Culture
One Man Scours San Francisco for the Traces of Film Noir
Brian Hollins has spent the last 16 years on the trail of movie locations all over the city.
On The Job is a series of conversations with the people who keep neighborhoods running.
The scene of protagonist Archie Bollen and his girlfriend May sitting on the balcony of a charming Victorian house in San Francisco lasts only a few seconds in the 1968 psychedelic movie Petulia. But it sent Brian Hollins, who’s adopted the nickname City Sleuth, on a weeks-long hunt to track down its exact location in real life.