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About This File
If you have ever traveled extensively up and down Interstate 5, you've probably seen Waddle's as you drive into or out of Oregon. How hard is it to miss as it boldly commands you to EAT NOW in blazing red neon? For lovers of modernist architecture and roadside Americana, this building blends both, as envisioned by Pietro Belluschi back in 1945 (before he became really famous). With all of the changes that have occured on Hayden Island, the area of Portland, Oregon that Waddle's is located, this building managed to survive: Closure of the streetcar lines and amusement parks, widening of US 99 into Interstate 5, several remodels and a changing customer base.
But sadly it couldn't keep going. This Ducky Drive-in closed for good on May 23, 2004 after nearly 50 years in business. It is surely missed. Luckily the new occupants of the building decided to keep it, making some minor changes to the exterior, but turning the place into a Hooter's. You just have to commend Hooters for their sense of historical preservation.
Still, "Big Duck" lives on, if not in real life, then in SimCity. Order up some Ducky Burgers. Walk in, Waddle out one last time at Waddle's!
Historical and pics from 2004 included in the readme.
Extra BATer's commentary: Finally after 3 years I finish this one! I guess I finally figured out all the things I needed to learn in order to do so. Better late than never I guess!
Also this is my first lot offering multilingual versions: German and US/UK English. A big shout out is in order to Andreas_Roth for helping correct my beginner's German and helping beta test the German modding!
No need to worry about downloading extra stuff to get it to work in English or German, everything needed is in the lots included. Your version of SC4 will take care of the rest. (Lots will default to English for other languages). Spanish and French versions may come in the future. That is whenever I can get a refresher course on them or find people willing to translate and beta test on SC4 in those languages.
Installation Instructions:
Unzip and run the installer program. Files will unzip to C:/...my documents/SimCity 4/Plugins/Sparkythepenguin/waddles/
(you may change the destination if you wish). You may then go through and remove undesired versions.
Stats:
Lot: 3x5
The growable lots should grow only as stage 3 New York tiles.
CS lot jobs: 70 CO$$/100 CS$
Contents:
* Read-me & associated photos
* Custom Query DAT
* Waddles files:
Main building BAT files:
* CS$$ Growable (lot&Desc)
* CS$$ Plopable
* Static Landmark
dependencies:
None!
Bugs/glitches/annoyances:
The entire lot will highlight when queried. I had to make a groundplane and export it, along with everything else, as one model file. I know that looks weird, but I'd rather have that than shadow problems, light problems, and/or parts overlapping the lot!
Part of Around the Roses: The Portland and Oregon BAT Project.
Latest page at time of uploading | Front Page/BAT list
Proudly bringing you the best of the City of Roses and The Beaver State since 2002! Please report any problems with this file to our thread or
PM sparkythepenguin here at Simtropolis.
Enjoy!
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