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United States / WHERE IT WAS

San Francisco

Fog, hills and a cut to the bay.
Suspense on the waterfront, chases on impossible grades and music built in shared rooms.

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Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photograph, cropped and graded
164 stories & collections1278 unique locations1722 World–Place links
Flagship Worlds

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Individually designed Worlds with places in San Francisco. Their pins are on the map below.

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Credits

180: Foundations World Economic Forum · CC BY 2.0. A Man on The Inside: The Next Web from Amsterdam, Netherlands · CC BY-SA 2.0. A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities: Benoît Prieur · CC0. A View to a Kill: Eric E Castro from San Francisco · CC BY 2.0. Alex Baker: Hannadana · CC BY-SA 4.0. Alive: Dllu · CC BY-SA 4.0. Always Be My Maybe: LEONARDO DASILVA · CC BY 3.0. Americana: Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0. Ant-Man: Brocken Inaglory · CC BY-SA 3.0. Ant-Man and the Wasp: The Erica Chang · CC BY 3.0. Apocalypse Now: Nathalie2010 · CC BY-SA 4.0. Aretha Franklin: Atlantic Records · CC0. Ari Gold: Rosiestep · CC BY-SA 4.0. Ballers: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0. Basic Instinct: Asad Mehmood / Pexels · Pexels License. BD Wong: Paul Rudman at https://www.flickr.com/photos/thecanonrattman/ · CC BY-SA 3.0. Beat San Francisco: Emily Mathews from Ann Arbor, MI · CC BY 2.0. Beautiful Boy: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY 2.0.

THE CITY THROUGH CULTURE

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Movies, television and music. Different ways to discover the same city.

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FOLLOW A DIFFERENT THREAD

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Explore collection areas across Greater San Francisco. These include neighbourhoods, districts and neighbouring cities.

Presidio ↗︎Lincoln Park ↗︎Mission District ↗︎Downtown ↗︎Russian Hill ↗︎Potrero Hill ↗︎Financial District ↗︎Golden Gate Park ↗︎Mount Davidson ↗︎Alamo Square ↗︎North Beach ↗︎Haight Ashbury ↗︎
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San Francisco Bay ↗︎Fillmore District ↗︎Western Addition ↗︎san francisco ↗︎Marina ↗︎Civic Center ↗︎Mission ↗︎Financial District/South Beach ↗︎Chinatown ↗︎South of Market ↗︎Inner Sunset ↗︎Sunset/Parkside ↗︎Bayview Hunters Point ↗︎Castro/Upper Market ↗︎Inner Richmond ↗︎Outer Richmond ↗︎Nob Hill ↗︎Tenderloin ↗︎West of Twin Peaks ↗︎Pacific Heights ↗︎Hayes Valley ↗︎Bernal Heights ↗︎Lone Mountain/USF ↗︎Japantown ↗︎Mission Bay ↗︎Treasure Island ↗︎Twin Peaks ↗︎Seacliff ↗︎Noe Valley ↗︎Excelsior ↗︎Presidio Heights ↗︎Outer Mission ↗︎Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside ↗︎McLaren Park ↗︎Portola ↗︎Glen Park ↗︎Lakeshore ↗︎Santa Clara ↗︎2030 Union Street at Buchanan ↗︎The Embarcadero at Howard Street ↗︎Guadalupe Canyon Parkway ↗︎Van Ness Avenue at Bay Street ↗︎Church Street at 20th Street ↗︎Laguna Honda Boulevard at Dewey Boulevard ↗︎14th Avenue and Noriega Street ↗︎101 East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard ↗︎Middlefield Road ↗︎2200 Bridgeway ↗︎UC Berkeley campus ↗︎US 101 across the Golden Gate; Welcome Center at the south end ↗︎Telegraph Hill Boulevard ↗︎Marin County ↗︎Maiden Lane ↗︎Kearny Street just above Broadway ↗︎44 Church Street ↗︎41 Tunnel Road ↗︎2 Jack London Square ↗︎2200 Broadway ↗︎916 Kearny Street ↗︎US 101 ↗︎2600 Geneva Avenue ↗︎795 Willow Road ↗︎Oppenheimer Way ↗︎Sproul Plaza ↗︎2475 Telegraph Avenue ↗︎940 Sutter Street ↗︎Jackson Square ↗︎Union Square ↗︎
LOOK AGAIN AT A FAMILIAR PLACE

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LET THE STORY LEAD

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Connected film Worlds.

Music location collection

Music, in place.

Music videos, cover images and recording history. Each connection links to its source. 3 named locations have supported map pins; locations awaiting coordinates remain below.

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6 Romolo Place, San Francisco, California

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1 music connection and sources

DIG

Boz Scaggs · Album / sleeve photography · Sourced

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1671 McAllister Street, San Francisco, California

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1 music connection and sources

Live In San Francisco

Archie Shepp · Album / sleeve photography · Sourced

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1661 15th Street , San Francisco, California

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Together

Country Joe & The Fish · Album / sleeve photography · Sourced

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