Re: RARA-AVIS: San Francisco visit

From: david david (davividavid@yahoo.com)
Date: 07 Apr 2009

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    Hey John, There's also a really fantastic pulp bookstore downtown called Kayo - check it out when you're in the city. They have limited hours but will open up for out of town visitors if you let them know when you're coming:

    http://www.kayobooks.com/

    --- On Sat, 4/4/09, Jeff Vorzimmer <jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote:

    > From: Jeff Vorzimmer <jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com>
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: San Francisco visit
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 10:46 PM
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    > John,
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    > City Lights in North Beach carries a lot of stuff average
    > bookstores don't carry such as all the Stark House
    > titles. They also have their own imprint known mostly for
    > publishing Beatnik authors such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso,
    > Burroughs, etc. and that's their specialty to this day,
    > but they also publish a series called City Lights Noir,
    > which prints titles by European authors such as Manchette. I
    > always drop at least a hundred bucks when I go there.
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    > There's another used bookstore right around the corner
    > on Broadway (where the Beat museum is) that has a pretty
    > good selection of hardboiled crime fiction. It just a few
    > doors down from where El Matador used to be.
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    > San Francisco itself has a lot of history related to
    > hardboiled crime fiction. It was the setting for books such
    > as The Maltese Falcon and Willeford titles such as Pick Up,
    > Wild Wives and the High Priest of California, Richard
    > Neely's the Plastic Nightmare (made into the movie
    > Shattered) and dozens of others. Hitchcock shot Vertigo
    > there as well as scenes from The Birds (mostly shot in
    > Bodega Bay--north of SF). There's a Hammett tour I
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    > A friend of mine from S.F. has put together an on line tour
    > of shots from Vertigo and what those places look like today.
    > It's called Vertigo... Then and Now and can be found
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    > http://www.basichip
    > .com/vertigo/ main.htm
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    > Have Fun,
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    > > My job is sending me to San Francisco in early May.
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    > > Any hardboiled/noir bookstores, tours, sights to
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    > > Any hb/noir/detective books featuring the city
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    > > Thanks in advance.
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    > > John Stickney
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