Past portals
Advocate, The, April 26, 2005 by Daniel Saint James
I loved your photo spread titled "San Francisco: Chasing Visions of Vertigo" [March/April]. Vertigo has certainly become a gay cult classic and deservedly so, since it features, so prominently and beautifully, one of the gay community's most magnificent and beloved cities. Although the Palace of Fine Arts is featured in the movie, I hope your readers are clear that that fine monument is not the monument that was mentioned in the movie as the Portals of the Past, which is located in Golden Gate Park and still stands today as a reminder of the great quake and fire of 1906.
It was once the entrance to a fine San Francisco mansion, and it is all that was left of the gracious home after the quake and fire. I love your publication. Keep up the good work. DANIEL SAINT JAMES, Los Angeles
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