Steve McQueen races down Taylor Street after the bad guys in the black Charger in the famous chase scene from ‘Bullitt’. (Thumbnail image)
Author: SF Film Locations
Hello friends! My name is Tim Welsh. I’m the owner and operator of Welsh Income Tax Service in Hayward, California. When I was fifteen, I fell in love with San Francisco. It wasn’t a first in the family; my mother at seventeen had traveled by train from North Dakota, where I was later born, to see the Treasure Island World’s Fair, and fell in love with “The City” long before I did. You can see pictures from her trip in the November 19th, 2014 ‘Summer of 1939’ postings. It’s been a love affair that’s never broken my heart. Here, with pictures from books, movies, the internet, and personal collections, I’ve had a chance to share my affection for San Francisco with comparison and location pictures that I’ve taken. I’ve had help from family and friends, and even my dog ‘Danny’ who sniffed out the trail of Buffalo Bill at Ocean Beach on a November 15, 2014 post. My blog is for non commercial and non profit purposes only, and it’s always a lot of fun to work on. Many of the pictures from November, 2014 to November 2015 are thumbnail images. Pictures from posts after that can be enlarged by viewing the image. I hope you enjoy the posts, and please feel free to follow my blog, or make suggestions, comments or corrections if you like.
Crime in San Francisco – The Cliff House
A fun technique I enjoy doing is to overlap a film scene with the present location to blend it in with the current image. Here, the police are closing in on Eli Wallach at the Sutro Baths and Cliff House in the 1958 movie ‘The Lineup’. (Thumbnail image)
Crime in San Francisco – Chinatown
Anna May Wong, in a chase scene through Chinatown, turns left on Grant from Washington against today’s traffic in the 1949 film ‘Impact’. (Thumbnail image)
Crime in San Francisco – Filbert Street
Arthur Franz, pursued by the police, runs into the front door of his home on Filbert street in an overlap of the location from the 1952 movie ‘The Sniper’. (Thumbnail image)
Crime in San Francisco – Fort Point
The last I heard, trying to kill yourself is still a crime, which is what Kim Novak appears to be attempting by jumping into the Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1958 classic ‘Vertigo’. (Thumbnail image)
San Francisco Postcards – Chinatown
Not always film, but these postcards are fun to do comparison pictures of: Chinatown’s Grant Avenue in the 1930’s (Thumbnail image).
San Francisco Postcards – California Street
The California Street Grip climbing Nob Hill in the 1930’s. (Thumbnail image)
San Francisco Postcards – Ocean Beach
A 1904 family at the Cliff House. “Old families never die, they just wade away!”
San Francisco Postcards – City Hall
The old City Hall, destroyed in less than one minute in the 1906 Earthquake, from Fulton and Franklin Streets, and the new City Hall from Fulton and Franklin. The two buildings bordering the old City Hall were almost certainly destroyed by the fire to come that burned down most of San Francisco. The two buildings the City Hall is seen between today are The War Memorial Building on the left where the United Nations was formed, and the Opera House on the right. (Thumbnail image)
San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now 