San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now

  A Pan Am China Clipper flies over Fisherman’s Wharf in the 1930’s on its way to the Orient. The pier with the ship docked below the airplane’s tail is today’s Pier 39 tourist attraction. Pier 41, the large pier to the right, has been demolished, and is now a docking area for ferryboats. (Thumbnail image)

Swabs and WACs at the Wharf. (Thumbnail image)

The quaint little fisherman picture for # 9 Fishermen’s Grotto, although, the lagoon and view of the Golden Gate Bridge are on the other side of the restaurant. I’m also not making repeated typos; Fisherman’s Wharf is spelled with an ‘a’ and #9 Fishermen’s Grotto with an ‘e’. Not sure about the middle picture either, she doesn’t look tattered and lost to me. (Thumbnail image)

Pretty Lee Remick crosses at Jefferson and Taylor Streets to a taxi that will take her to Candlestick Park to deliver ransom money in the 1962 film ‘Experiment in Terror’. (Thumbnail image)

Alioto’s and #9 Fishermen’s Grotto: (Thumbnail image)

Pier 45, back when China was our friend. Ships this size don’t dock at Pier 45 anymore. (Thumbnail image)

“What do you do with a drunken sailor, ear-lie in the morn’?” The Wharf  street entertainment has changed considerably over the years. (Thumbnail image)

A well-to-do lady at #9 Fishermen’s Wharf Grotto. She won’t mind seeing the crabs get thrown into the boiling cauldron anymore that she minds about all the animals that gave their all for that coat! (Thumbnail image)

The Wharf in the 1970’s. The old gas station that had been there since the 1930’swas still there, although, no longer resembling a ship. (Thumbnail image)

Ann Sheridan and Dennis O’Keefe walk past Pier 45 in the 1950 film ‘Woman on the Run’. I always did want to be in a Film Noir movie! (Thumbnail image)