Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco

NYT ^ | Oct 8, 2018 | Thomas Fuller

[KyCats]

There’s a pretty cool car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco in this otherwise really lousy movie called “Jade”:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113451/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_14

[jimtorr]

I saw nothing like this when I visited San Francisco in the 1990s. Things have gone downhill there since then.

I took my mother to see Riverdance at a theater in San Francisco one Friday night in 1991. After the show, we had to step over people sleeping in doorways and on the sidewalk all down the block to the parking garage.

I said then that I would never return to SF unless I had to. I've kept my word. I've only returned once, to the passport office.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It was still a Republican, family-friendly city in 1958 when “Vertigo” was made. 10 years later, it went insane.

[HereInTheHeartland]

And of course Bullitt.
Best car chase scene, plus Steve McQueen was a real cool guy.

[wally_bert]

Gee, Mr. Rush.