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The old carousel at the Children’s Playground in Golden Gate Park in the 1800’s. City: (Thumbnail image)

Fred Lyon is a photographer who took some wonderful black and white pictures of San Francisco in the 1940’s and 1950’s. here, two children are sliding down upper Kearny Street at Fresno Alley toward Broadway in the 1940’s. (Thumbnail image)

No, it’s not a scene from Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’, just a picture at Union Square in the 1950’s. They’ve cleared the pigeons out of here now! (Thumbnail image)

Valentina Cortese with William Lundigan at Union and Montgomery Streets in the 1951 movie ‘The House on Telegraph Hill’. That’s the old Speedy’s Market the ladies are entering in the movie scene, that closed in 2008 after 90 years on this corner. (Thumbnail image)

Another Fred Lyon picture at Mason Street on a windy day in the 1950’s. (Thumbnail image)

Ah, Golden Gate Park in the 1800’s with the fairer sex! Although, they appear to be three of the homeliest ladies in San Francisco from that period! (Thumbnail image)

Barbara Bel Geddes, and Irene Dunne in the 1948 film ‘I Remember Mama’. This scene was filmed on Kearny Street looking down from above Vallejo. Just to the right of Irene Dunne looks to me to be the crown of the Sentinel Building, which was painted white in 1948. You can see the Sentinel Building, now green, in the modern shot a little way down from the movie spot at Vallejo.

We begin our climb at Clay and Taylor Streets on Nob Hill with Steve McQueen in the 1968 film ‘Bullitt’.

Here, Bullitt, seen in his rear view mirror, chases the bad guys down Larkin Street on Russian Hill in the famous chase scene. (Thumbnail image)

Mason Street between California and Pine Streets on Nob Hill. This is one of the steepest streets in San Francisco. (Thumbnail image)