101 List: Golden Gate Bridge and OFC
Categories: Travel, Hollywood, 101 in 1001
Date: Monday, 26 November 2007, at 10:21 am
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Over the long Thanksgiving weekend, I went back to see my family in the San Francisco Bay Area where I completed two of my 101 List items.
The original list item #83 said to go to the top of one of the Golden Gate Bridge towers, but, unfortunately, that’s just not allowed anymore due to superfluous security measures enacted since 11 September 2001. So, I did the next best thing — flying in a helicopter above said towers. Thank you to the gracious pilot for taking me up during the holidays! We also flew over San Francisco and the East Bay, and I took about 200 photos for my location scout archives.
The second item completed was #85 which said to go on a tour of the Oakland Film Center which my longtime friends Sean House and Ami Zins helped to start up back in 2004. The facility was truly amazing (I’m jealous that this kind of a place does not exist in Los Angeles) and I urge everyone to continue to support the OFC since it keeps alive the vendors and filmmakers in the Bay Area film community.