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Then and Now filming locations in 1978 San Francisco, on Alcatraz Island, from the movie 'Escape From Alcatraz'.
- 8 min
- 20.4K
- Reshoots
- The Golden Gate Bridge Film Locations
- Locations in and Around The Palace of Fine Arts
- Alcatraz Locations
- Scenes Filmed on The Streetcars
- Lombard Street Locations
- Chinatown Locations
- Telegraph Hill and Financial District Locations
- The Locations of The Painted Ladies and The Surrounding Area
- Castro Locations
The symbol of the city is undoubtedly the (1) Golden Gate Bridge, a bridge suspended over the bay of the same name and about 1.8 miles long, which provides a seamless solution to traffic moving from Southern to Northern California, and vice versa. Of course, given its significance, grandeur, and aesthetics, it has been symbolically portrayed in num...
The (2) Palace of Fine Arts, is another important symbol of the Californian city to which the citizens are really very attached. In his essay “An Optimist in America” written in the 1960s, Italo Calvino describes the Palace of Fine Arts as: This imposing building, located in theMarina District and now housing art exhibitions, appears with its neocl...
The former prison on the island of (5) Alcatraz, has seen the world’s most inspiring prison stories, later filmed on the silver screen. Among the many films in which Alcatraz has played a starring role are “Murder in the First” (1995), in which brutal and bewildering facts that really happened inside the prisons are recounted; “The Rock” (1996), in...
Public transportation in San Francisco is definitely European-style. Not only do citizens move around using the streetcars, like in many of the cities on the old continent, but some of the cars on the tracks have been directly purchased from or donated by municipalities overseas: it is, for example, easy to board an original “Ventotto,” an Italian ...
(7) Lombard Street, is a very famous street in the city because of its steep downhill sharp bends, on Russian Hill, between Hyde Street and Leavenworth Street. In the 1979 Disney film, Herbie drives downhill on that stretch of road at high speed, despite the speed limit being only 5 mph. The winding roadway, consisting of eight steep switchbacks, r...
San Francisco’s Chinatown is the largest Chinese neighborhood inside a U.S. metropolitan area. The conventional gateway, the (9) Dragon’s Gate, was immortalized in the 1986 cult movie “Big Trouble in Little China,” when Mr. Egg Shen’s (Victor Wong) small tour bus passes under the emerald-colored arch and squeezes into the heart of the neighborhood....
The hilly Telegraph Hillneighborhood is primarily a residential area, much quieter than the neighboring North Beach, distinguished by the presence of lively clubs and vibrant nightlife. In fact, three famous apartments that have appeared in some famous movie sequences can be found on its streets. In the aforementioned “Play it again Sam” (1972), (1...
Not far from the San Francisco City Hall, between Steiner Street and Hayes Street, runs the row of townhouses nicknamed (20) The Painted Ladies, because of the colorful colors with which they are painted. These Victorian and Edwardian-style houses, set on the edge of Alamo Square Park, have appeared in numerous movies and television series: from th...
The charismatic and fragile protagonist of the film directed by Gus Van Sant, in 1972 chooses to move to the Castro districtwith his partner Scott Smith (James Franco), whom he met a few months earlier in New York. The two, decide to rent a space at 575 Castro Street, and turn it into a camera store. During the 1970s, the (22) Castro Camerabecame t...
Today, the island's facilities are managed by the National Park Service as part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Visitors can reach the island by ferry ride from Pier 33, located between the San Francisco Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.
Although some interiors had to be recreated at Paramount in Hollywood, much of the movie was actually shot at the disused prison of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The crumbling structure needed extensive renovations, which have fortuitously helped to preserve it as a tourist attraction.
Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) from the shore of San Francisco. Alcatraz Island is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States and early military fortifications.
Feb 28, 2024 · By the end of the “Battle of Alcatraz” in the middle of San Francisco Bay, three inmates and two guards were dead.
So the film uses the real Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. As a national park, it wasn’t possible to close Alcatraz down, and much of the filming had to accommodate tour parties milling around.
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