SFist: Photo du Jour 43

January 26, 2008

Photo du Jour 43

Given / Harvey Milk's old camera store (Rob Cox)

Shot in the Castro this week, the neighborhood is made to appear as its halcyon, pre-Staph era days for Gus Van Sant's Milk.

By Brock in Miscellaneous | Link | Comments (11) | Recommend this! (1) |

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Comments (11)

[1] | 01/26/08 03:13PM

I wonder how they are addressing making the smart-card parking meters look like they're from the 70s

[2] | 01/26/08 04:02PM

they got rid of the bus shelter by castro station which was pretty awesome in the rain yesterday

i saw a bunch of sweet old cars though including a 70s pontiac firebird

[3] | 01/26/08 05:07PM

twosticks: they're actually putting plastic covers over the meters to make them look old. I saw one knocked off onto the sidewalk this morning.

Brock: how long is every post you make referencing the Castro going to also reference staph? It? Is getting old.

[4] | 01/26/08 05:26PM

until mid-february.

[5] | 01/26/08 05:59PM

Or until the Castro stops being the west coast's leading vector for new and exciting STDs. Which will come first, I wonder?

[6] | 01/26/08 08:33PM

It was cool to see the "retro-fication" of the Castro today. The sign on the Castro Theater looks FABULOUS! It is interesting that so little needs to change in SF to recreate the 1970s.

[7] | 01/26/08 08:41PM

The question is: how are the drugs? Or does GVS not have that kind of attention to detail?

[8] | 01/27/08 06:57AM

Actually, DC1974, the photo taken above is the scene where Harvey meets Cleve Jones (played by the adorable Emile Hirsch) as Sean, as Harvey, is passing out flyers to "Vote!" in front of the camera store, and shouting things like "Legalize pot!" to passersby.

[9] | 01/27/08 04:54PM

Woo-hoo! Because I was thinking today about what pre-1980s Castro would mean: sex with anything that moves! better and cheaper drugs! and of course, chest hair. why couldn't i have been born twenty years earlier? the 1970s were the best.

[10] | 01/27/08 06:57PM

The crew has been really great. They have been totally cool with the neighbors. They have made a point to be espeically nice to my daughter. That always scores points with us moms. It's fun to watch the Castro transform into my childhood days. I think it's great that they're filming here. IMO, parking and traffic are really no worse. Minor inconvienence at best.

I have a few notes, but only ones due to accuracy. Clobba used to be a hair salon. They just made it a 70's clothing store for the film, and the Castro florist used to be up closer to Cliff's. But hey, who really cares? I'm the only one who will probably know the difference. Harvey Milk's camera store looks great.

All in all, it's good times in the Castro. I just want to know if they are going to transform "The Glass Coffin" back to its non-tranlucent days.....bring back the 7-up billboard!

[11] | 01/27/08 09:54PM

Gotta revert Walgreens to the "Star Pharmacy" ... and the wonderful ladies who worked there with their uber-poofy hair.

The #'s 24 and 33 MUNI were regular buses, not trolleys so there were no overhead wires except for the telephone type.

The store (Diesel?) at Harvey Milk Plaza was the Bank of America -- no ATM in 70's. (Got cash at night and weekends at Safeway -- $40 maximum if your card was on file.)