San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now

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)

Dustin Hoffman on the Bay Bridge: (Thumbnail image)

The USS Caine at the old Pier 18, now gone. (Thumbnail image)

The Alcatraz Prison recreation yard: (Thumbnail image)

“Dirty Harry” investigates the murder of a child at the bottom of Potrero Hill. (Thumbnail image)

Cary Grant’s’s crew stayed at the Fairmont Hotel in the movie. (Thumbnail image)

The bus where the massacre takes place in the opening scenes of the film leaves the Transbay Terminal Building. The bottom picture was taken the day the terminal closed in August, 2010. (Thumbnail image)

A truck gets in Virgil Tibbs line of fire across from Pier 38, near today’s AT&T Park. (Thumbnail image)

Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in front of the old PG&E Building on Market Street. (Thumbnail image)