From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 7: The True Horror in Hitchcock Films

The Brussels Journal ^ | 2009-01-31 19:23 | Takuan Seiyo

[ihatedemocrats]

I used to live in San Francisco. The San Francisco that despite having been roiled by hippies, beatniks, anti-this-and-that, still had the feel of the charming, civilized town that it had been when Alfred Hitchcock was shooting his masterpieces there.

Observe the setting of Davidson’s Pet Shop in The Birds. It’s a staged scene, but this is San Francisco’s Union Square in 1962-3 and that is the way middle class people looked and dressed in San Francisco. Tippi Hedren is an upper class society girl in this movie, so perhaps her suit has a finer cut and her clutch purse a higher price tag – but watch the other people milling about (and don’t miss Hitch himself).

Union Square was where middle class San Franciscans, dressed in suits, white shirts and ties for men, and high heels, ankle-length dresses, gloves and often hats for women, shopped. I don’t know what exactly was in the building that in this film is set up (1) as a pet store, but now it’s Louis Vuitton. Only Japanese and Chinese tourists shop there, plus the significant others, female and homosexual male, of the ultra-liberal LeftoDemocrat chieftains of the city.

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Union Square now reeks of urine and reverberates with the shrieks of lunatics who use its sidewalks and benches as their bedroom, kitchen and toilet. It’s no longer politically acceptable to call them crazy or to put them in institutions. Besides, California doesn’t have the money. It has given the bounty robbed from its taxpayers to Mexican and other “Hispanic” legal and illegal immigrants (now 37% of California’s residents), and to public employees’ unions who thrive from dispensing the ransom to the colonizing aliens.

[RaceBannon]

This is a pretty smart guy!

[Oldexpat]

Boy do I feel the same. The first time I visited SF was in 1966 on the way to Hawaii and Vietnam. I stayed at the St. Francis Hotel in a corner room over looking Union Square. It was a wonderous place then. I wandered around the Square and thought it was the most magnificent city I had ever visited.
Now...I probably will never go again. My last visited there for business were a disappointment of paradise and maybe our whole country lost to liberalism.

[kaehurowing]

My folks used to go to San Francisco when I was a little kid. I remember what a beautiful city it was, and how well everyone dressed. It’s a total dump now compared to what it used to be.