.

Basic Magazine
Health Nova (item renamed to Healing Nova)
Improved Cooldown
Melee Lifesteal
Metal Skin
Mystic Reach
Rescue Beam
Tesla Bullets

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Concept art showing various signs
Various signs and artwork
Various signs
Item posters
The New York Oracle billboard
Unused store signs found in the game files
Neon Prime posters

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Some of the fonts used in poster designs are Hestina, Decotura ICG and American Captain.
Happy Panda Coffee replaced a previous poster that read "Sad Panda Coffee - Always Bitter".
Astral Plane Canned Mille-Pattes Dazzle used to be called Astral Plane Canned Centipedes in an earlier version of the billboard.
There was an old poster that read "Prime Neons sold here", a reference to Neon Prime.

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 <gallery>
 File:City concept art.png|Concept art showing various signs
-File:Signs 1.png|Various brand signs and artwork
+File:Signs 1.png|Various signs and artwork
+File:Signs 2.png|Various signs
 File:Item posters.png|Item posters
-File:Neon Prime posters 1.png|[[Neon Prime]] posters
+File:New york Oracle billboard.png|The New York Oracle billboard
+File:Store signs.png|Unused store signs found in the game files
+File:Neon Prime posters 1.png|[[Neon Prime]] posters
 </gallery>
 == Trivia ==
+* Some of the fonts used in poster designs are [https://www.dafont.com/hestina.font Hestina], [https://freefonts.co/fonts/decotura-icg-regular Decotura ICG] and [https://www.dafont.com/american-captain.font American Captain].
 * Happy Panda Coffee replaced a previous poster that read ''"Sad Panda Coffee - Always Bitter"''.
 * Astral Plane Canned Mille-Pattes Dazzle used to be called ''Astral Plane Canned Centipedes'' in an earlier version of the billboard.
+* There was an old poster that read ''"Prime Neons sold here"'', a reference to [[Neon Prime|''Neon Prime'']].
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