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[QUESTION] Location of Cannoli eating shot?
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MrCthulhu2U
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 		[QUESTION] Location of Cannoli eating shot?
The background image of the Twitter page shows Chuck eating a canoli in what appears to be Little Italy, NY. I'm wondering if anyone can put a location to that picture as we did with the ChinaTown video. Who knows, maybe revealed locations over time will reveal a map of sorts like the one in M:ARH.

I took a stroll up Mulberry St in Google Street View but nothing jumped out. Some searches on the signs visible in the image also was unsuccessful but they're a bit hard to read.

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 		I think you had it right with Mulberry Street. The sign to Chuck's left looks to me like it could be a sign for Sambuca's Cafe judging by the font I can read there. It's located at 105 Mulberry St.


The sign behind him to the right 'looks' like it could read Piccola Italia, but I can only find restaurants by that name in Jersey.


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MrCthulhu2U
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 		Yeah, that matches up locationwise, but not sign wise. It looks like it was taking right outside of Sambuca's at 105 Mulberry St., NY, NY but the 'italia' sign in the upper right is no longer there in streetview which means it's older, newer, or altered.


Actually, that Italia sign looks a bit like a banner, perhaps used for the San Gennaro festival or some other event.

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MrCthulhu2U wrote:
Yeah, that matches up locationwise, but not sign wise. It looks like it was taking right outside of Sambuca's at 105 Mulberry St., NY, NY but the 'italia' sign in the upper right is no longer there in streetview which means it's older, newer, or altered.


Actually, that Italia sign looks a bit like a banner, perhaps used for the San Gennaro festival or some other event.


You're right. Look at the Italian flags all over the place, and the streetlamp decorations. And he probably picked up the cannoli off a cart. I'm guessing it could have just as easily been a zeppoli.

edit: Also, Piccola Italia means "Little Italy" ^^

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 		Sambucca's is well regarded for its pastries (according to yelp reviews.) Not that any of this matters, but I'm guessing the Cannoli is from there.

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MrCthulhu2U wrote:
Sambucca's is well regarded for its pastries (according to yelp reviews.) Not that any of this matters, but I'm guessing the Cannoli is from there.


As an aside, that place is meh. I'd buy it off a cart first lol.

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 		Who is this Chuck, and what is he looking for?
Does Chuck look at anything of possible importance in the video? The fact that the pamplet has eyesight lines drawn from Chuck makes me think that he's supposed to point something out in the video.

At 1:45 in the video, there is a glass of some red juice roughly the same position away from him as the picture of him and the pie in the pamplet. He's not actually looking directly at it, so I'm probably finding things that aren't there, but the juice seemed odd to me to begin with. Not too many red drinks. And I know there has been some talk about the color red in the game.

Also, the poem refers to Chuck as a duke. Is that of importance?

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chateauRat002a wrote:
Also, the poem refers to Chuck as a duke. Is that of importance?


Other than this:

ThisIsMyMilwaukee wrote:
When asked by a duke where best to make his home, Voltaire replied: "Plant your family tree in the soil of the arts." Voltaire would feel right at home in Milwaukee.


...I can't think of anything.

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Anonymous wrote:
chateauRat002a wrote:
Also, the poem refers to Chuck as a duke. Is that of importance?


Other than this:

ThisIsMyMilwaukee wrote:
When asked by a duke where best to make his home, Voltaire replied: "Plant your family tree in the soil of the arts." Voltaire would feel right at home in Milwaukee.


...I can't think of anything.


Well, it's also important in that the America we know does not have a British peerage system. Either he's a foreign duke ( -- but the accent he uses when saying "this is MY Milwaukee" sounds pretty American to me -- ) or there are duchys/dukedoms in Active America, or "duke" is being used appellatively to signify his high powerclass.

The video stated that you'd need to be Powerclass 20+ to survive in the catacombs under the Canning District, and I believe on a Mike Russo call he listed Chuck Jagoda as someone who could (IIRC?), but the table in Haven lists Powerclass 40+ as being eligible for a "franchising opportunity" with FeBrizzio's -- and since Jagoda DOES seem to have a Brizzi's franchise attached to his museum, it suggests his powerclass may be 40 or higher, perhaps warranting a classification of "Duke" comparitively.

Just some thoughts. <3

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 		Chuck is also shown to be the Duke by one of his tweets describing his dream:
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She leaned over and kissed me gently on the cheek. "You are tired, Duke Chuck, and so now I plant the seed."


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 		Also perhaps of note, the M:ARH mentions The Dinosaur Viceroy, although that title is more of a political appointment for someone who acts as the territorial governing representative of a Monarch, rather than a title of Nobility in a Peerage system.

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 		There were French and Spanish Viceroys in America in 19th(?) century. Could it be that Europeans are dinosaurs?

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kyuurijanaidesu
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Grue wrote:
There were French and Spanish Viceroys in America in 19th(?) century. Could it be that Europeans are dinosaurs?


Britain also utilised a Viceroy system in India around the same time frame, so this could very well be. Or it could just be John Hammond got a wild hair up his arse.

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