The kidnapping of the Mayor of San Francisco by boat was in the old China Basin, the future McCovey Cove. (Thumbnail image)
More Film Clip Links – ‘The Lady From Shanghai (1948) The ending in the Playland Funhouse
The Fun House, called the “Crazy House” in the famouse Hall of Mirrors closing scene, and where the Fun House stood. (Thumbnail image)
More Film Clip Links – ‘San Francisco’ (1936) The Earthquake scene
“Blackie” Norton, (Clark Gable) watches Downtown San Francisco burn from Nob Hill. (Thumbnail image)
More Film Clip Links – ‘After the Thin Man’ (1936)
Asta in Nick and Nora’s back yard; actually Pioneer Park behind Coit Tower. (Thumbnail image)
On The Western Edge – The Cliff House (Thumbnail image
A rare image of families going into the entrance of the old gingerbread Cliff House for a day at the beach, and families entering today’s Cliff House. The link below will allow you to see all of the posts for this series of pictures on the western edge of San Francisco.
On the Western Edge – The Cliff House fire (Thumbnail image)
For visitors to this site who are not familiar with San Francisco history; this was the fate of the gingerbread Cliff House in 1907. The link below will allow you to see all of the posts for this series of pictures on the western edge of San Francisco.
On the Western Edge – An over view
Exploring the west coast of San Francisco from the Cliff house, seen on the left in an aerial photo from the 1920’s, down to Fleishhacker’s Pool in a photograph from the same period (Maybe, the same day). The Pool House, destroyed by a fire in 2013, was still under construction. (Thumbnail image) The link below will allow you to see all of the posts for this series of pictures on the western edge of San Francisco.
On the Western Edge – The Sutro Bathhouse (Thumbnail image)
The old Sutro Bathhouse ruins north of the Cliff House: The tic-tac-toe looking structure in the modern picture was where the pump house, that drew water from the ocean into the pool, was. The link below will allow you to see all of the posts for this series of pictures on the western edge of San Francisco.
On the Western Edge – The view from Sutro Heights
One of the premier attractions on the ocean side is still the Cliff House, seen here from Sutro’s Mansion when it was the gingerbread Cliff House which was later destroyed by fire in 1907. (Thumbnail image) The link below will allow you to see all of the posts for this series of pictures on the western edge of San Francisco.
On the Western Edge – The Murphy Windmill and the streetcar bridge (Thumbnail image)
A then and now threesome; the top picture was taken in 1900 at the old streetcar bridge on the western edge of Golden Gate Park, two years before the Murphy Windmill was built. In the middle picture from the early 1940’s, streetcars were still crossing here. The bottom photo I took in August of 2015. The windmill that had become dilapidated by the 1970’s, has been restored, and the sails were set in motion again on this day.The embankment where the bridge crossed over, what is now Martin Luther King drive, can still be seen. The link below will allow you to see all of the posts for this series of pictures on the western edge of San Francisco.
San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now 