It's hard to believe that David Lynch was in a six-year struggle to make Eraserhead on a piffling American Film Institute grant. It's harder still to believe that its closeted body horror and mind ...
lived at 13th and Wood streets during the 1960s — a quarter mile away from where Love City now stands. His 1977 breakout film Eraserhead, made right after he left Philly, was filmed in California.