In Fiction
The tunnel is featured in the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry and the Humphrey Bogart film Dark Passage. The honking of horns in the tunnel, often done deliberately for the sake of hearing the echoes, was the inspiration for harmonicist Bruce "Creeper" Kurnow's composition Honk If You Love Harmonica.
In the film Bicentennial Man, a futuristic view of a relocated U.S. 101 Highway is used which bypasses the historic Waldo Grade.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)