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Tag Archives: 891 Post
891 Post: Tub Shot, B&W
January is almost gone. Noir City is done. And The Voice of Noir has left the building. Yeah, the windows of the Sam Spade apartment in 891 Post will be dark again as you gumshoe past in the night, after … Continue reading
Frisco Beat: Falcon, Falcon, Who’s Got a or the Falcon?
Getting slightly busy with the Noir City X action, dropping into the old haunt of Sam Spade’s apartment for pre-opening night drinks with Bill “The Voice of Noir” Arney, who is camping out in his former digs during the festival … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco
Tagged 891 Post, Bill Arney, Drew Bourn, Noir City, The House on Telegraph Hill, Using San Francisco History
891 Post: A Noir Advertisement
I got a Xmas card from Bill Arney — a.k.a. The Voice of Noir — which asked if I had seen the trailer for the tenth anniversary of the Noir City film festival. Turns out it was shot in Sam Spade’s … Continue reading
Hammett: More Rhea and Wilmer
Bill Arney has been busy knocking out a new series of Cheese Theatre episodes, but after holding down the Sam Spade apartment in 891 Post Street for years he keeps his hand in on Hammett stuff — and just popped these notes in as … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit
Tagged 891 Post, Bill Arney, Cheese Theatre, Mike Humbert, Rhea Gutman, Wilmer Cook
891 Post: Tub Shot 2
The grainy image above dates from the last days when Bill Arney held down the fort in the Sam Spade apartment in 891 Post Street, quick, rough documentation before the rooms went on into a then unknown future. Now we know … Continue reading
891 Post: Tub Shot
Although he left the Sam Spade apartment in 891 Post Street a couple of years ago — after a long and distinguished tenure — Bill Arney returned earlier this year for a guest-starring role, letting a tour group in to … Continue reading
Hammett: More 891
And how about a quick Guest Blog from none other than Bill Arney, host of Cheese Theatre, but best known around Hammett circles as the longtime resident of the Hammett and Sam Spade apartment in 891 Post Street? Bill finally … Continue reading
Hammett: More on “Death”
Prompted by Terry Zobeck’s post on “Death and Company,” I pulled out my Dell Mapback edition of The Return of the Continental Op and checked through all his corrections. Took a little bit of work, since Terry’s page and line numbers refer to … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News, Tour
Tagged "Death and Company", "Mike Alec or Rufus", "The Creeping Siamese", "The Farewell Murder", "The Thin Man", "Women Politics and Murder", 408 Turk, 620 Eddy, 891 Post, 895 Post, Bill Arney, Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Dell Mapbacks, Frederic Dannay, Hammett Tour Book, Pru Whitfield, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, The Glass Key, The Return of the Continental Op
Sinister Cinema: Cheese Theatre
In only ten more days anyone lucky enough to attend Noir City — playing in the Castro Theatre from January 21-30 — will once again thrill to the dulcet tones of Bill Arney, the Voice of Noir, as he announces the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco
Tagged 891 Post, Bill Arney, Castro Theatre, Cheese Theatre, Dwight Frye, Eddie Muller, Noir City
News: November 2009
TOUR SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 In addition to various tours by appointment this month, Don is offering a Hammett walk open to anyone interested — Sunday November 15 at noon, ten bucks, four hours, the usual, just like it says on … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco, News, Tour
Tagged 891 Post, Bill Arney, Clan Breiding, Craig Clevenger, Donnie Fritz, Eddie Muller, Frank Synopsis, Noir City, Robert Mailer Anderson, Specious Species
