Here’s a set of comparison pictures of Alioto’s Restaurant I’ve posted in the past that I updated to triplicate, yesterday. This collection doesn’t have a happy ending; that’s right, Alioto’s is gone. It seemed lonely and depressing walking around there yesterday; nothing felt more “San Francisco” than lunch or dinner upstairs in Alioto’s overlooking the Boat Lagoon. (Thumbnail images)
A 1950’s picture of Alioto’s and #9 Fishermen’s Grotto from the Embarcadero and Taylor Street: (foundsf.org)
Taylor Street, looking toward Pier 45 in the 1950s or early 1960s: I’ve lost the source of the vintage picture from the set I posted in August of 2015
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Alioto’s in a cartoon from Miroslav Sasek’s 1962 book ‘This is San Francisco’:
A 1940 picture of the Boat Lagoon from the Charles Cushman Collection, looking east. Well, at least you can see Boudin’s from here now.
Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) and a call girl he’s protecting from one of her “clients” who’s trying to kill her, walk past the Boat Lagoon in a ‘The Streets of San Francisco’ episode titled ‘The First Day of Forever’:
San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now 