San Francisco Film Locations Then & Now

Historic Chinatown. I don’t know why, but whenever I see a neat old picture of Chinatown, I want to go and take a picture of the spot today. I think it’s OCD. (Obsessive Chinatown Disorder) (Thumbnail image)

#9 Fishermen’s Grotto at Fisherman’s Wharf, one of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco. You have to get up pretty early in the morning, like these two hooligans, to find it this quiet. (Thumbnail image)

An American Werewolf in San Francisco! There were some interesting people wandering along Market Street in the 1940’s. (Thumbnail image)

Market Street at Powell in the 1970’s. Would have been great if the old streetcar second in line in the new picture had been the one at the crosswalk, but what the heck! (Thumbnail image)

We’ll explore the east and west sides of San Francisco in the following collection, but first a stop at the north side and the old Fort Point, that sits beneath the Golden Gate Bridge. (Thumbnail image)

The Queen of the East Side, the Ferry Building, runner up with Mission Dolores as the most historic building in San Francisco. The 1915 numbers have been replaced on the Ferry Building,where the were 100 years ago, honoring the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition. (Thumbnail image)

A dramatic picture of the fire that destroyed the Sutro Bathhouse building in 1966. (Thumbnail image)

Historic Pier 24 in the 1940’s. Pier 24 used to run out to the first Bay Bridge tower before it was demolished. (Thumbnail image)

A very crowded day at Ocean Beach below the Cliff House in 1947. (Thumbnail image)

This tinted 1851 daguerreotype was taken toward the Bay from where the Hills Brothers Coffee Building is now. Whose silhouette is in the photo? Was it a friend of the photographer, or a lady from the period, maybe? Was it added in later? I can’t find out. Below, is the same view today. Oh well, maybe someday people will wonder who the girl in my photo was! (Thumbnail image)