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Alamo SquareSan FranciscoABC 1987–1995

Full House

The city was in the opening titles. The titles are real. In the opening title sequence the family is in Alamo Square Park, across from the Painted Ladies. Inside, the family lived on a set in Burbank. But the city in the titles is real, the house with the red door is real, and you can sit on that lawn. Lay out the blanket and start the car.

Start the car
Where we read it

Snapshots, all from the show’s run or the year before it: John Stamos backstage at the Grammy Awards, February 1990. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0. Bob Saget in 1986, a year before Full House began. Bernard Gotfryd · Public domain. Bob Saget and Gail Edwards with the director Joel Zwick, working on Full House, May 1993. Aquos San · CC BY-SA 4.0.

The credits drive · a Sunday in San Francisco

Top down,
titles rolling.

The titles put the Tanners on the bridge, on a cable car and on the lawn at Alamo Square, with the rest of the city round them. Take the drawn convertible round the same San Francisco, one landmark per press.

  1. Over the bridge
  2. Hold on to the cable car
  3. Down at the wharf
  4. Sand at the cove
  5. Up Telegraph Hill

Stop 1 of 5: The Golden Gate Bridge. Over the bridge.

Both red towers of the Golden Gate Bridge rising out of a bank of white fog, the city beyond
The Golden Gate Bridge above the fog, from Battery Spencer, September 2025. Dongmin03 · CC BY 4.0

1 · Over the bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge

The opening credits begin with the Tanners on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Built during the Great Depression, the bridge carries about 40 million vehicles a year.

Pedestrians may use only the east sidewalk, facing San Francisco: 5am–9pm in Pacific Daylight Time, 5am–6.30pm in Pacific Standard Time.

The Bridge Welcome Center is open daily from 9am to 6pm.

Walk the east sidewalk, the side facing the city: 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter. The Welcome Center opens daily 9am–6pm.

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Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

Walk the Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco · Free · 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter

The first shot of the titles, on foot. Walkers use the east sidewalk, the side facing the city; the Welcome Center is at the south end.

Sidewalk hours

Lombard Street · Russian Hill

Eight bends,
one block.

Guinness World Records lists it as the most crooked road: eight tight hairpin bends on a 27% incline, in 400 m.

0° of 1,440°

At the top of the block, between the hedges.

Brick switchbacks between flowering hedges on a steep hill, stairs running down beside them
The crooked block of Lombard Street from its stairs, July 2022. Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0
A 1987 colour photograph of cars winding down the hairpin bends of Lombard Street between hedges
Lombard Street in June 1987, the summer before Full House began. Infrogmation · CC BY-SA 4.0

Lombard Street is among the spots seen in the show or its opening credits over the years.

Walk the stairs on either side, or drive down slowly with the queue; it is one-way, downhill.

Where we read it

710–720 Steiner Street · Postcard Row

Repaint
the row.

The Painted Ladies at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square Park, appear in the opening credits of Full House, and in a cutaway in the first episode of Fuller House. Every house is somebody’s home; here you can paint them any colour you like.

Pick a paint pot, then press a house.

A row of pastel Victorian houses with steep gables facing a sloping lawn, downtown towers behind
Postcard Row: the Painted Ladies on Steiner Street, July 2022. Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0

The houses

710 Steiner Street, one of the Painted Ladies, was built in 1894 and is a private home, sold with its original woodwork in 2012.

The first episode of Fuller House cuts away to the Painted Ladies again.

Private homes. Look from the park or the pavement; do not climb the steps or knock.

Where we read it
A grassy hillside with people sitting in the sun below a row of painted Victorian houses and the city skyline
Alamo Square Park, looking across the lawn to Steiner Street, July 2022. Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0

The lawn: Alamo Square

Alamo Square Park, at Steiner and Hayes streets, is the park across from the Painted Ladies in the opening title sequence. A Full House fan who picnicked here in 2017 found the park much as it looked on television.

The park reopened on 24 May 2017 after about a year of work: new trees, new grass, drought-resistant plants and better water efficiency.

A free public park, open every day. Climb the lawn on the Steiner Street side for the view of the row and the towers behind.

Where we read it

1709 Broderick Street · a private home

Paint the
door red.

While most of the show was filmed in a studio, the Tanners’ house is real: 1709 Broderick Street. Its red door has been repainted since filming. The creator of Full House, Jeff Franklin, bought the Victorian in 2016 for roughly $4 million. The door had been painted light green, which confused fans looking for it; restoring the red doors was one of his first changes.

Light green. The fans walk straight past: in 2016 the green door confused people looking for the house.

Volume 8 of 10. Neighbours have posted a sign asking fans to be quieter.

  1. 1987–1995Built in 1883, the house was the exterior in the opening of nearly 200 episodes; interiors were filmed at a Burbank studio.
  2. 2016By 2016 the door had been painted light green and fans could not find the house; Jeff Franklin bought it and painted the doors red again.
  3. 2020–2025Franklin spent about $2 million restoring the exterior, sold it in November 2020 for $5.35 million, and in April 2025 it sold again, for $6 million.
  4. 2022In 2022 fans left flowers at the house after Bob Saget’s death. Concrete slabs in the back garden carry the stars’ handprints and signatures.
A row of painted Victorian houses with bay windows and front steps, green, cream and white, on a sunny street
Victorian houses on Fillmore Street in the Western Addition, April 2019: the kind of street the Tanner house stands on, not the house itself. Cullen328 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Please be kind

A private family home. Look from the pavement opposite, keep your voice down, keep off the steps, and do not block driveways. The house is named here but not pinned on the map.

Where we read it

Burbank · 546 km from Alamo Square

Inside was
Burbank.

The interiors of the Tanner house were filmed at a Burbank studio. In early March 1993 the cast flew to Florida after working on Warner Bros. soundstages in Burbank, California.

A white water tower with the Warner Bros. shield on a steel frame against a blue sky
The Warner Bros. water tower in Burbank, November 2020. Chris Yarzab · CC BY 2.0

A working studio. See it on the Studio Tour, which runs 8.30am–3.30pm from 3400 Warner Boulevard.

Where we read it
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood

3400 Warner Boulevard, Burbank · Tours 8.30am–3.30pm · book ahead

A guided tour of the working lot in Burbank where the Tanner house interiors stood on the soundstages.

Book the tour

The house from the titles. Lift the front to see where the family really lived.

Walt Disney World · March 1993

The House
meets the Mouse.

The cast filmed at Walt Disney World in early March 1993 for the two-part episode “The House Meets the Mouse”. The Tanners stayed at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, where the family gathered before their park days.

Three rockets on the lagoon. Light the first.

A long white Victorian-style hotel with red roofs across a wide blue lagoon
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa across the Seven Seas Lagoon, August 2017. Quarax · CC BY-SA 4.0

Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

Jesse sang his piano ballad to Becky in the Grand Floridian lobby.

A Disney resort hotel on the monorail loop to the Magic Kingdom; the lobby is open to resort guests and visitors dining there.

Where we read it
Cinderella Castle covered in bright coloured projected patterns against a night sky
Cinderella Castle lit by a projection show, Magic Kingdom, July 2021. Julie, Dave & Family · CC BY-SA 2.0

Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

The family goes to Walt Disney World; the two-part story ends at Cinderella Castle with the Rippers on stage and fireworks spelling out Danny’s proposal.

Inside the Magic Kingdom: a park ticket is needed. Main Street, U.S.A. leads straight to it.

Where we read it

The family, as themselves

Everywhere
you look.

John Stamos

Jesse Katsopolis

Uncle Jesse, the musician; his band the Rippers played the castle finale in Florida. Photographed backstage at the Grammys in 1990.

Photograph: John Stamos backstage at the Grammy Awards, February 1990. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0.

Where we read it

Fuller.

  1. February 2016Fuller House arrives on Netflix, the whole first season at once: D.J., Stephanie and Kimmy together again in San Francisco. The first episode cuts away to Postcard Row.
  2. 2 June 2020The last nine episodes. Danny, Jesse and Joey come home for a last goodbye.
Where we read it

Pack up the blanket

Everywhere
you can go.

Where it is now

11 places you can visit, in San Francisco, Burbank and Florida. Warner Bros. is a working studio, seen on its tour. The Painted Ladies and the Tanner house are private homes: look from the park and the pavement. The Tanner house is named but not pinned.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A free public park, open every day. Climb the lawn on the Steiner Street side for the view of the row and the towers behind.

  • General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Private homes. Look from the park or the pavement; do not climb the steps or knock.

  1. A grassy hillside with people sitting in the sun below a row of painted Victorian houses and the city skyline
    Alamo Square Park, looking across the lawn to Steiner Street, July 2022. Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Steiner Street and Hayes Street

    Alamo Square Park

    Alamo Square Park, at Steiner and Hayes streets, is the park across from the Painted Ladies in the opening title sequence.

    A free public park, open every day. Climb the lawn on the Steiner Street side for the view of the row and the towers behind.

    Where we read it
  2. A row of pastel Victorian houses with steep gables facing a sloping lawn, downtown towers behind
    Postcard Row: the Painted Ladies on Steiner Street, July 2022. Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0

    710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square Park

    The Painted Ladies (Postcard Row)

    The Painted Ladies at 710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square Park, appear in the opening credits of Full House, and in a cutaway in the first episode of Fuller House.

    Private homes. Look from the park or the pavement; do not climb the steps or knock.

    Where we read it

Stay

A room on the waterfront.

An old warehouse at the wharf, near the cove and the cable car.

Argonaut Hotel, a Noble House hotel

Argonaut Hotel

495 Jefferson Street, San Francisco

Not a filming location: 252 rooms and suites in the landmark Haslett Warehouse on the waterfront at Fisherman’s Wharf, a short walk from the cove and the Hyde Street cable car.

Check rooms

Go there

A bridge, a powerhouse, a studio.

The first shot on foot, the cable cars’ engine room and the lot in Burbank.

Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District

Walk the Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco · Free · 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter

The first shot of the titles, on foot. Walkers use the east sidewalk, the side facing the city; the Welcome Center is at the south end.

Sidewalk hours
Friends of the Cable Car Museum

The Cable Car Museum

1201 Mason Street, San Francisco · Free · closed Mondays

The powerhouse that still pulls the cables, with historic cars and the winding wheels. Then ride the Powell–Hyde line down to the cove, as the Tanners rode in the titles.

Plan a visit
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood

3400 Warner Boulevard, Burbank · Tours 8.30am–3.30pm · book ahead

A guided tour of the working lot in Burbank where the Tanner house interiors stood on the soundstages.

Book the tour
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San Francisco Full House and city tours

San Francisco

Live marketplace results for San Francisco tours that pass the Painted Ladies and the Full House house. Check each itinerary, and remember the house is a private home.

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What’s on

Nothing dated yet.

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Take it home

Four of the family, in print.

Memoirs by John Stamos, Bob Saget and Jodie Sweetin, and a book by Candace Cameron Bure.

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If You Would Have Told Me

John Stamos

Uncle Jesse’s memoir, published by Henry Holt in 2023.

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Dirty Daddy

Bob Saget

Saget on being a family man and a stand-up comedian, published by It Books in 2014.

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unSweetined

Jodie Sweetin

Stephanie’s actor on growing up on the show and after it, published in 2009.

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Reshaping It All

Candace Cameron Bure with Darlene Schacht

D.J.’s actor on fitness and faith, published by B&H in 2011.

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Where we read it

The scrapbook

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

12 of 12 places · 9 of 9 Moments

  • The Tanner house

    1709 Broderick Street, Lower Pacific Heights

    • The red door

      The house at 1709 Broderick Street stands in for the Tanners’ home in the opening of nearly 200 episodes; its door is red.

    • The green door

      By 2016 the door had been painted light green and fans could not find the house; Jeff Franklin bought it and painted the doors red again.

  • Alamo Square Park

    Steiner Street and Hayes Street

    • The picnic

      In the opening title sequence the family is in Alamo Square Park, across from the Painted Ladies.

  • The Painted Ladies (Postcard Row)

    710–720 Steiner Street, across from Alamo Square Park

    • Back to Postcard Row

      The first episode of Fuller House cuts away to the Painted Ladies again.

  • The Golden Gate Bridge

    US 101 across the Golden Gate; Welcome Center at the south end

    • Across the bridge

      The opening credits begin with the Tanners on the Golden Gate Bridge.

  • Fisherman’s Wharf

    Jefferson Street and Taylor Street, North Beach waterfront

    • Aquatic Park Cove

      The beach at the foot of Hyde Street, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

      • Lombard Street

        The crooked block between Hyde and Leavenworth, Russian Hill

        • Coit Tower

          Telegraph Hill Boulevard, Telegraph Hill

          • The cable cars and the Cable Car Museum

            1201 Mason Street, Nob Hill; Powell–Hyde and Powell–Mason lines

            • On the cable car

              The Tanners ride a cable car in the opening of the show.

          • Warner Bros. Studios

            3400 Warner Boulevard, Burbank (Studio Tour entrance)

            • The house in Burbank

              Inside, the Tanner house is a set on Warner Bros. soundstages in Burbank.

          • Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

            Magic Kingdom Park, Walt Disney World, Bay Lake, Florida

            • The House Meets the Mouse

              The family goes to Walt Disney World; the two-part story ends at Cinderella Castle with the Rippers on stage and fireworks spelling out Danny’s proposal.

          • Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa

            4401 Floridian Way, Bay Lake, Florida

            • A ballad in the lobby

              Jesse sings a piano ballad to Becky in the lobby of the Grand Floridian.

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