The Weather for the Long and Short Haul is Cloudy with a Chance of Laundry

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The Fan at the Laundromat, 2013, processed 2014

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The Laundromat, 2013, processed 2014

We are refreshed. I redid the website to something a little more suitable temperamentally. The website, I coded. The blog has a new look as well but this template I purchased because I wanted plain good WordPress functionality without too much effort.

We are refreshed, but refreshed in the kind of way you’re refreshed after a long, hard drive, you’re resting in a motel after a bath, you haven’t eaten anything except for a bag of chips, you really need to do the laundry, and the next day is focused less on a tantalizing horizon than on hoping your car will hang in there and get you to the next pit stop.

The Kubrick analyses, except for some short posts without too many images, have all been migrated over to the main website. I’ve some touching up to do and some more images and thoughts to add but will update on that later.

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The Road to Jericho and Oyster Bay – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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495 Exit – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

In Eyes Wide Shut, Bill gets his costume then sets out for the address given him by the pianist. We view the exit for 495.

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The next shot is in Oyster Bay. This was a tough one to find. We have just the briefest glimpse of a 106 Route sign. Then an illegible sign for a store that reads Wagner, and beyond that a sign for a Getty gas station which for all intents and purposes can’t be seen. But in the distance is a brightly lit side of a building with two gables. My thoughts? The only place on a road like this that will be that large and have two gables is likely to be a funeral home. And that’s how I located the Oyster Bay funeral home, which is the one seen in the film. The Wagner store and the Getty gas station have since been trashed and replaced.

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Oyster Bay – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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The Sonata Cafe – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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Madame Jojo’s – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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Madame Jojo’s – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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Madame Jojo’s – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

The interior of Madame Jojo’s, in London, UK, was the set of the Sonata Cafe in Eyes Wide Shut.

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The Back Fence – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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The Back Fence – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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Looking the Other Direction from the Back Fence (2) – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

Another Greenwich anchor Kubrick gives us is a street corner that can be identified by the club The Back Fence. This live shot is between the scene in which Bill has his altercation with the frat boys, and the scene in which he meets Domino.

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Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – The Pink Pussycat – Google Maps Redux Art

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The Pink Pussycat – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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Next to the Pink Pussycat – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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Down the Road from the Pink Pussycat – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

After the Greenwich anchor of 3rd and Sullivan in “Eyes Wide Shut”, Kubrick has Bill walking through a set version of the village. He follows this with a green screen of Bill walking past The Pink Pussycat, which was an easy place to find. However, there is something interesting going on as far as a difference between the street we see in the film and what we see on Google maps.

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3rd and Sullivan, New York – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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3rd Street and Sullivan – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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3rd Street and Sullivan (2) – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

In Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick gives us a Greenwich Village view as an anchor as Bill leaves Marion Nathanson’s apartment and begins his odyssey, but the little that’s shown in the view gives no identity landmarks and we can’t read the streetsign (or I couldn’t) though we vaguely see it through the dark. I could tell, however, there were two Ls in the sign. Having earlier discovered that another Greenwich anchor that Kubrick gives us was The Back Fence, I looked for neighboring streets with 2 Ls and reasoned Sullivan might be the one. I then easily found this corner where we had the white brick beside a red brick building on the corner and a dark brick building on the opposite corner.

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Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Victor’s Mansion – Google Maps Redux Art

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Victor’s Ball – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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The Entrance to Victor’s Supposed Mansion – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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237 Madison, Behind Victor’s Supposed Mansion – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

Kubrick crossfades from Bill and Alice exiting the San Remo, in Eyes Wide Shut, to a 3/4 view of the building that will serve as Victor’s mansion. The location is the Polish Consulate General, in the Joseph Raphael de Lama house, at the corners of East 37th Street and Madison Avenue in New York. Behind it, we see a part of 237 Madison Ave. which is Morgan’s Hotel. 233 is the home of the Polish Consulate General.

The number 237 will have meaning for fans of Kubrick’s The Shining.

Below is a still from the film of Victor’s.

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Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – San Remo – Google Maps Redux Art

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San Remo – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

Bill and Alice live at the San Remo building at 145/146 Central Park West, though the exterior of the building doesn’t fit at all with the layout of the apartment but who cares. We’re twice given this anchor, between the scenes of Alice and Bill in the dressing room at film’s beginning, and later when Bill returns home from his second trip to Somerton.

The below image above is a side view of the building, from 74th Street.

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A Back Fence – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

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San Remo Entrance – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

Above is the front of the San Remo.

The first shot of the building in the film, Kubrick cutting to Bill at the dressing room window, Bill is searching for something but also looking out the window. What he’s looking at, if anything, or out what side of the building we don’t know.

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The Benches – Revisiting “Eyes Wide Shut” – Google Maps Redux

In the shot of the building a man is seated on the far left of these benches across the street in front of the park.

Below are a couple of bonus shots, just because I like them. One is a corner view of the building neighboring the San Remo, between it and the Dakota, and the other shows a view of the benches before that building and a worker looking up at it. A much better bench shot than the above, but not the right building.

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Dick Travels up the Mountain – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art

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The Snow Cat to the Rescue – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art

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Snow Covered Trees – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art

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The Overlook/Timberline from the Road – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art

In the 4 P.M. section of The Shining, Dick travels in the Snow Cat to the lodge. One shot has him on a fairly flat stretch hemmed with trees. I looked around for something corresponding to this and I don’t know if I might have lucked upon that exact stretch on the west leg of the Timberline Highway, which in the winter joins with the ski trails as part of that veritable maze before the Timberline, then links up with the Timberline Highway to enter from the east. I’d thought possibly that this scene was filmed at the studio as it was so eerily pristine, but seeing the Google Maps images, and knowing they had filming crew up here, it could have been a real location shot.

Wonderfully, Google Maps also provides an image that is very close to what Dick sees of the lodge as he approaches it from the road.

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The Timberline/Overlook Blanketed in Snow – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art

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Best Way to the Lodge – Revisiting “The Shining” – Google Maps Redux Art

In the 8 A.M. section of “The Shining” we get a brief look of a view of the studio lodge from the far west entrance, which was unobserved on Closing Day. Though the studio set is different from the real Timberline (which is viewed in aerials and from down the mountain), it’s interesting to compare the live Timberline/Overlook snowed in version with the studio Overlook.

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