Introduction
This photo album is about 900 Lombard Street at the corner of Lombard and Jones. The handsome mid-century residence with views of Coit Tower is featured as Jimmy Stewart's home in the Hitchcock movie Vertigo. The first three pictures in this album are movie stills.
Vertigo is hands down my favorite movie shot in the City. Hitchcock really "got it". The movie is Hitchcock-creepy. Which is to say, not the best story line or scary at all, but super-stylized. I love it. I love seeing the places that existed when I was a kid that no longer exist and I love seeing the icons that endure.
One of my morning walk routes travels along Hyde and down Lombard. During the day Lombard Street is clogged with cars driving down the "crookedest street in the world". But at 6:00am I have it all to myself.
One block beyond the crookedest block of Lombard, on the corner is 900 Lombard.
