The new pornographers

By Susan Gerhard

SF360.org introduces a weekly log: blogs, print, webmags, and a few other items of interest…

Who says film production in San Francisco is on the wane? The news of the week is that the Mission’s armory, described by the SF Chronicle’s Steve Rubenstein as a Moorish-style brick building with boarded up windows and graffitied walls, is the new hub of pornographic filmmaking in the City, after its purchase for $14.5 by Kink.com.

“The armory, built in 1912, served as a military induction and training center during the two world wars,” writes Rubenstein. “It’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places but has been empty since 1970. In recent years, plans to build apartments, offices and an Internet switching facility never got off the ground. At present, kids on skateboards practice their moves on its front steps, and homeless people sleep in its doorways

01.17.2007