And The Beat Goes On....
More stuff from Ostrop. The city hasn't grown much because I started a small town off to the SE called Balmer. This is connected with the Pinewoods Highway but there will be more on that town later.
These are a few apartment buildings constructed in different eras. The one on the left was built about 1920 in the Art-Deco revival that Ostrop was expirencing. At one time it was a square building (with none of the balconies seen here) that was specifically meant to house workers who were building this part of town in the mid-20's. The one on the right is a rather recent addition built approxmately in 1936. Here we see high wealth people with a desire to live in the city but want out of the low wealth slums that are slowly spreading away from the factories. This has yet to be explained and controlled as the town is slowly getting poorer but the businesses seem to be getting wealthier. The current mayor is a progressive though and is looking into some trust-busting. He evicted (he can, the mayor is very powerful in SimNation as the federal government is weak) and demolished old polluting factories that were run by wealthy plutocrats and divided the land for smaller start up factories to begin.
Ah the simple life...the sims seem to yearn for this. This small town in the NW farming district was built about 1930 when the city's population peaked at 56,000 sims. As the city became crowded a few hundred sims moved west and set up their own farms. There was land availble due to the farm crops prices fallout in the late 20's. This nameless town provided peace and relaxtion for many sims and they plan to live their lives here. But in the 1940's the town became a sort of retirment villa as the farms had bought each other and had formed several conglomerates. The owners of these conglomerate got wealthy and moved to the coastal fishing town of Balmer.
These are several of the small town shops along the beaches in the SE town of Balmer. These are of much simpler design than the Art-Deco Revival towers of Ostrop because the owners are starters and built much of it with their own hands. These 2 were built around 1910 when the first sims finally treked their way to the coast and found it full of fish and setup this little town. The one on the right is a saloon and has a few small specialty shops (one is Fondue Fondler and they have the best fondue shit around! The other is Pants By Marge whose slogan is "With Marge's hands on your pants you feel gooooooood") and upstairs is a premo lounge/inn. The next door was built literally the day after the other and originally had shops and apartments but was later transformed into a insurance agency. The clock tower was only added in 1932 when the insurance agency became sucessful. The agency's HQ is no longer here (they moved into the larger Ben Tower in Ostrop) but they still maintain it as a branch.
See 2nd photo. These shops were buil here to save the local residents the trip to Ostrop for all their goods. The local grocer only carries food from the local farms so its always fresh, the jewler's products are all handmade, the music store has everything from classical Ludwig Von Beetovsim to the punk band Sim Sins, the local bartender will pretty much know your name if you've ever been there, the innkeeper will always have a room for you, the theater is always putting on a classic, blockbuster, or any decent film or play from anyone.
These are a few apartment buildings constructed in different eras. The one on the left was built about 1920 in the Art-Deco revival that Ostrop was expirencing. At one time it was a square building (with none of the balconies seen here) that was specifically meant to house workers who were building this part of town in the mid-20's. The one on the right is a rather recent addition built approxmately in 1936. Here we see high wealth people with a desire to live in the city but want out of the low wealth slums that are slowly spreading away from the factories. This has yet to be explained and controlled as the town is slowly getting poorer but the businesses seem to be getting wealthier. The current mayor is a progressive though and is looking into some trust-busting. He evicted (he can, the mayor is very powerful in SimNation as the federal government is weak) and demolished old polluting factories that were run by wealthy plutocrats and divided the land for smaller start up factories to begin.
Ah the simple life...the sims seem to yearn for this. This small town in the NW farming district was built about 1930 when the city's population peaked at 56,000 sims. As the city became crowded a few hundred sims moved west and set up their own farms. There was land availble due to the farm crops prices fallout in the late 20's. This nameless town provided peace and relaxtion for many sims and they plan to live their lives here. But in the 1940's the town became a sort of retirment villa as the farms had bought each other and had formed several conglomerates. The owners of these conglomerate got wealthy and moved to the coastal fishing town of Balmer.
These are several of the small town shops along the beaches in the SE town of Balmer. These are of much simpler design than the Art-Deco Revival towers of Ostrop because the owners are starters and built much of it with their own hands. These 2 were built around 1910 when the first sims finally treked their way to the coast and found it full of fish and setup this little town. The one on the right is a saloon and has a few small specialty shops (one is Fondue Fondler and they have the best fondue shit around! The other is Pants By Marge whose slogan is "With Marge's hands on your pants you feel gooooooood") and upstairs is a premo lounge/inn. The next door was built literally the day after the other and originally had shops and apartments but was later transformed into a insurance agency. The clock tower was only added in 1932 when the insurance agency became sucessful. The agency's HQ is no longer here (they moved into the larger Ben Tower in Ostrop) but they still maintain it as a branch.
See 2nd photo. These shops were buil here to save the local residents the trip to Ostrop for all their goods. The local grocer only carries food from the local farms so its always fresh, the jewler's products are all handmade, the music store has everything from classical Ludwig Von Beetovsim to the punk band Sim Sins, the local bartender will pretty much know your name if you've ever been there, the innkeeper will always have a room for you, the theater is always putting on a classic, blockbuster, or any decent film or play from anyone.
posted by A Crazed Bush Hating Socialist at 6:40 PM
3 Comments:
I gotta say... the Marge's Pants thing made me laugh. Where did you get those small town stores? I've seen them before but I never downloaded them... I NEED them. Like now.
Cancel that, I found them on the STEX. Looks like new stuff for rural Biggieland...
Make sure you have all of them...some of them are not pictured here. There in a tileset called SmalltownUSA
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