Post by amyghost on Jul 8, 2018 17:25:14 GMT
There are, also, venues from Vertigo, which have disappeared.
-Ernie's Restaurant, where Scotty first sees Madeleine, changed hands, but remained a restaurant for some time. I'm not sure what it is, now. Since retiring, I don't get to that part of town often.
-Podesta Baldacchi, the upscale flower shop where Madeleine bought the bouquet, before going to view Carlotta's portrait, closed many years ago.
-The large building that served as Carlotta's hotel/rooming house, has been gone for decades.
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Not from a film, but The Fox Theater, on Market St., fell to the wrecker's ball, in the late 60's. It was tragic! There was a massive effort/protest to save it. But, somehow, $$$$ seems to win. It's now a monolithic office, and apartment complex.
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BTW ... Amyghost, it's great to see you again!!
Oh, how I'd love to visit San Francisco. And if I could go back in time and see it when Vertigo was filmed, I'd be delirious. The real star of the film for me is less Stewart and Novak than those magical, misty, pastel-tinted backdrops of the city on those rising hills. It's probably changed a lot from that era, but I'll bet it's still a gorgeous place.
I totally get you about the theater. I hate like sin to see these places fall so that some developer can put up their butt-ugly po-mo mall architecture in its place. Where I am there are still a lot of lovely old historic buildings around, but that fate has befallen too many, and there's still a fight to save others from that sort of misguided and short sighted 'improvement'.