Shoe Shine anyone?

At 2:16 PM on Friday, September 01, 2006

From the blog Daddy-O comes this new image of "Clinton Shoe Repair," just one of the many storefronts redressed for the 'Hairspray' shoot.





"Dundas Street West, at least around our neighbourhood, has become truly interesting in the last week. The store fronts, from our block to the end of Roncesvalles, have been quietly transformed into shops from the early 1960s in preparation for the movie Hairspray. The movie stars, among others, John Travolta, Jim Broadbent and Christopher Walken. As for the set decoration, it's been very cool. While all the stores are still open—with sidewalk signs and banners proclaiming this—the facades have been changed to reflect: a cocktail lounge, a beauty parlor, a bakery (complete with racks of bread and doughnuts), a record shop, a hardware store, a pharmacy and more. When I got home today they were replacing all the modern Esso signs with older ones. And although I haven't seen it yet, I've been told that one of the billboards has been changed to an old 1962 Phillips ad. They've even replaced the parking meters which were just taken down to make way for those new, solar-powered ticket dispensers. Shooting begins next week and is scheduled to last a week."

Love,
Hairhopper

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