"Steve McQueen didn’t have many friends in Hollywood. According to the actor’s biographer, Marc Eliot, he’d burned just about every bridge with every director and co-star with whom he’d ever worked. McQueen seems to have been "
Steve McQueen’s Bullitt
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Ok, If we’re talking about car culture and San Francisco, there’s one thing that’s impossible to ignore. Bullitt: Steve McQueen’s famous opus that features that Fastback Mustang so beautifully, poetically and iconically.
Thing is, though we haven’t actually spotted a Bullitt recreation ‘Stang since we arrived yesterday: we’ve seen a ton of Mustangs- and this brown, vinyl roofed confection is the closest thing to the original we’ve come across on our bike wanders around the city.
Polk Street, one of the locations of the original movie
It’s worth reminding ourselves, in a city like San Francisco that everything remains the same, even if the superstructure changes so much. It’s the kind of city that resonates with a million images and ideas. And we’ve captured a few pics that we thought you might enjoy. Go to Street Spots for more.
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