371: Pre-War Businesses: CHROMAX Genetics, Chryslus Motors, and Ciampa's Antiques

0:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Robots radio, games, lore, stories, community, just press play. [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Fallout lore cast. [SPEAKER_00]: The podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout. [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a while since we've discussed the pre-war businesses of fallout and believe me, there are tons of them.

0:32 [SPEAKER_00]: We will not run out of these anytime soon because we are still in the seas working through alphabetically. [SPEAKER_00]: This week, we have two smaller entries and then one major one, the Chryseless Motor Corporation. [SPEAKER_00]: They're the ones who make the Corvega and the Highwayman famous vehicle that you get to drive and fall out too and then never get to drive any vehicles in any other fallout games after that point.

0:56 [SPEAKER_00]: But also, the vehicles were powered by, well, nuclear power, but not all of them. [SPEAKER_00]: There are some really cool details here when we get into this corporation and the products they make. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's coming up. [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, before we get into this, thank you so much to those of you who have, [SPEAKER_00]: sent me comments on this series of these pre-war businesses and how much you've been enjoying this content.

1:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I really do appreciate it. [SPEAKER_00]: It does help me understand what things you like about the show and what things to put out there. [SPEAKER_00]: I also did a get a comment. [SPEAKER_00]: I noticed one where somebody said, bring back the gameplay episodes. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's curious.

1:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I know some people like those, but I know based on [SPEAKER_00]: just the total number of use each episode gets or listens uh... that those tend to not be listened to by a significant portion of people but hey if i mean if it's something that a lot of you like then please let me know maybe i can find a way to work some of that kind of content back into the show so i appreciate all the feedback and especially the positive ones or at least the the polite ones and uh... well let's just get into it here we go [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, to kick this one off, we are talking about Chromax Genetics, CHROMAX, this is a company specifically having to do with biotechnology and genetics, Chromazones, Chromax.

2:23 [SPEAKER_00]: think you get it. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we only have a reference about this company in one place in Fallout 76, specifically two individuals who worked in Vault 96. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you recall, Vault 96 was all about being able to repopulate the world after the bombs fall with plants and animal species in order to make sure that life goes on.

2:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would assume that human beings also have [SPEAKER_00]: and to provide for themselves. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this vault is a big role in Fallout 76. [SPEAKER_00]: I've talked about it before, that's not the point of this specific episode. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you haven't done the content around Vault 96, go check it out.

3:05 [SPEAKER_00]: There are some cool quest lines and things. [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things you'll find is that there were a number of different scientists who worked there and some of what they were doing had to do with different species of animals that they were keeping in cages and doing experiments on.

3:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, specifically, there were two individuals who before working in Vault 96 worked for Chromex genetics, that's how we know about them. [SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, there is Nina Velaya, V-A-L-A-Y-A, Words are hard, and also Molly Cooper. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we do know a little bit about them from terminals from the overseer about individuals who worked in the vault.

3:48 [SPEAKER_00]: We know about Nina, she was 44 years old, at least the time of this terminal entry. [SPEAKER_00]: She had a Ph.D. [SPEAKER_00]: in genetics and biology, two Ph.D.s, double, double doctor, prior occupation as listed here as the founder of Chromax genetics. [SPEAKER_00]: She was the one who built this company.

4:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Volta Occupation is chief researcher, so that might raise some questions, when did she switch over from this company she was running to work in a vault, why did she do that? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we don't have all the answers to those things, but we do know specific dates. [SPEAKER_00]: In the list of notes in this terminal entry, it says founder and principal investigator, [SPEAKER_00]: to whatever date the present is.

4:34 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would I would guess that this is roughly when the vault opened 277 right before the bombs dropped. [SPEAKER_00]: Now that's not the only entry in her resume that's interesting. [SPEAKER_00]: Get this. [SPEAKER_00]: She was a researcher at West Tech. [SPEAKER_00]: for four years, 2067 to 2071.

4:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Now when you think West Tech think FEV, think all sorts of different experiments having to do with mutated creatures and all of that, right? [SPEAKER_00]: So her background is very squarely on the manipulation of chromosomes, genes in these kinds of creatures. [SPEAKER_00]: She also was a scientist at Oresa Polytechnic from 2065 to 2067 and the note here after that says that she was expelled.

5:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Why was she expelled? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, other notes might give us some insight to that as well. [SPEAKER_00]: She was the principal author of 55 papers of Cross Species Genetics, which is exactly what Chromax did, was that they worked on taking elements from different animals, different genes, and splicing them together in interesting ways.

5:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And more on that in a minute. [SPEAKER_00]: But the final note here about her is that she's a brilliant scientist with flexible ethical standards, which may have led to her being expelled from a rest of polytechnic. [SPEAKER_00]: And we're not going to cover that company right now. [SPEAKER_00]: That'll be in the future when we get to the O's.

5:58 [SPEAKER_00]: But this gives you some background on Nina Valaya and her... [SPEAKER_00]: role in all of this and why she would have been chosen to work in a vault specifically. [SPEAKER_00]: I would imagine that they had to pay her a ton to let go of her company or maybe the company was not doing so well.

6:13 [SPEAKER_00]: We don't really know. [SPEAKER_00]: Now what we do know is that she has a co-worker that she brought with her to Vault 96, Molly Cooper, aged 29, with the PhD in microbiology, prior occupation was as a researcher at Chromex and in the vault she was the chief biologist. [SPEAKER_00]: She was a researcher at Chromex from 2076 to the presence of just roughly a year, and then she was the co-author on four papers having to do with analytical microbiology, which makes sense why she was the chief biologist.

6:47 [SPEAKER_00]: She's described as a bright, timid, anxious, emotionally vulnerable, which seems interesting and might be telling about both the overseer and why she was included here. [SPEAKER_00]: because the final note is inclusion, a condition of misvaliahs, acceptance, undisclosed relationship possible.

7:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The overseer is implying that these two may have a romantic relationship, and that's why she was brought over not just because she was good at her job, but there may have been a personal connection between the two. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, other than this reference, we don't get to visit the location of Chromax, it appears that this was something that was shut down before the vaults really opened up and became thing before the bombs dropped all of that.

7:29 [SPEAKER_00]: So, we don't really have any record or history of that specific location, although that doesn't mean that it won't show up in a future, I don't know, expansion or something. [SPEAKER_00]: But... [SPEAKER_00]: We do know that they worked with the combining and the changing of genes, and this fits right into some of the experiments and things they were doing in Vault 96.

7:48 [SPEAKER_00]: So all of this plays together and makes sense. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, one little point about this, the manipulation of genes in a biological specimen, whether that's an amoeba or a cat, isn't necessarily a nefarious thing. [SPEAKER_00]: In the world of Fallout, it's typically [SPEAKER_00]: tied directly to the creation of things like super mutants or other weird abominations.

8:10 [SPEAKER_00]: But in real world, this is something that we already can do. [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, my wife runs a research lab and one of the creatures that she uses in her lab, creature, one of the animals that she uses in her lab in order to do experiments is a mouse. [SPEAKER_00]: And that mouse is a type of mouse that only exists [SPEAKER_00]: not in nature but in laboratories because it was genetically changed so that the brain of the mouse used proteins in a similar way to human brains so that they could experiment on those proteins in a mouse rather than in a human being.

8:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, there are moral issues with experimenting on human brains, also how do you do a bunch of tests on people when they live to an average of 70 something years? [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, you do it on mice, they have much shorter lifespans, and if all the other details don't get in the way, then this becomes something that can eventually [SPEAKER_00]: help with humans.

9:07 [SPEAKER_00]: So those kinds of changes of genetics in those ways can be very, well, ethically minded. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there are rules that she has to go through. [SPEAKER_00]: There are procedures. [SPEAKER_00]: There are things that she does in order to make sure that the mice are well taken care of and ethically handled.

9:23 [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, there's an entire [SPEAKER_00]: Floor of the building she works on, that manages animals and the ethical care of those animals while they're being experimented on. [SPEAKER_00]: And I know some people will say, well, any experimentation is unethical and we don't need to get into the weeds on that.

9:37 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is something that we do in the real world and doesn't always turn into monsters. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's my point. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not necessarily a nefarious thing. [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of very positive things that have come from the manipulation of genes and the research that we get around that.

9:52 [SPEAKER_00]: just wanted to throw that out there, but in this case, of course, it's fallout and it turns into all sorts of crazy weird stuff, and you have people like Nina and Molly to thank for that. [SPEAKER_00]: The next one is a big one. [SPEAKER_00]: The Chryseless or Chryseless Chryseless, probably Chryseless because it's playing off of Chrysler, but Chryseless Motors companies were going next, and this comes up across the series.

10:17 [SPEAKER_00]: The Chryseless brand is something that shows up very, very early in the first two games, [SPEAKER_00]: It's a vehicle that you can drive and fall out to, like I mentioned, even though we can't drive vehicles in the other games. [SPEAKER_00]: Yet, maybe that'll be something they had at some point, who knows?

10:31 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is an interesting company because it plays off of a real-world connection, Chrysler being an American car brand. [SPEAKER_00]: And the concept of the way the world worked before the bomb struck, the idea that they were using nuclear power to power all sorts of things, including vehicles.

10:49 [SPEAKER_00]: which just feels dangerous because cars get in wrecks all the time right now much like the Chrysler automobile company in our world and many of the american brands of cars you might think that this company goes back a long way but turns out that it was only founded [SPEAKER_00]: In 2070, or at least it started launching cars into production in 2070, I'm sure the founding would have been slightly before that in order to get all the finances and manufacturing and auto plants and things created, but that's the date we have.

11:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this doesn't come from an in-game source. [SPEAKER_00]: Some of these details only come from the Fallout Bible and Chris Avalon responding to Q&A questions in the early 2000s. [SPEAKER_00]: So according to that information in his mind, this company was only around for about seven [SPEAKER_00]: Now, because of this proximity to the Great War and the escalating tensions and the military movements toward the end of, well, civilization before the bombs drop in the wasteland comes about, the factories shifted in that very short period of time, more and more to toward the military effort.

11:55 [SPEAKER_00]: This is something that happened in World War II, for example. [SPEAKER_00]: grandfather my great-grandfather owned a manufacturing plant and during World War II shifted his production to serve the war effort and at the end of the war effort at least this is according to family stories so who knows exactly how true this is when [SPEAKER_00]: When the government was providing subsidies for these companies to help pay them for the products that they were making, he actually turned it down.

12:28 [SPEAKER_00]: He would not take the money from the government because he believed that that was his patriotic duty for the war effort because he wasn't serving in the military, but at least he was providing for the war effort and he didn't take the government's money, which I'm sure cost him. [SPEAKER_00]: I consider Bull amount and believe me I'm not living on piles of money that I got from descending from somebody who ran a large manufacturing company.

12:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so yeah, I don't know the details of how all that stuff played out in the long run, but interesting story. [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, due to the fact that the company could only produce so many cars because a lot of their manufacturing was used for the military, the prices on the cars go up.

13:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Less. [SPEAKER_00]: Product means more demand, which means higher prices that they can charge. [SPEAKER_00]: So although they were extremely popular, they were not producing a lot of vehicles very quickly. [SPEAKER_00]: So the vehicles became very expensive. [SPEAKER_00]: We know in Fallout 2 that the Core Vega, their most popular model, cost $199,999 to purchase one.

13:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Now back in say 1997, this would have seemed like an absolutely ridiculous sum of money, but with how much prices have changed in the 25-30 years almost from then? [SPEAKER_00]: By 2077, are we going to have the average car price be something like $200,000? [SPEAKER_00]: It could be possible, like that is not beyond reason.

13:55 [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe just another one of those little symptoms of our own world, heading more towards the world of Fallout, which is, which is fun, fun and exciting. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, these vehicles were known for being well-produced. [SPEAKER_00]: They were reliable, they were well-built, there was minimal amount of upkeep, especially being that they were designed with like nuclear parts.

14:15 [SPEAKER_00]: You would imagine that the average person wouldn't be able to fix their nuclear generator in their car. [SPEAKER_00]: So these cars had to be made well. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the general consensus and the consensus down in the line by even people like Paladin dance was that these were good cars and reliable and they used fusion engines, but maybe that was part of the marketing because they did have a few different slogans that they used, which seemed to reinforce some of these ideas.

14:46 [SPEAKER_00]: for those who want more, they were known for their size and for being big, the kinds of vehicles that Americans would want to drive because they take up all this room and our huge. [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, this little side point here, no shade on anybody who drives a truck, like lots of people drive trucks, I don't know in a truck, but a lot of people who drive trucks.

15:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know, then only 10% of truck owners ever actually used the truck beds to haul anything. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I totally get that there are other reasons to own a truck and drive truck. [SPEAKER_00]: I just thought that it was kind of funny. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that would be like buying a motorcycle with a side car and yet never putting anyone in the side car.

15:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And the statistics showing that for 100% of people who buy motorcycles with side cars, only 10% of them ever put anyone in a side car. [SPEAKER_00]: That would be weird, right? [SPEAKER_00]: A little bit odd, but I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there's other reasons. [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, there's slogans that we're used for things like driving paradise.

15:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing can stop a highway man, life is a race, win. [SPEAKER_00]: So they're pushing these different ideas, like lots of space, nothing can stop it, so it's highly reliable, it's a beautiful thing, because it's like driving paradise itself, also that these things were fast, and maybe they were.

15:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the Corvega is the most famous brand, and we know that not every vehicle that Chryseless made was nuclear powered was fusion powered specifically, because in Fallout 2, you go on a quest in order to get a battery out of one of these vehicles, and it's not just [SPEAKER_00]: typical car battery or alternator because you're alternating the current and changing the current from the Fusion Generator to the rest of the power systems.

16:20 [SPEAKER_00]: No, these cars, some of them, were actually battery powered. [SPEAKER_00]: So not every vehicle on the road would, I don't know, explode when you shoot it in Fallout 4 or something like that. [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of Fallout 4, this company has shown up in every mainline Fallout game, [SPEAKER_00]: across the board.

16:41 [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those companies that keeps reappearing. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might be wondering what other kinds of products did they make? [SPEAKER_00]: What other cars are on the road that I saw are priceless. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they made the sedans, the blitz, the highway men, which is the one that we talk about in Fallout 2, and then the cherry bomb.

17:01 [SPEAKER_00]: The CDN is the one that looks the most to me, like a typical 1950s car. [SPEAKER_00]: It's big and rumy, it's a kind of a boat. [SPEAKER_00]: The lines on it are very art deco-y. [SPEAKER_00]: You see these broken down on the roads across different Fallout games. [SPEAKER_00]: The blitz is a little bit smaller.

17:18 [SPEAKER_00]: It kind of got this long nose in the front and these lines that come down the side and the section in the middle where the people sit is much smaller. [SPEAKER_00]: It looks like it fits for people, but it's much more tightly confined. [SPEAKER_00]: The doors even kind of slope in towards the top, almost like a...

17:35 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not quite a pyramid shape, but the narrows towards the top of the roof. [SPEAKER_00]: These were coops that were considered to be family friendly, so not as big as the sedan, but something that was a little bit, a little bit, I don't know, sportier, but also smaller, probably cost a little bit less, although we don't know the prices for these things.

17:55 [SPEAKER_00]: then there's a high women which is another big vehicle with the wings on the back looks very 1960s to to my eyes and then there's the cherry bomb which is the little red little most click a little rocket with a little dome where the driver would sit these were very small. [SPEAKER_00]: But the concept of this was to have a personal vehicle that if you really wanted to, you could drive it and break the sound barrier, which seems super ridiculous for a, I don't know, a regular vehicle that anybody would want to drive on the road, but I guess you got to play up your sports car, stuff for the sports car fans.

18:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Not actually like sports car design, so no shade on that either. [SPEAKER_00]: In trucks can be super useful, so please, [SPEAKER_00]: the can't totally cany of fence at my truck fax truck fax let's do a show called truck fax all right so that's not all the details about this because there's a ton of stuff to go over but some of the things that are more interesting to go over are the fact that and this is a funny little side connection with a few different other connections here so go with me on this in the funnies you know when you open up the gum and you get the [SPEAKER_00]: There is mentioned in the funnest of the Chryseless Rocket 69.

19:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might be wondering, okay, what is the Rocket 69? [SPEAKER_00]: Because you just listed out all these products, is this another vehicle, did they have a vehicle named the Rocket 69? [SPEAKER_00]: This is a reference to the song, Rocket 69, which is one of those old timey songs that plays [SPEAKER_00]: in the games.

19:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, not all of those old-timey-sounding songs are actual real-world songs. [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, some of those, and we went over some of this in the song episode I did a long time ago, but some of those songs are written and recorded by current day artists in a studio in order to kind of just create the feeling of them being old and being able to be used in the game.

19:50 [SPEAKER_00]: But the majority of them are actual old songs. [SPEAKER_00]: What about Rocket 69? [SPEAKER_00]: It was yes, that is an old song, and it comes from 1951. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you might also be thinking, wait a minute, 1951, Rocket 69 wasn't there another song called Rocket 88 in 1951, you're absolutely right.

20:08 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you are a history buff that knows anything about the history of Rock and Roll and Jazz and all of that, Rocket 88 is by some people consider to be the very first definitive [SPEAKER_00]: both due to its structure, but also the use of distorted guitars, which is kind of crazy to think about.

20:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And the way they got distorted guitars back then wasn't by plugging into your martial stack and turning up the gain all the way or running through a distortion pedal. [SPEAKER_00]: They would do all sorts of crazy things like break speakers in order to get weird sounds from their guitars.

20:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, Rocket 88 comes out at the beginning of 1951, and then [SPEAKER_00]: Another song, Rocket 69, which this crisis is named after, comes out about six months later in July. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, details on all of these things are a little foggy because you might also be wondering, is there a connection between these two songs?

21:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out, we don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been looking into this, and both of them were written and recorded by different artists. [SPEAKER_00]: Rocket 88 is by Jackie Brinstin and his Delta cats. [SPEAKER_00]: which was Eich Turner's band, Eich Turner, Tina Turner, the guy who was terrible to her that she wrote songs about, yes, that Eich Turner.

21:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Rocket 69 was by Kali Allen with Todd Rhodes Orchestra. [SPEAKER_00]: And as I previously noted, Rocket 88 was kind of the first rock and roll songs, considered by a lot of people. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Rock and Roll is connected very deeply to R&B. [SPEAKER_00]: blues, jazz, all of these origins that kind of evolved into Rock and Roll, but Rock at 69 is much more in the R&B genre of its day.

21:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, the meanings of the songs are different. [SPEAKER_00]: Rock at 88 is kind of more about adventure and freedom and getting in a fast car and going places whereas Rock at 69 as the 9th name implies. [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, terms like this were used in the 1950s. [SPEAKER_00]: is more about sexual innuendo, as were many of the songs of that day, especially in the R&B genre, and some of those do show up in Fallout.

22:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, so the question then becomes were these songs connected? [SPEAKER_00]: Was Rocket 69 a parody of Rocket 88 or just took a similar idea? [SPEAKER_00]: It was recorded seven-ish months later, so maybe, but there's no definitive answer to this [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it seems kind of convenient that these two things came out, but there's really no direct reference in the song lyrics, and I mean, it could have just been a coincidence.

22:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, Rocket 88 was based off of the old's Mobile 88, which was produced in 1949 and 1950, so it would have been something that people were aware of, and it also used the Rocket V8 engine, therefore, Rocket 88. [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go, that's the version of that stuff that they'll connect back to the game.

23:03 [SPEAKER_00]: So how does this connect back to the game? [SPEAKER_00]: Good question, I'm glad you asked. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, only one of these two songs does show up in Fallout. [SPEAKER_00]: It's Rocket 69, not Rocket 88. [SPEAKER_00]: There's some speculation that maybe the cost of licensing it was a bit higher being that it's a more popular and important song in the history of music and all of that.

23:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So, those things have connections. [SPEAKER_00]: Also, the idea that a V8 engine exists in the Chrysler's vehicles and fall it is possible. [SPEAKER_00]: There is some artwork that shows some of the concept art that shows not only V8 but V2, V6 and VX engines in these vehicles. [SPEAKER_00]: Also, remember I mentioned the Cherry Bomb, the vehicle, the car that was supposed to break the sound barrier and go really, really fast.

23:48 [SPEAKER_00]: That car shows up in the game forza Motorsports 6, and in that game it's the design of the Cherry Bomb, but it's renamed the Chryseless Rocket 69. [SPEAKER_00]: So there are some connections here. [SPEAKER_00]: So I know that feels like a really big rabbit trail, but this does connect back.

24:06 [SPEAKER_00]: because all of this speculation and discussion about these songs and all of that goes back to the funnies and the note in one of the funnies about a Chryseless rocket 69 which of course is connected to all of these other things and everything refers to everything else and now you have this in a video game.

24:22 [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go! [SPEAKER_00]: a deep dive into crisis now is there anything else we know there are some other smaller little details uh different kinds of mentions of the vehicle in different games or the different vehicles or the the company or the logo shows up or there's different artwork the crisis is one of those brands that is definitively fallout much like West Tech or Robco [SPEAKER_00]: We just don't talk about it as much because they weren't making, I don't know, power armor, or turning people into super mutants or whatever, but it does show up all over the place.

24:54 [SPEAKER_00]: And who doesn't love accidentally shooting a car and having an explode in a little mini-new explosion? [SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, well, that one took up most of our time because that was a big one, but we do have one more small one this week that just going to throw in there as a little bit of a bonus here at the end of the show.

25:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Campas and peaks and maybe it's Campas, but it's spelled with a C, so C I A M P A or maybe it's Kampa. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like it's a little Latin. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe I don't know some other language that's not 100% English. [SPEAKER_00]: Really, there's not a lot to say here.

25:32 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't tell what this is beyond the fact that it's a sign. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a sign for a store that shows up in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. [SPEAKER_00]: And on the sign, although it's faded, you can see things like family owned since 255. [SPEAKER_00]: Sampas and Teaks, collectibles and rare antiquities.

25:51 [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those signs you find on buildings. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it was a chain of antique stores because there's more than just one of these. [SPEAKER_00]: Outside of that? [SPEAKER_00]: No other info. [SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those kind of decorative items you find in the world that makes it feel lived in.

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