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| 1 | Blams | Products | Cigarettes |
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Blams
Ben smokes Blams cigarettes.
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| 2 | Block Health Clinic | Healthcare | Hospitals |
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Block Health Clinic
Benjamin Stuart Reynolds immunized July 2023. Booster September 2023. Block Health Clinic.
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| 3 | The Blue Door | Travel | Lodging-misc |
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The Blue Door
Old rooming house / hotel on State Street in Portland where Ben seeks shelter.
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| 4 | The Brant Hotel | Travel | Hotels |
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The Brant Hotel
Hotel in New York City: He went to earth in the Brant Hotel, a so-so establishment on the East Side. That part of the city had been gradually entering a new cycle of chic. Yet the Brant was less than a mile from Manhattan's own blighted inner city - also the largest in the world. As he checked in, he again thought of Dan Killian's parting words: Stay close to your own people.
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| 5 | Brickhill Manufacturing Company | Companies | Manufacturing |
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Brickhill Manufacturing Company
"There's a box of gummed mailing labels in your suitcase," he said. "That's in the trunk. The stickers say: After five days return to Brickhill Manufacturing Company, Manchester, N.H. Rich and another guy ran em off. They got a press at the Stabbers' headquarters on Boylston Street. Every day you send your two tapes to me in a box with one of those stickers. I'll mail em to Games from Boston. Send me the stuff Speed Delivery. That's one they'll never figure out."
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| 6 | Channel 1 | Video | TV Stations |
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Channel 1
He had a sudden raging urge to make this woman pull over: knock her sunglasses onto the gravel, drag her through the dirt, make her eat a stone, rape her, jump on her, knock her teeth into the air like startled digits, strip her nude and ask her if she was beginning to see the big picture, the one that runs twenty-four hours a day on channel one, where the national anthem never plays before the sign-off.
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| 7 | Dokes | Products | Tobacco Products |
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Dokes
The drizzle had deepened into a steady rain by the time Richards hit the street. The big Smoke Dokes for Hallucinogenic Jokes thermometer across the street stood at fifty-one degrees. "Just the Right Temp to Stoke Up a Doke - High to the Nth Degree!" That might make it sixty in their apartment. And Cathy had the flu.
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| 8 | Dyna-Core | Products | Hardware |
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Dyna-Core
"LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY!" His voice boomed and rolled across the flat jetport acres. Police waited tensely. The crowd shuffled. "I AM CARRYING TWELVE POUNDS OF DYNA-CORE HI-IMPACT PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE IN MY COAT POCKET - THE VARIETY THEY CALL BLACK IRISH. TWELVE POUNDS IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WITHIN A THIRD OF A MILE AND PROBABLY ENOUGH TO EXPLODE THE JETPORT FUEL STORAGE TANKS. IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER, I'LL BLOW YOU ALL TO HELL. A GENERAL ATOMICS IMPLODER RING IS SET INTO THE EXPLOSIVE. I HAVE IT PULLED OUT TO HALF-COCK. ONE JIGGLE AND YOU CAN ALL PUT YOUR HEADS BETWEEN YOUR LEGS AND KISS YOUR ASSES GOODBYE."
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| 9 | Echo Free-Vee Repair | Services | Repair Services |
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Echo Free-Vee Repair
Electronics repair service sign seen during the police chase. "Because you watch it, we won't botch it."
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| 10 | Frisco Push | Products | Narcotics |
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Frisco Push
Also known as San Francisco Push. syntheticamphetamine hallucinogen that goes for twenty oldbucks a tab.
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| 11 | Fun Guns | Video | TV Shows-misc |
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Fun Guns
TV show: Now that his mind was made up, the Games bored him again. Most of the others, however, were watching Fun Guns with a dreadful fascination. Next week it might be them.
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| 12 | General Atomics | Companies | Technology Companies |
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General Atomics
Company where Ben Richards used to work.
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| 13 | General Atomics Imploder Ring | Products | Hardware |
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General Atomics Imploder Ring
Gold ring about two inches in diameter that looks like a keyring with no keys in it. Attached to it is a slim rod like a mechanical pencil with a G-A trigger device attached to it. The trigger device looks like the eraser on the pencil.
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| 14 | Gilly's Town Line Store | Retail | Stores-misc |
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Gilly's Town Line Store
Store that Ben mentions to the Rockland Newsie when he calls, telling them to send a photographer to capture him and his hostage.
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| 15 | Help Pills | Products | Medicine |
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Help Pills
What were they eating this morning? Help pills. Fake milk for the baby. A sudden feeling of desperation swelled over him. Christ when would they start seeing money? Today? Tomorrow? Next week?
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| 16 | The Hicksville Trooper | Technology | Robot Models |
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The Hicksville Trooper
He sounded like a well-programmed machine. General Atomics Model 6925-A9, Richards thought. The Hicksville Trooper. 16-psm Iridium Batteries included. Comes in White Only.
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| 17 | Jarrold's Store | Retail | Stores-misc |
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Jarrold's Store
Location of a mailbox that Rolf mentions, where he'll drop the recorded tapes that Ben needs to send to the Network.
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| 18 | Molie's | Retail | Stores-misc |
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Molie's
Molie ran a Dock Street hockshop where a fellow with enough bucks to spread around could buy a police-special move-along, a full-choke riot gun, a submachine gun, heroin, Push, cocaine, drag disguises, a styroflex pseudo-woman, a real whore if you were too strapped to afford styroflex, the current address of one of three floating crap-games, the current address of a swinging Perverto Club, or a hundred other illegal items. If Molie didn't have what you wanted, he would order it for you.
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| 19 | Move-along | Weapons | Guns |
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Move-along
Police gun.
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| 20 | Municipal Crematorium | Services | Funeral Homes |
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Municipal Crematorium
Where Ben's mother ended up after dying of syphilis, and his brother Todd after a newsie airtruck lost its emergency brake on a hill while Todd was loading it. The kids on the street called it either the Ash Factory or the Creamery, they were bitter but helpless, knowing that they themselves would most likely end up being belched out of the stacks and into the city's air.
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| 21 | The Network | Video | TV Stations |
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The Network
TV station that airs a whole other level of game shows.
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| 22 | The Pleasure of Serving | Literature | Books-Fiction |
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The Pleasure of Serving
Novel brought to Ben Richards in his room the night before The Running Man begins.
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| 23 | Raygon Chemicals | Companies | Chemical Companies |
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Raygon Chemicals
"I thought you'd enjoy the transformation, my good man," Bradley said with quiet dignity. "I'm the district manager for Raygon Chemicals, you know. We do a thriving business in this area. Fine city, Boston. Immensely convivial."
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| 24 | Rockland Newsie | Media | Newspapers-misc |
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Rockland Newsie
Free-Vee Tabloid Number 6943, newspaper that Ben Richards calls, telling them to send a photographer to capture him and his hostage.
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| 25 | Rooty-Toot | Beverage Products | Soft Drinks |
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Rooty-Toot
Soft drink that Killian serves Ben Richards.
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| 26 | Run for Your Guns | Video | TV-Game Shows |
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Run for Your Guns
TV game show on The Network.
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| 27 | The Running Man | Video | TV Shows-misc |
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The Running Man
The network's biggest show, filled with chances for viewer participation, both vicarious and actual. The most lucrative and dangerous for the men involved.
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| 28 | Scag | Products | Narcotics |
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Scag
Recreational drug: Scag is twelve oldbucks a bag, Frisco Push goes for twenty a tab, but the Free-Vee will freak you for nothing.
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| 29 | South City Manual Trades | Education | Schools-misc |
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South City Manual Trades
Ben's last school attended, from September of 2011 until December of 2013.
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| 30 | Southwest Food Depository | Food | Grocery Stores |
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Southwest Food Depository
The great movements of the decade passed by him ignored, like ghosts to an unbeliever. He knew nothing of the Housewife Massacre in '24 until his wife told him about it three weeks later - two hundred police armed with tommy guns and high-powered move-alongs had turned back an army of women marching on the Southwest Food Depository. Sixty had been killed.
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| 31 | Sten Gun | Weapons | Guns |
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Sten Gun
Someone was halfway out of the passenger side of the police car, which was on its way again. A thick stuttering sound filled the dark. Sten gun. Bullets dug through the turf around him in a senseless pattern. Dirt struck his cheeks, pattered against his forehead.
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| 32 | Stockholm Restaurant | Dining | Restaurants-misc |
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Stockholm Restaurant
Richards felt a coolness creep into his testicles. An old man in a threadbare black overcoat sauntered down the side of the street and leaned casually against the building. Two fellows in tartan jumpers got out of a taxi, talking animatedly, and began to study the menu in the window of the Stockholm Restaurant.
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| 33 | Super Pine Tree Mall | Retail | Shopping Centers |
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Super Pine Tree Mall
Shopping mall under construction that Ben enters during the police chase.
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| 34 | Swim the Crocodiles | Video | TV-Game Shows |
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Swim the Crocodiles
TV game show on The Network.
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| 35 | Treadmill to Bucks | Video | TV-Game Shows |
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Treadmill to Bucks
TV game show: Every minute the contestant could stay on the treadmill, keeping up a steady flow of chatter with the emcee, he won ten dollars. Every two minutes the emcee asked a Bonus Question in the contestant's category which was worth fifty dollars. If the contestant, dizzy, out of breath, heart doing fantastic rubber acrobatics in his chest, missed the question, fifty dollars was deducted from his winnings and the treadmill was speeded up.
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| 36 | Vendo-Spendo Company | Food | Food Companies |
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Vendo-Spendo Company
The door opened, and Elton Parrakis walked in. He was immensely fat, and his lackluster blond hair was combed back in preposterous waves from his forehead to show a round baby face that held an element of perpetual puzzlement. He was wearing the blue and gold uniform of the Vendo-Spendo Company. He looked thoughtfully at Virginia Parrakis.
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| 37 | Voigt Airfield | Travel | Airports |
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Voigt Airfield
The car crawled slowly down the four-lane access road between the parked police cars, between the ceaseless scream and babble of the crowd. A sign loomed over them: VOIGT AIRFIELD. The woman could see an electrified cyclone fence which crossed a marshy, worthless sort of field on both sides of the road. Straight ahead was a combination information booth and check-in point on a traffic island.
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