LA Noire - Part # 22 "Nicholson Electroplating"
71 - If you go past the suitcase clue at the explosion sight, there is a Bible and body parts next to it. An arm can be examined.
2 - The case is loosely based on the real-life 1947 explosion of O'Connor Electro-plating, south of downtown Los Angeles, which was caused by a perchloric acid reaction. Information about the real case and the scene as it appears today on the 1947 project time travel blog.
3 - The Mayor of L.A. and the Chief of Police are both featured in the case, and can be seen at the Nicholson Electroplating Plant remains at the start of the case.
4 - The television crew seen at the Plant contains numerous historical inaccuracies and oversights by the developers. The call letters printed on the van, "W4XYZ", were assigned to an experimental television station in Hollywood that was licensed in 1939 and signed on in 1942, but in January 1947 W4XYZ became the first non-experimental station west of the Mississippi and changed its callsign to KTLA (which it still uses today.) The camera has a nameplate reading "WRC-TV Channel 4", which are the call letters and channel position for the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. WRC wasn't known as WRC until 1954. It signed on as experimental station W3XNB and recieved the calls WNBW in June 1947, during the period that L.A. Noire takes place. This is likely an oversight bt the developers, as there is no reason for a small local station from the east coast to be in Los Angeles.
5 - Like many things in L.A. Noire, even the television station's van and camera signage were sourced from real life.
6 - There seems to be a historical inaccuracy with one of Bigg's statements at the beggining of the case. During the explosion of the plant, Bigg's states "Do you think those Russki sons of bitches dropped the H-bomb on us?". L. A. Noire takes place during 1947 and though the idea of the of the hydrogen bomb was suggested in 1941, serious developement did not occur until the early 1950s, with the first detonation, Condename "Ivy Mike", occuring on Novemeber 1, 1952. However, Ivy Mike was of American origin, not Russian. The first Russian test, Codename RDS-6, occurred on August 12, 1953. It could be likely that the developers accidently confused the H-Bomb with the A-Bomb, however the first Russian nuclear test did not occur until August 29, 1949.
7 - This is the only mission in which a NPC possesses one of the Hidden Cars. The head of security for Hughes Aircraft , Vernon Mapes, has a Tucker Torpedo, which you can take after investigating the hangar. Coincidentally (or not), a Tucker Torpedo is also parked in the hidden vehicle garage across the street from the explosion site.
8 - As with most destroyed buildings, you can examine the intact building by going "back in time" and visiting the site via Free Roam; note you cannot access the interior area of Nicholson Electroplating until the front of the building is destroyed.
9 - This is the only time in the game you get to visit the interior of the Hughes hangar and the Spruce Goose as both are off-limits in Free Roam.
10 - Several Nash Deluxe 600 Army cars are parked on the Hughes Aircraft site; this, along with the military training base in Boyle Heights, are the only places where they can be unlocked for the Auto Fanatic achievement. Fortunately the cars are always parked here, even outside of the mission.
11 - The woman in the two photos in Vernon Mapes' Hughes Aircraft office is real-life Hollywood actress Marie McDonald.
12 - Although it's not necessary for clue-finding or progressing the mission, it's possible to climb the scaffolding and walk along the top of the Spruce Goose.
Other Videos By NeopantomIme
Other Statistics
L.A. Noire Statistics For NeopantomIme
NeopantomIme currently has 6,293 views spread across 47 videos for L.A. Noire. There's over 1 day worth of watchable video for L.A. Noire published on his channel, making up less than 0.40% of the total overall content on NeopantomIme's YouTube channel.