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In lugnet.general, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> G'day,
>
> I was looking through my small collection of instructions the other day, and
> I noticed that on almost every set of instructions for town there is a
> picture of a town made up from sets available at the time the set was, but
> with the USA/Canada[1] version of 675 [snack bar] there is a hospital that I
> have never seen before.[2] This led me to the question...did LEGO only use
> actual sets in these pictures, did they use sets that were being planned as
> well, or did they just decide to build this one-off model for the picture?
>
> Any help would be appreciated (I can try and scan the image if requested,
> too.)
No need to scan it, it was in the '79 US catalog:
http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1979/c79us/c79us-11.html
I would guess it was a promotional set or something. I don't think they would
have used a non-set for that image.
> Strangely enough, this building appears on a 'T' intersection road plate and
> the other sets shown all appear on the base-plates that they were released
> on, with the only other road-plate set shown being the police station.
I'd also guess that it was released on that plate, if it is a real set.
Jeff
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