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Not sure if common knowledge but Coppola wrote a lot of the Godfather in San Francisco's Cafe Trieste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffe_Trieste#:~:text=Franc
by eweise 2y ago
Not sure if common knowledge but Coppola wrote a lot of the Godfather in San Francisco's Cafe Trieste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffe_Trieste#:~:text=Francis%20Ford%20Coppola%20wrote%20much,sitting%20in%20the%20Caff%C3%A8%20Trieste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffe_Trieste#:~:text=Francis%....
- mikeodds 2y agoThat’s nice colour. I’d love to find somewhere that acts as the “neighbourhoods lounge” in SF now.
- brcmthrowaway 2y agoFun fact, but I doubt anyone on HN still lives in San Francisco.
- marnett 2y agoWhy? There are plenty…
- barrenko 2y agoI'll even recommend visiting the town of Trieste itself!
- haunter 2y agoIt’s a city
- barrenko 2y ago!
- alberto_ol 2y agoPlease, don't come. There are already too many tourists. The city center has become almost unlivable in the Summer.
- jimbokun 2y agoThe curse of living in the most desirable country on Earth to visit!
- toyg 2y agoThe alternative would have probably been worse, considering that Trieste has been slowly dying since WWI, more or less. Like Venezia (and arguably, various other parts of Italy), it was built to do something that is now largely unnecessary, so it will likely survive only as a curiosity.
- barrenko 2y agoI come occasionally for pizza and ice cream, sorry.
- ggambetta 2y agoI learned this fact because I had a first date with a girl who suggested that place, knowing I'm a writer. Five years later I chose that same spot to propose :)
- alberto_ol 2y agoAnd, by coincidence,in The Godfather Part II he shot some scenes in the actual city of Trieste. The Ellis Island building is a an old fish market in Trieste.