I love San Francisco.  I mean, I like where I live and I’m not looking to move but if I had to move, My first choice would be San Francisco.

My brother lives there and that means I’ve been there enough to be quite familiar with the city.  So familiar, in fact, that when I watch a film like The Lineup, which is set in San Francisco, I find myself distracted by where certain scenes are taking place.

For instance, one of the scenes in the film takes place in front of the Cliff House.  I’ve eaten in the Cliff House.  The film was made in 1958 so next to the Cliff House you can see the Sutro baths, which burned down in 1966.

I’ve walked around the ruins of the bath houses with my kids.  It’s national park land now.  All I was thinking when watching that scene was how I was seeing what the Sutro baths looked like when they were actually there. I couldn’t honestly tell you what happened in the scene because I was geeking out about the location.

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