Necropolis
is really Bakersfield, CA
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A city of ghouls built on the ruins of Bakersfield. The Vault Dweller comes here looking for a water chip and finds Vault 12 underneath, whose door was built never to close.
The real place
A Vault-Tec holodisk in the game places Vault 12 beneath Bakersfield. The real city is the seat of Kern County, a centre of oil and farming at the south end of the San Joaquin Valley, and home of the "Bakersfield sound" of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
Visiting
Buck Owens' Crystal Palace, just off Highway 99, has live country music and a small museum. Summer afternoons often pass 38 °C, so plan walks for the morning.
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