Autotech...

That's awesome! Please post it as soon as you take a picture.

Edited: I just saw that there's a business called Auto Tech Stereo at that address (http://www.google.com/search?sa=X&oi=fw ... 5-495-8882). They install car alarm systems (at least, that's their cover! ). I would be interested in seeing a picture anyway.

Uh Oh. If that is real. And Coit tower is a real landmark. Maybe there is a Brew and Stew? I've always wanted to try the armageddon blend ...

The first time I drove through San Fransciso, and found out there was a Coit tower, I thought it was wonderful. Next time I get a load to California (which may not be any time in the future due to the current gas problems, unfourtanetly), And I run near SF, I'm going to look for Autotech if I get a 32 hour reset near there. I'll see just what it is they have there. Unless of course I'm pulled into a shady speed ... I mean car, and I'm interrogated for my nosiness. I don't want to be referred to as a loose end, after all. Or a bad memory for that matter.

Seriously, that is cool. I wonder how many other landmarks actually exsist in SF that were in the game? Wouldn't it be cool if someone posted that there really was a bunker in Roswell? Eh?

If anyone uses Google Earth, you can see Coit Tower here:
37°48'8.68"N 122°24'21.10"W

Just type this in to the search bar. Also, for a picture of Lombard St. (and insight as to why that character path in the game was named for it) see:
37°48'7.57"N 122°25'8.17"W

That's cool. Let's all buy trenchcoats and sneak in! Watch out for the security robots, I'll be bringing my own desk on wheels to scoot around behind. What? It's not cheating!

You must mean the security robots they installed after Tex mopped up the floor with the security personnel.

So these places in the games really exist out there. I didnt know that, good job for finding this out.

I've actually been to Coit Tower back in 2003 when I went there with a bunch of my co-students at the multimedia designer education I attended back then. Got some nice photos from there as well

As far as I know - Mission and Lombard Street are also real streets of San Francisco - Mission Street actually being a quite large street. Lombard Street is located pretty close to Coit Tower as well. In Pandora Mac Malden tells Tex that the brown paper wrapper came from the post office in the Mission District. That's also a real district of San Francisco.

I guess one of the closest Chandler Avenue's I could sniff up was in North Hollywood, LA, so I guess they made that one up

Yeah, Mission Street is the "straight and narrow" (although not so straight or narrow) inspiration for the name of the goody-two-shoes character path. Here's the straightest part of it:
37°43'22.25"N 122°26'11.08"W

Chandler Avenue was named by the game creators for Raymond Chandler, the author of the Big Sleep and many other hard-boiled detective novels, so it's not real If we were to locate it, though, in a post-apocalyptic SF, it would need to be near Coit Tower...as would the ruins of the short-lived Barney the Dinosaur Theme Park that Tex refers to as "Barney Rubble"

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a creation as well. It's probably to be identified with an alley somewhere...

Yes, Lombard is cut in two by Telegraph Hill, the location of Coit Tower. Hey, that's why I have a hard time doing anything but Lombard Street in the game! It's literally much "closer to home" than the other paths.

Lombard is fairly famous.

Mission is a long street, but the most notable area is in the Mission District, which is a Latin area. They have some of the best mexican food anywhere there.

http://www.sftravel.com/lomabardcrookedstreet.html

I hope if they do ever remake a Tex game that they include even more references from the city. There's so many to choose from - The Presidio, Japantown/Chinatown, Union Square, Fort Mason, Pacifica, etc.

Hey, I remember flying over that street in GTA San Andreas

hehe.

I wanna see a picture of Autotech. Musta been real cool to notice that! I love seeing things in games in real life...never really knew why...just the familiarity is cool. For example... I just watched that new Dukes of Hazzard movie and there's Barry Corbin in nearly the first scene of the movie. It was great!