Sep 01, 2018 — GREENWOOD, BC (BG)

A beautiful photographic collection by Greg Nesteroff of Kütne Reader, about Greenwood storefronts as depicted for the movie "Snow Falling On Cedars".

"Snow Falling on Cedars, the movie filmed partly in Greenwood in 1998, left a legacy of faux phantom signs, which helped transform the Boundary mining town into the Puget Sound fishing village of Amity Harbor. Those signs are themselves starting to fade and decay, and a few have been removed. The following photos were taken in 2000 and last weekend.

The Hyde Block (also known as Brown's Store) has three different signs. The "San Juan Islands Choice Quality Salmon" sign painted on the north side of the building was meant to look a bit faded from the get go — now it actually has faded.

The building was used in the movie as Lottie's Apparel and Amity Harbor Sewing Shop and Notions. In 2000 it was an antique shop. Today it is vacant. Twenty years after the signs were created, both are looking worse for the wear."

[ Photo: Greg Nesteroff, Kütne Reader ]

Read the complete story, with many additional photographs at Kütne Reader.