Spots Unknown » Not San Francisco http://spotsunknown.com Under the skin of San Francisco Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:52:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Janet Jackson Video Shot in Cartoon MUNI Station? http://spotsunknown.com/80s-janet-jackson-video-shot-in-cartoon-muni-station/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=80s-janet-jackson-video-shot-in-cartoon-muni-station http://spotsunknown.com/80s-janet-jackson-video-shot-in-cartoon-muni-station/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:20:25 +0000 Jeff Diehl http://spotsunknown.com/?p=1610

Janet Jackson Video on MUNI in San Francisco?

Jane at Uptown Almanac tries hard to make a San Francisco connection to this undeniably funky, adorable video. Alas, I cannot concur.

The stop they get off at is "Venice," and there are palm trees and a Hollywood sign...

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I spent Christmas this year with my fiance's family in Southampton, PA. Her dad pulled out a DVD of some footage he took on one of the earliest VHS vidcams (a Hitachi) that chronicled a trip around Japan in 1983 when they lived there. This clip is from the small neighborhood in Tokyo - Hatsudai - where they were living.

The 27-year-old footage of snowman-building kids, lanterns, tight quarters, and a thick collection of snow, really evoke the feeling of Winter and Christmas for me. I also love the ambient sound.

Below is the same street today with images grabbed off Google Streetview:

(Thanks, Bob!)

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