San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now

That’s my 17 year old mom photo left of her cousin Frances at the old Fleishhacker’s Pool in 1939. The top right photo is the army practicing in the pool shortly after Pearl Harbor. Today the pool is buried under the San Francisco Zoo parking lot.

  The army practices for defense at the Presidio during World War ll. And, no, I was taking a picture of the bridge. (I think)

  This picture from the San Francisco Chronicle July 19th, 2015 issue is at the old Funhouse of Playland-at-the-Beach. It must have been taken very close to the time Playland closed in September, 1972.  (Thumbnail image)

  Looking down Montgomery Street from Telegraph Hill.  (Thumbnail image)

  Ten to one the name of that little tyke with the cap over his ears in front of the Ferry Building was “Scooter” or “Biff”.  (Thumbnail image)

  Those must have been really small kids at the Conservatory in Golden Gate Park! Or else, they were Victorian voodoo dolls!  (Thumbnail image)

This one is a personal then and now of me with my nieces taken in June of 1987. That was the 50th Anniversary candle they painted on the cement Island of the Bay Bridge the previous November, and hadn’t, entirely removed yet. Pier 14, in the news a lot these days, now juts out behind where we were

The top image is from the opening scene of the movie with the Bay Bridge and San Francisco Skyline. (Thumbnail image)

Harold being recruited for an army career up on Sutro Heights as crippled, blind, and shell shocked soldiers stumble past them. (Thumbnail image)