There are many commercial brands and stores advertising their products on the streets of the Cursed Apple. Here's a list of them and their possible real world inspirations.
Summary
- Afterlife Credit House
- Astral Plane Canned Centipede
- Baroness Hotel - Baroness Hotel in Seattle, WA (Valve's home city)
- Bradley's Tonics and Salves
- Carpenter Brand Sparkling Brut - French musician Carpenter Brut
- C. M. Burns & Ashe Cremations - Charles Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons, also a pun on "see them burn"
- Filtered Nationals
- Five Eyes
- Friedlander and Koppelman Co. Law and Curse
- Grebb
- Happy Panda Coffee
- Hellmans Steel and Iron Works
- Hex Jazz Records
- H. West Reanimation Professionals - H.P. Lovecraft's short story Herbert West-Reanimator
- Macksound and Hoff Importers of Occultic Goods
- McMahon and Co. Purveyor of Fine Goods and Altercations
- Mosquito Prince
- Prince-S All Brand Guild Society Revue
- Red Cross Cola - Coca Cola
- Red Hand Premium Coffee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song Red Right Hand
- Rn Castevets Twin Omen Cigar - The Castevets family from the movie Rosemary's Baby
- Sanctuary Horn Wax
- Sanguine Laceration
- Talisman Brand Amulets
- The 66th Store
- The New York Oracle - The New York Times
- W.E. Kurtz & Sons - Colonel Kurtz from the movie Apocalypse Now
- White Crow
- Willeford Pharmaceuticals - American detective fiction author Charles Willeford
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Trivia
- Happy Panda Coffee replaced a poster from Neon Prime that read "Sad Panda Coffee - Always Bitter".