begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
Continuing the plan to offer famous locations associated with Gangster/Beer Wars/Detective roleplaying games, Mean Sets has added the most famous flower shop in Chicago's history.
Schofield's Flower Shop was co-owned by Charles "Deanie" O'Banion, the original leader of the North Side gangs who went into the bootlegging business with the advent of Prohibition. A good church-going Catholic lad, "Deanie" rarely missed a mass at Holy Name Cathedral (just across the street from the shop) – or his man when enforcing his business practices. And when any prominent member of gang society very suddenly succumbed to lead poisoning, it was his flower shop that everyone turned to for the most effusive floral tributes.
But when in 1924 The Big Fellow running the South Side gang's decided O'Banion was violating their agreements to split the city's unquenchable thirst, he sent three torpedoes from out of town to balance the books. And so "Deanie" went down in the opening act of the Beer Wars between Al Capone and the next "King for a Day" of the North Side gangs, a war that did not effectively end until the next big occasion for flowers – St. Valentine's Day five years later.
Now, Beer Wars and gangster gamers can take their business to Schofield's whenever they want, with the addition of the shop's front and interior. Based on contemporary photographs and crime-scene illustrations from the local papers, the flower shop can be yet another location for your characters to work their plots and your crime fighters to visit for information. Graphics of flowers for sale fill the front windows and the storage cabinets on the walls, and when looking out the front windows to the street, you can actually see Holy Name Cathedral, much as "Deanie" did over the shoulders of his last customers!
Another PDF file for self-printing and easy assembly, Schofield's Flower Shop is available for only $10.00 USD and delivered free via email. For more particulars and to order, please visit this link. And for even more photos of this particular model, you may also go to the Mean Sets photo page. You'll need to scroll down both pages to find this newest addition, but I think you'll enjoy the scenery on the way!
P.S. Vignette and photos courtesy of the United Kingdom's Nick Buxey!