Q You asked for memorable movies filmed along roadways in our great Bay Area.
Clarence Converse
San Jose
A Indeed I did, both scenes we love and goofs we remember.
Q One of the classics was "Bullitt" in 1968. During the chase scene between Steve McQueen and the bad guys up and down the streets of San Francisco, you will, in certain shots supposedly on different streets, see the same green VW bug being passed by both cars. Look closely at the cars parked along the streets, and you'll see some of the same cars also parked on different streets. It is still a classic and inspired Ford to make a 2008 Bullitt Mustang using the original exhaust sounds from the movie so it would sound the same as the '68 model.Clarence Converse
A "Bullitt" takes top honors for many.
Q Herb Caen decades ago in the '70s pointed out all of the "Bullitt" miscues. Who would know better than Herb (RIP)?Richard Olson
San Mateo
A A legend, and so missed. Now to another McQueen flick.
Q My No. 1 goof: "Towering Inferno" with McQueen and a million other stars. Remember when Fred Astaire approaches the huge Bank of America building by way of escalator? He looks up at the huge, black, intimidating structure, enters, looks
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Richard Olson
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Q In the 1982 movie "Shoot the Moon," starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton, Finney is a writer and they live in West Marin and are going to receive an award in San Francisco. As they drive from West Marin to San Francisco, the aerial shot is of them going across the Bay Bridge. Perhaps the Golden Gate Bridge was fogged in the day they filmed, but no one other than an idiot would drive from West Marin across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, down the 80 freeway and then across the Bay Bridge to reach San Francisco. If you watch this movie and how it ends, you will feel as I did that the writer and director were perhaps doing a little too much cocaine during the making of the movie.John Ruzzo
San Jose
A And "...
Q My all-time favorite use of a Bay Area landmark remains "The Lost Boys." That sweeping shot from the ocean up to the Santa Cruz boardwalk at night is amazing. You can just hear the flutter of bat wings.Cindy Trupski
San Jose
A And "...
Q All my friends from the East Coast want to do when they visit is have their picture taken at the Bixby Bridge south of Carmel. It's been in dozens of movies and about every month I see a commercial with a car driving across it. It has my vote as among the most famous roads in the Bay Area.John Martin
San Jose
A Mine, too. Alas, the closing of Highway 1 south of here means Mrs. Roadshow will skip our planned trip this week to Big Sur.
Q My favorite Bay Area movie scene has got to be the sequence in "Harold and Maude" that was filmed on the old Dumbarton Bridge, including the old tollbooths and the old approach road. The old bridge and the tollbooths are gone, although the approach road (Marshview Road) is still there. "Harold and Maude" has long been one of my favorites, partly because of the dark humor, partly because of the 1959 Cadillac Superior hearse (I used to own a 1959 Caddy ambulance) and partly because of the Jag that was turned into a hearse in the movie.
Neal Parish
Oakland
A A Jag turned into a hearse? Awesome.
Q Best movie for the Bay Area is "Zodiac." I don't remember the Embarcadero Highway, so it was really interesting to see how much of a monstrosity it was.Nate Carlson
Turlock
A You are being too kind.
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