Sammy's Brews and Billiards

The first entry in my Riverview Revamped series: Sammy's Brews and Billiards.

Riverview's after-work watering hole, Sammy's Brews and Billiards is the place to wet your whistle and rack 'em up at the end of a long day at the fish hatchery or the Doo Peas corporate tower.

There's a bar, a pool hall, an upstairs arcade, and "tavern rooms" for those times when you have to work late and can't make it home. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Below ground, there are washrooms . . . and behind a hidden door posing as a library bookcase, a secret gambling club. Blackjack!

As perhaps you can tell, for the new Riverview, I'm aiming to pay homage to the communities, countryside, and culture of the Upper Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. Think Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Mark Twain, and Samuel (aka Sammy!) Langhorne Clemmons--all living together, side by side, in the modern Midwestern U.S. Gazing toward the future, feet firmly planted in the present, with the wind of the past always at their backs.

Riverfront rowhouses, 1950s shopping centers, and a real downtown. Horse country. Blue collar. Factories. Farmlands. About as Middle America as you can get in the Sims 3.

There's more to come: I'm working on a new public gym and swim center (not as expensive as Mr. Crunches, not as depressing as the Riverfront Swim Club), a department store, a hotel, a diner, a blues and jazz club, and a dairy farm. To name but a few.

Roll on, Big River.