“I promise you, we will catch the Punk that did this.”………………..I remember those words as if they were yesterday. My Dad and I religiously watched all the 70′s and 80′s cop shows from Ironside to Cannon, from Banacheck to McLeod and that one with Dick Van Dyke stars as a brilliant physician with an eye for a mystery, who regularly helps his slightly more dim-witted son to crack murder cases…………can’t remember the name of that one.
And of course Michael Douglas and the chap with the huge mole on the side of his nose in The Streets of Francisco. Ah, the good old days Watching them pull up and be able to park a car the size of the Holiday in front of anywhere they went in San Francisco still brings back great memories.
It’s possibly my new favourite city – stunning-looking, wonderful standard of living and the location of so many of my favourite Hitchcock movies.
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