Kadie's Club Pecos, a strip club/bar where Nancy Callahan and Shellie work, and Dwight McCarthy and Marv hang out.

Hartigan and Roark Junior have their first confrontation here in That Yellow Bastard, and Marv drives a stolen police car off one of the piers at the beginning of The Hard Goodbye.

The Docks, a collection of wharfs and warehouses that are local to the Projects.

Marv was born in the Projects and they make Dwight sick. Its inhabitants have apparently evolved their own independent society with almost no legal contact with the outside world.

The Projects, the run-down and poor side of Sin City, is a tangle of high-rise apartments where crime runs rampant.

In addition, the people charged with governing the city, most of them from the Roark line, remained in power for generations, running it as they saw fit.Īs the various yarns progress, the audience gradually becomes familiar with key locations in and around Basin City. Over the years, as the Roark family migrated into other areas of business and power, these women ended up forming the district of Old Town, the prostitute quarter of the city where they rule with absolute authority. Only a handful of the cops are honest, though frequently the wealthy of the city bribe the corrupt members of the police into performing their duty (usually as a result of some crime being committed against a member of their family).įrank Miller using high contrasts in Sin Cityĭuring the California Gold Rush, the Roark family 'imported' a large number of attractive women to keep the miners happy, making a fortune and turning a struggling mining camp into a thriving, bustling city. Those who make up the force have been described as commonly being lazy, cowardly and/or corrupt.

The Basin City Police are more or less along the lines of paramilitary or SWAT, as they have to deal with incredibly high crime rates among criminals and civilians alike, which is why they have access to what most would consider 'heavy weaponry' and full body armour. Desert lizards and palm trees are common, while tar pits, desert areas, mountain ranges and flat farmland make up the landscape around the city. In the comics, Basin City has a surreal, pan-American feel. Usually twice a year, a major downpour comes, and (in That Yellow Bastard) the city gets heavy snowfall in the winter. A major river runs through the city, which has an extensive waterfront. The climate is hot and arid, although Sacred Oaks is characterized as being heavily wooded. Basin City, almost universally referred to by the nickname Sin City, is a fictional town in the American west.

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