Did anyone else notice the photograph above Mayor Volker's desk?
It's definitely an American or American-style downtown, and I am 99% percent sure that it's Houston, Texas.
Does anyone have any idea why there is a photo of downtown Houston over the mayor's desk?
The use of this photo might count as a goof/anachronism.
If you look carefully at the photo above the mayor's desk, you can make out a Gulf Oil sign atop one of the old-fashioned skyscrapers. You can also spot another advertisement along the top of another skyscraper.
Here is a link to a photo of the Gulf Oil Sign atop a building in downtown Houston.
http://vasthead.com/Radio/R_Photos/1967_11_humble_view.JPG
Supposedly, the photo was taken on November 12, 1967
http://vasthead.com/Radio/news.html
Here is a link to a photo of downtown Houston in the early 1960s.
http://www.texasfreeway.com/houston/historic/photos/images/i45_downtown_i10_merge_5_1961.jpg
Supposedly, the photo was taken in May 1961.
http://www.texasfreeway.com/houston/historic/photos/houston_historic_photos.shtml
The Gulf Oil sign is clearly not on the wedding-cake style building at the center of the 1961 photo, where as it is atop that building in the 1967 photo. The other advertisement is visible along the top edge of a building in the 1961 photo.
In other words, the film takes place in 1957 and 1958*, but the photo above the mayor's desk shows Houston in the late 1960s.
*It can be dated by the election posters near the church and the soccer game playing on the radio.