NBC Film Shoot in North Beach for “Trauma”

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"Other than car commercials and the long-since-gone Nash Bridges, not too many TV shows do any filming in San Francisco. So even though the show is terrible, NBC’s first responder drama “Trauma” is now our native son TV show (filmed entirely on location in SF) and will be filming a few scenes in North Beach on Thursday February 25, 2010 from 11am to Midnight.

There probably won’t be any massive explosions or helicopter rescues as has been done in the past Trauma shoots, but still it’s sometimes fun to watch a show being filmed right in your own city.

“Trauma” Filming Details – 2/25/10
Locations: Columbus at Broadway, Vallejo at Powell
Time: 11am to Midnight, with filming in front of City Lights Bookstore from 10pm to Midnight

There will obviously be lots of emergency vehicles used as props, so don’t freak out and call 911. Also, we suggest you be respective to the crews who might need to herd spectators (that means YOU) to make sure they don’t interfere with the shot."

Good thing we don't have to worry about mud slides here.

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I found some interesting info on the multiple quarries that were located on Telegraph Hill. These companies are responsible for the bare rock faces you see on almost all sides of the hill. Here is an interesting essay on saving the hill from these stone companies.

  • Gray (Grey) Brothers Stone Quarry, located on Telegraph Hill circa 1910, View shows quarry, on the east side of Telegraph Hill above Sansome, with a few frame dwellings perched on the top. This firm was responsible for numerous houses sliding down the hill.

  • Telegraph Hill Quarry (Sandstone); Gray Brothers, Circa 1906, 1122 Haywards Building, owners. At the corner of Green and Sansome streets. The rock is a highly metamorphosed blue sandstone, and stands with a nearly perpendicular face about 180 feet high. The quarry has been idle for about a year, but the crushing plant is being operated with stone brought in carts from their smaller quarry, of similar rock, at the corner of Chestnut and Montgomery streets. The face of this smaller quarry is nearly 100 feet high.

    "For three quarters of a mile around the foot of Telegraph Hill rock has been quarried for many years, first to fill in the bay, and at present for seawall and other concrete construction about San Francisco."

  • George P. Wetmore Quarry. Circa 1906, This large quarry is at the corner of Lombard and Montgomery streets. The office is at this quarry. C. A. Wetmore is superintendent. They quarry a blue and gray metamorphosed sandstone, and some altered slaty rock occurs in the slips. The face is about 100 feet high. No blasting is done. The rock is barred down, and large slips often cover the quarry floor with much broken rock. This is sledged and loaded into small skips, which are taken to the crusher by means of an aerial tramway. Rubble, macadam, and concrete rock are produced. A No. 5 Gates crusher averages about 150 yards a day.

    "This firm also operates a small crushing plant at Tenth and Division streets, by using the waste rock from the stone yards of the Colusa Sandstone Company and the McGilvray Sandstone Company."

  • Vulcan Quarry (Sandstone), at the base of Telegraph Hill, on Francisco street, between Kearny and Dupont (now Grant St.), in the rear of the Vulcan Iron Works. George P. Wetmore & Co. quarry the rock and haul it in carts to their crushing plant on Lombard street, near Sansome. The stone is the typical blue rock, a metamorphosed sandstone, and is extensively fractured by numerous slips. It is used for rubble, macadam, and concrete purposes.