# Venues

The game uses two physical Hollywood blocks across three playable venue rows:

- **Hollywood Boulevard** — the 6840 Hollywood Blvd / El Capitan Entertainment
  Centre block, in day and night rows.
- **The Joke Shop** — a fictional comedy club based on the Sunset Strip block
  around 8433 Sunset Blvd.
- **Late Night TV Studio** — the same El Capitan block restaged as a studio
  arrival.

The runtime implementation contract (facade specs, map budgets, navigation,
colliders, phase behavior and fallback) lives in
[`architecture.md`](architecture.md#venue-implementation-contract). This page
keeps the real-site evidence, mapping decisions and deliberate simplifications.

## Hollywood Boulevard

### Real site

- **Address:** 6840 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 90028.
- **Coordinates:** 34.10118 N, 118.34009 W; OpenStreetMap way `424024147`.
- **Building:** the 1921 Hollywood Masonic Temple by John C. Austin, now the El
  Capitan Entertainment Centre and the home of *Jimmy Kimmel Live!*. It is the
  game's starting point for both the Hollywood shift and the TV Studio arrival.
- **Facade:** light stone/render Neoclassical front, six oversized Ionic
  columns, a recessed entrance up eight stone steps, ornamental door grilles,
  a crosscut transom, two side entrances, and the Masonic parapet motto and
  medallions.
- **Neighbours:** the El Capitan Theatre immediately west, a modern retail block
  east, and the Ovation Hollywood frontage across the four-lane boulevard.
- **Sidewalk:** the Walk of Fame terrazzo strip with brass stars; red-painted
  kerb in the reference photographs.

### Game mapping

| Real feature | In-game representation |
| --- | --- |
| 29.6 m wide, 14.5 m high facade | `VENUE_SPECS["hollywood_building"]`, front at `z = -4` |
| Eight stone steps | 8 steps, 0.10 m rise, 0.38 m tread, 12 m wide |
| Six Ionic columns | `IonicColonnade`, 4.96 m bay spacing |
| Central + two side doors | 4.2 m central door, 2.5 m side doors with transoms |
| Red event banners | three stylized `EL / CAPITAN / LIVE` banners |
| Masonic motto + medallions | `FriezeInscription` and two stone discs |
| El Capitan Theatre / east retail | library-neighbour blocks with marquee/blade or glazed shopfront |
| Ovation Hollywood | arcade with seven arched openings, sign and south sidewalk |
| Walk of Fame | dark terrazzo band with ten stars |
| Four-lane boulevard | double-yellow centre, broken white lanes, red kerb, crosswalk |
| TV Studio arrival | same six-column facade/eight steps plus bulb canopy, sedan, handrail and barriers |

The generated references in
[`screens/concepts/hollywood_boulevard/`](screens/concepts/hollywood_boulevard/README.md)
are art direction for lighting, material scale and composition; they are not
texture or geometry sources.

### Late Night TV Studio

The third venue is **not a separate real site**. It reuses the El Capitan block
and restages it as a studio arrival: the same stone facade and steps, plus a
bulb-lit canopy, glossy black car, barrier/stanchion line and audience queue.
`VENUE_SPECS["tv_studio"]` is a 30.0 m variant of the Hollywood spec with the
arrival staging; it shares this block's reference board.

## The Joke Shop

### Real site

| Item | Reference |
| --- | --- |
| Address | 8433 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 |
| Real venue | The Comedy Store (comedy club and theatre) |
| OpenStreetMap | Way [`428854155`](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/428854155), centroid 34.095265, -118.373965 |
| Tags | `amenity=theatre`, `building=commercial`, `height=12.2`, `start_date=1940`, `wikidata=Q3520350` |
| Footprint | OSM polygon about 47.1 m × 41.2 m across the club and rear parcels |
| Street | Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip |
| Setting | Dry Hollywood Hills with houses and palms above the roofline |

The building began as **Ciro's** (1940) and became The Comedy Store in the
early 1970s. Its street front is a low black hall under a deep,
signature-covered canopy, with a circular blade sign above the roof, red
curtains along the frontage and the main entrance set toward the west end.

### Game mapping

| Real element | Game implementation |
| --- | --- |
| Low black comedy hall | 27 m × 12 m footprint, 6.0 m street wall, matte black concrete, low plinth and parapet |
| Deep overhanging canopy | 4.9 m sloped slab at 11°, white signature fascia band and club name |
| Signature-covered front | two `Label3D` signature bands plus a wall panel |
| Circular blade sign | 3.9 m white disc on a roof pole, black `THE JOKE SHOP` wordmark |
| Red curtains | seven tied-back velvet drapes with scalloped hems and dark recesses |
| West-end entrance | recessed at x = -8.8 m, low step, brass pulls, door-lock indicator |
| Practicals | sconces, canopy downlights, entrance wash, ground uplights; off by day, switched at night |
| Neighbours | cream Mediterranean block with red awning; `WestHotelTower` mass behind; white commercial block east |
| Hillside | fog-free unshaded ramp with stucco houses, shrubs and palms; dark silhouette at night |
| Opposite Sunset | low retail row, rooftop billboard, neon and palms beyond the far kerb |
| Street dressing | palms, barriers, stanchions, bins, planters, A-frame, hydrant and parked sedan |

Key proportions are reconciled in the map budget and `VENUE_SPECS`; the full
measured table is retained in the 3D review history. The playable frontage is
27 m, the facade centre is at z = -8.0 and the front face at z = -2.0. The
sidewalk is 38 m × 14 m, meeting the kerb at z = 11.9; the street is 90 m × 24 m.
The guard starts west of the entrance at (-4.8, 0.1, 1.4), facing the approach.

## Deliberate simplifications

- Both blocks are stylized reconstructions, not survey models; show branding is
  replaced by venue-neutral/fictional text while addresses and landmark
  silhouettes are retained.
- Interiors, basements, side streets, the Metro entrance and the Comedy Store's
  rear rooms are out of playable bounds.
- The Ovation frontage is one arcade block, not the full mall plan; neighbouring
  businesses are generic low-rise masses and no current tenant is claimed.
- The Joke Shop's rounded west corner is kept as a hard 90° corner; its hillside
  is a background ramp with simplified houses, not a terrain heightfield.
- Geometry uses boxes, cylinders and a small set of custom arch/star meshes to
  stay inside the Compatibility/Web budget; concept frames are photoreal and the
  runtime keeps a stylized material treatment.
- Day/night is a phase offset on one geometry/scenario, not a second baked map.
  The night row starts in `LATE` while the checkpoint stores the offset.

## References

- [Hollywood Masonic Temple — Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Masonic_Temple)
- [El Capitan Entertainment Centre — OpenStreetMap way 424024147](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/424024147)
- [El Capitan Theatre — OpenStreetMap way 424024148](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/424024148)
- [Ovation Hollywood — OpenStreetMap way 151485232](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/151485232)
- [Hollywood Masonic Temple facade — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Capitan_Theater_frontal_fachade-The_Masonic_Temple.jpg)
- [Hollywood Masonic Temple and El Capitan Theatre, 2013 — Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollywood_Masonic_Temple_2013-10-13_10-02-25.jpg)
- [Comedy Store — OpenStreetMap way 428854155](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/428854155)
- Committed photo boards: [`screens/refs/hollywood/`](screens/refs/hollywood/README.md),
  [`screens/refs/joke-shop/`](screens/refs/joke-shop/README.md); three-up boards
  are in [`screens/boards/`](screens/boards/README.md).
- Local-only research (never committed): `tmp/research/elcapitan-2026/`,
  `tmp/research/jimmy-kimmel-entrance/`, `tmp/research/comedy-store/` and
  `tmp/research/comedy-store-hillside/`. These are evidence for decisions, not
  shipped assets.

## Verification

```bash
godot --headless --path . --script res://src/test/test_runner.gd
godot --path . --script res://src/test/capture_realism.gd -- --out=/tmp/gig-line-venues --stages=day,evening,late,joke_shop_day,joke_shop
python3 tools/check_docs.py
```

The map-budget tests and the venue light-falloff gate are part of the headless
suite; the screenshot/realism gates are optional review evidence.