On Friday my good friend Dave (a production director) and I spent the afternoon in San Francisco shooting video of sites in the city used as movie locations. We started on Nob Hill and worked our way to Russian Hill, North Beach and Pacific Heights. We shot locations featured in Vertigo, Play it Again, Sam and Days of Wine and Roses. We have plans to go out again next week and shoot locations downtown and South of Market that were used in these and other films. Once we're done shooting, have done some editing and added voice-over, I'll post the video here. In the meantime, here are a couple of snapshots of 900 Lombard Street. This location was used in Vertigo as the apartment where Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) lived. Amazingly, the building is much the same as it was when the film was made 50+ years ago. The larger photo shows the entrance to his apartment. The smaller one is of a garden behind the building. I found it interesting that the apartment actually seems to have a layout similar to that depicted in the film - it does have a full view of Coit Tower. Lombard Street is famous for being "the crookedest street in the world," but the 900 block is quite straight - it's a few blocks down from the section known for its curves...
