References in Popular Culture
In the 1997 theatrical film Home Alone 3, a bag of "the famous San Francisco sourdough bread" is central to the plot. Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes) buys a loaf of the bread, while a quartet of terrorists uses the same type of French-flag design bag to smuggle a stolen computer chip contained in a a radio-controlled car. The two bags get mixed up at airport security, and the terrorists are thwarted in retrieving the car because a large number of people in the airport terminal have bags from the bakery.
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A rack of bread in the flagship bakery in Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
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