Although their robes say "St. Mark's Baths," Caffe Cino playwright Robert Patrick recalls "'Vapors' was not filmed in the St. Mark's Baths. William M. Hoffman says the upstairs scenes were shot in the building on Prince Street where both Billy and Andy lived, and Joel Thurm, who played the clerk, says, 'My stuff was done in a candy store on either 8th or 6th Avenue... the counter of the candy store was the 'reception' desk.'