In the first chapter Mary Ann Singleton, on her fifth night in San Francisco, drinks three Irish coffees at the Buena Vista and decides to call her mother in Cleveland.
She makes the call outside, by the cable-car stop next to the café, to say she is not going back.
The Buena Vista began serving Irish coffee on 10 November 1952, after the travel writer Stanton Delaplane and the owner Jack Koeppler worked out how to make the cream float.
Tales of the City began here. In 1976 Maupin tried to write a newspaper story about the Marina Safeway, then a well-known pick-up spot on Wednesday nights; when no one would talk honestly, he turned it into fiction.
In the first book Mary Ann meets Michael “Mouse” Tolliver at this Safeway.
In the novel Edgar Halcyon sits down on a bench in Washington Square, where he meets Anna Madrigal; their romance begins in the park.
The park covers 2.8 acres of North Beach, beside Saints Peter and Paul Church.
The Film Commission lists North Beach, and Grant and Green, as locations for the 2019 series.
The Film Commission lists Lombard Street from Hyde to Larkin as a location for the 2019 series.
The one-way block between Hyde and Leavenworth has eight hairpin turns, built in 1922 to tame a 27 per cent grade.
In the first chapter Mary Ann Singleton, on her fifth night in San Francisco, drinks three Irish coffees at the Buena Vista and decides to call her mother in Cleveland.
She makes the call outside, by the cable-car stop next to the café, to say she is not going back.
The Buena Vista began serving Irish coffee on 10 November 1952, after the travel writer Stanton Delaplane and the owner Jack Koeppler worked out how to make the cream float.
In the novel Michael enters the dance contest at the EndUp to help pay his rent, and wins $100, but loses Jon over it.
The EndUp opened on 15 November 1973; its Jockey Short Dance Contest ran from 1974 to 1978.
For the 1993 series, Firehouse 7 on 16th Street, also known as the Kilowatt bar, stood in for the EndUp, inside and out.
The Film Commission lists Castro and 18th, and the Castro District, as locations for the 2019 series.
Life in the Castro in the 1970s was a basis for Tales of the City; by 1973 Harvey Milk had opened his camera shop on Castro Street.
Netflix premiered the first episode of the 2019 series here on the opening night of the San Francisco International Film Festival in April 2019. Maupin and Laura Linney were there; Olympia Dukakis was not, and the audience nearly cried when her face came on screen.
Timothy Pflueger designed it; it opened on 22 June 1922, gained its marquee in 1937 and became San Francisco Historic Landmark No. 100 in 1976.
Twenty-six years after the first series, Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis came back as Mary Ann and Mrs Madrigal, with Paul Gross as Brian and Barbara Garrick as DeDe; Murray Bartlett played Michael, and Elliot Page, credited as Ellen Page, played Shawna. Ten episodes, made by Lauren Morelli with a writers’ room that was entirely LGBTQ.
The inside of 28 Barbary Lane was built in New York. The outside was San Francisco: the Castro, the Mission, the Tenderloin, North Beach. It won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Limited Series, the third for Tales of the City.
Netflix turned Dolores Park into a film set in October 2018, for a shoot of six days with about 85 Bay Area crew; the Film Commission lists it for the 2019 series.
The park slopes down from the southwest, with an open view north-east over downtown.
The Film Commission lists Clarion Alley, and the Mission District, as locations for the 2019 series.
The alley is known for the murals of the Clarion Alley Mural Project.
The Film Commission lists City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, as a location for the 2019 series.
Founded in 1953 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin as the first all-paperback bookshop in the United States, it was made an official historic landmark in 2001.
The Film Commission lists Lyon Street and Broadway as a location for the 2019 series.
In 1993 Alastair Reid directed all six episodes from Richard Kramer’s scripts, with Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal, Laura Linney as Mary Ann, Marcus D’Amico as Michael, Chloe Webb as Mona, Paul Gross as Brian, Donald Moffat as Edgar Halcyon, Barbara Garrick as DeDe and Thomas Gibson as Beauchamp. Maupin appears in a cameo in all three miniseries. Dukakis was nominated for a BAFTA.
Macondray Lane is the real lane behind Barbary Lane: Maupin confirmed it in the 2017 documentary The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.
In the first chapter Mary Ann Singleton, on her fifth night in San Francisco, drinks three Irish coffees at the Buena Vista and decides to call her mother in Cleveland.
Tales of the City began here. In 1976 Maupin tried to write a newspaper story about the Marina Safeway, then a well-known pick-up spot on Wednesday nights; when no one would talk honestly, he turned it into fiction.
The Film Commission lists Lombard Street from Hyde to Larkin as a location for the 2019 series.
The Film Commission lists Lyon Street and Broadway as a location for the 2019 series.
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