# Where were they? (Road to Perdition question, possible spoilers)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 21, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-they-road-to-perdition-question-possible-spoilers/170061 "2003-04-21T16:18:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-they-road-to-perdition-question-possible-spoilers/170061/1 "2003-04-21T16:18:30Z")

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In a scene in _Road to Perdition_, Mike Sullivan drops his son off to a place that has a rows and rows of men and women reading newspapers while he (Sullivan) goes to see Tucci’s character.

What was this place? Was it some sort of antiquated periodical reading room?

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-they-road-to-perdition-question-possible-spoilers/170061/2 "2003-04-21T16:31:34Z")

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I got the impression it was an employment office of some sort, it being the depression and all.

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**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-they-road-to-perdition-question-possible-spoilers/170061/3 "2003-04-21T16:33:49Z")

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I don’t know why, but the impression I got was that it was a train station or bus station…

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**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-they-road-to-perdition-question-possible-spoilers/170061/4 "2003-04-21T16:52:35Z")

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I thought it was a train/bus station, too. My hubby said it wasn’t, though, because there were no signs or such indicating so.

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**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-they-road-to-perdition-question-possible-spoilers/170061/5 "2003-04-21T18:04:56Z")

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This should really be in Café Society…