San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now

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)

“You know, Chester, someday when this is finished, people will come from all over the world to visit this spot.”
“What, here! Uh, yeah, sure, boss.”

Different cars, different buildings, same crazy freeway! Some of the buildings seen from left to right in the 50’s picture are the Mark Hopkins Hotel, the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Coit Tower, and on the right, the Call and Russ Buildings, none of which can be seen from here today.

Another view of what the Fort Point area looked like before the building og the Golden Gate Bridge. Look close at the bottom right in the current picture, and you can see the remains of the steps that fellow’s walking past that led from the house at the bottom of the old photo.

The Shorpy’s collection has some wonderful black and white, high density photos from long ago. The following are a few from San Francisco that I did some then and nows on. Here, is the corner of Franklin and California Streets. They had a weird sense of humor in the 1920’s!