Restring some of the old clotheslines, put out some barrels and baskets and, you're pretty much done, as Marissa Breton shows us on Margaret Street, which Ben Affleck will be using as a set for "Live by Night."
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Dear Ben Affleck,
By anon
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 2:29pm
Please diversify your portfolio. Boston has more interesting things in its past, present, and future than organized crime. It's getting tedious.
Thanks Bennifer
By Foghorn Leghorn
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 3:01pm
This picture is interesting - the clothesline. How do you go about asking a neighbor across the street to share a clothesline...how do they string it....who has first dibs on using it....did they share it at the same time? A picture tells 1,000 words.
speaking of clotheslines ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 6:17pm
Where are the sheets? So many rooms to let and no sheets?
Something else is missing
By Eye Talian
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 7:27pm
There should be at least a dozen mens-undershirts-formerly-known-as-'wifebeaters.'
World needs plenty of
By anon!
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 3:22pm
World needs plenty of bartenders!
I tried that, and you hated
By Christie-Baker 2016
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 3:48pm
I tried that, and you hated Gigli. So get excited for The Town 2: Space Saver Wars.
-Ben
Crime movies are usually the best movies...
By Tgaup
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 4:13pm
Go on IMDB.com, look up the top 250 movies of all time, then look at the top 20. I'd say about 17-18 of those are Crime movies.....cough cough The Godfather..
Gone Baby Gone wasn't about organized crime, was it?
By aldos
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 4:50pm
Crime, yes, but not exactly of the organized variety. It seems like Affleck pulls most of his source material from novels, so you may want to direct your criticism at Dennis Lehane, Chuck Hogan, and the like.
Where do they come up with
By Gino
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 7:08pm
Where do they come up with these names for storefronts.
Hideously Inaccurate
By Elmer
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 4:28pm
In all of the old Boston photos featured on Universal Hub, solar clothes dryers are deployed on the roofs of buildings. You don't see them strung them between two different properties above a public street.
How could a laundress possibly operate this dryer? It's not even a pulley clothesline! She'd have to be twenty feet tall to hang clothes in the center.
Obviously
By BostonDog
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 5:17pm
[img]http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/img/2008/ep36/ma...
Sure they did
By Anon
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 5:25pm
I've seen lots of photos of clotheslines strung between buildings in Boston. Google it.
Here's one as recent as 1975 in the North End:
(They would have had pulleys, but I can't tell if the ones for the film set have them or not.)
Clothesline poles
By anon
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 9:03pm
When I grew up in Boston neighborhoods in the 60s some people had poles resembling telephone poles with pulleys on them in their yards, for the express purpose of running a clothesline to them from a porch or window.
That was us
By billski
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 7:06am
Pulleys were great. You could put them up anywhere. Trees, barns, etc. We had clotheslines well into the 70's. The fresh air smell of clothes cannot be beat. It saved energy and there was no pollution and was free. Now we need everything to be convenient. The price we pay!
Of course
By cybah
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 7:58pm
Since I'm a uhub regular.. I'm looking at this picture and thinking it's not a movie (and present day), and I think...
OMG a clothes line? It's hideous. where is the neighborhood association? what do they think? Why haven't we had public meetings about it? What about those rooming houses? Where's the parking? Is that zoned properly? Can I get the minutes of the BRA meeting that approved that online?
And most of all.. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
/sarcasm
(truthfully, I wish most places WOULD allow for clothes lines, it's so much more eco friendly, your clothes don't get ruined, and smell better!)
I wonder how many people not
By anon
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 5:57am
I wonder how many people not realizing this is a setup for a movie have called to complain about it.
Great, possibly apocryphal, story RE Brinks Job location shoot
By Neil
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 9:33pm
I used to work on the movies here and there was a great story RE the Brinks Job shoot.
Story goes that there was only one window air conditioner in the alley of the shoot. Location manager paid the owner 50 bucks to remove it.
Next day there were AC'c and cardboard boxes looking like AC's in every other window in the alley. Production had to pay em all!
And hey Elmer! It's willing suspension of disbelief! It's adorable!
By Elmer
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 11:55pm
Now wait a minute
By billski
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 7:11am
I thought you didn't mix dark and light clothing in a single wash. I'll bet the movie director/producer never did a load of laundry.
The vinyl/aluminum
By anon
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:26pm
The vinyl/aluminum replacement windows, square galvanized sign posts, neon crosswalk signs, cable/DSL lines/conduit, and other misc. modern bits all over the place just scream Olde Tymey.
At least they didn't film this in Vancouver or some other generic Canadian city with 'Boston' accents straight out of Boise.
Location! Location! Location!
By Div2Supt
Sat, 11/21/2015 - 12:11am
Thank goodness the story is set in the North End. If it had been in the West End, the CGI budget alone would have kept this project stuck in development hell.
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