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The Golden Gate Bridge rising out of the fog
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FILMING LOCATIONS

What's Up Doc?

7 places in San Francisco.

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City context · The Golden Gate Bridge rising out of the fog · not a featured filming location
Image credits
Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped location photograph
Atmospheric colour treatment · not a film frame
A world beyond the screen

Explore What's Up Doc? in San Francisco, one location at a time.

These places are linked to the production by the sources below. They do not identify exact camera positions or necessarily the settings portrayed on screen. Check current access before visiting.

01 / The map

Find your way in.

7 public-place or area references. Private properties and unlocated historic sites stay off the map.

Place and area markers · not exact camera positions

Use the public realm or normal visitor access only. Confirm opening, ticketing and photography rules before travelling.

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Selected: Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth
02 / The places

Where it happened.

Read the connection, see what remains, and plan around the real place.

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Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth

Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth is linked to What's Up Doc? by the sources below. The San Francisco Film Commission lists this location for What's Up Doc?.

Before you go

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Hyde Street Pier

Hyde Street Pier is linked to What's Up Doc? by the sources below. The San Francisco Film Commission lists this location for What's Up Doc?.

Before you go

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Alta Plaza Park (Steiner Street)

Alta Plaza Park (Steiner Street) is linked to What's Up Doc? by the sources below. The San Francisco Film Commission lists this location for What's Up Doc?.

Before you go

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22nd Avenue & Balboa Street (Richmond District)

22nd Avenue & Balboa Street (Richmond District) is linked to What's Up Doc? by the sources below. The San Francisco Film Commission lists this location for What's Up Doc?.

Before you go

Use the public realm or normal visitor access only. Confirm opening, ticketing and photography rules before travelling.

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Starbucks at 333 O'Farrell St.

Starbucks at 333 O'Farrell St. is linked to What's Up Doc? by the sources below. The San Francisco Film Commission lists this location for What's Up Doc?.

Before you go

Use the public realm or normal visitor access only. Confirm opening, ticketing and photography rules before travelling.

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Chinatown

Chinatown is linked to What's Up Doc? by the sources below. The San Francisco Film Commission lists this location for What's Up Doc?.

Before you go

Use the public realm or normal visitor access only. Confirm opening, ticketing and photography rules before travelling.

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03 / One way through

Follow What's Up Doc? through San Francisco

A suggested story order, with practical access notes at every stop.

Follow the journey →
  1. 01Lombard Street between Hyde and LeavenworthTenderloin
  2. 02St. Peter & Paul's Church (666 Filbert Street, Washington Square)North Beach
  3. 03Hyde Street PierRussian Hill
  4. 04Alta Plaza Park (Steiner Street)Pacific Heights
  5. 0522nd Avenue & Balboa Street (Richmond District)Outer Richmond
  6. 06Starbucks at 333 O'Farrell St.Tenderloin
  7. 07ChinatownChinatown
Stay in the world

Wake up close to the story.

Places to stay in San Francisco, selected as practical bases for exploring the mapped locations in What's Up Doc?.

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Viceroy

Hotel Zeppelin

Union Square

A central base for Union Square, North Beach and downtown screen routes. Its neighbourhood overlaps the geography mapped in What's Up Doc?.

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Fairmont

Fairmont San Francisco

Nob Hill

A landmark hilltop base for Hitchcock and central-city Worlds. It is offered as a city base, not as a filming location; check the route to each mapped stop.

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Hotel Kabuki

Japantown

A geographically relevant base near the Fillmore and the western music routes. It is offered as a city base, not as a filming location; check the route to each mapped stop.

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A stay is identified as an actual screen, music or cultural location only where the card says so. Always check the route to the places you want to visit, current room terms and accessibility before booking.

Experience it

Step beyond the map.

Bookable activities anchored to this World’s actual places, with live itineraries left to the operator.

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Experience Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth and Tenderloin

Tenderloin

Search bookable experiences around Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth, a mapped place in What's Up Doc?. Confirm that the current itinerary includes it before booking.

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Go deeper around St. Peter & Paul's Church (666 Filbert Street, Washington Square)

North Beach

Search bookable experiences around St. Peter & Paul's Church (666 Filbert Street, Washington Square), a mapped place in What's Up Doc?. Confirm that the current itinerary includes it before booking.

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Marketplace results are not described as official or title-specific tours unless the operator explicitly says so. Confirm the itinerary, meeting point and access before booking.

What’s happening

A reason to stay longer.

Exact title and mapped-place matches come first. A clearly labelled city film or music programme may follow when it helps extend the journey.

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Official venue programme

What’s on at Castro Theatre

Castro District

A current official film and screen programme for visitors extending What's Up Doc? into the wider San Francisco cultural calendar. It is not presented as a title-specific event.

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A shared venue or neighbourhood connects a programme to the map; a city-level programme connects only to the World’s medium. Neither implies a themed event, cast appearance or artist performance. Confirm dates, location, access and tickets with the organiser.

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Take the world home

Watch. Listen. Read. Own.

Exact-title physical editions, records, books, memorabilia and genuinely matched Printed Originals pieces for What's Up Doc?.

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What's Up Doc? on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD

Browse exact-title physical editions; check region, format and release details.

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What's Up Doc? scripts and making-of books

Browse screenplays, making-of books and published histories connected to this World.

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What's Up Doc? memorabilia

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The source notes

Filming locations, live venues, recording history, and lyrical geography are labelled separately. Location photographs are not production stills or exact screen matches.

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