Jan-Mar Redux

(Looks like the Jan-Mar to me)

One more tale from the glory days--

"Now that I think of it, a scene from Gus Van Sant's film Drugstore Cowboy was filmed at the Jan-Mar as well. They needed a view from inside a modest apartment looking out into the courtyard of a complex like the Jan-Mar with apartments going down the left and right sides of the screen as seen through the doorway. So at the end of the Jan-Mar courtyard (where there was no apartment) they built an apartment wall to be filmed from the inside looking out into the courtyard. Careful Jan-Mar cultural anthropologists who watch the film can catch the scene if they look quickly.

None of this significant cinema history could have occurred without the cooperation of the famously tolerant 'Julie the Manager'."

Jim Blashfield

Jim obviously has a better memory than I do. I watched a lot of the shooting of Drugstore Cowboy up close, but didn't recall the Jan-Mar location.

Of course, Blashfield was (and is) an active filmmaker, while I was trying to hold existence together in one restaurant or another as a dishwasher/playwright bearing a bad hangover most days.


TS