Vertigo - Scottie Follows Madeleine - 2
Madeleine next leads Scottie from the flower shop to Mission Dolores. Every block traversed is listed and described sequentially. An asterisk (*) indicates a route discontinuity, ie a location jump.
The Lineup - Motel With A View
A third member of the drug cartel drives to meet the two from Miami - they are staying at a motel with an expansive view - the Bayside Motel, 2011 Bayshore Boulevard at Hester Ave on Bayshore Heights (map). (Click on the images for a closer look).
Then ... The view looks south towards San Bruno Mountain across Visitacion Valley's Little Hollywood neighborhood. The camera looks straight down Peninsula Avenue and the Cow Palace in Daly City can't be missed in the distance over to the right.
... and Now, the motel was demolished a few years ago to make way for the Bayside Vista condominium development. The recent photo below of the same view was taken from near to where the movie camera was set up. Peninsula Ave is in the center and the distant Cow Palace is still there towards the right.
... where the motel used to be ... (arrowed), taken from the neighboring Bayshore Park across Highway 101 - the new development is atop the Bayshore Heights bluff.
Here's an entry from an advertising brochure showing a pictorial layout of the Bayside Motel. The two-story block of units at far right, perched on the edge of the bluff and facing San Bruno Mountain, was used for the movie scene. Their room, on the back side of the building, is marked by the arrow.
Then ... The new guy, Sandy (Richard Jaekel), has been tapped to be the wheelman - he knocks on the motel door, room 33, to hook up with the other two. The view looks west across Bayshore Boulevard to a Visitacion Valley hillside. MacLaren Park is beyond the top of the hill.
... and Now, after a half century of suburban sprawl.
Then ... Sandy has to explain to a skeptical Dancer, (Eli Wallach, below on the right) and his mentor honcho Julian (Robert Keith, on the left) why he's the right guy for the driving job. They take some convincing.
... and Now, the same view today.
The Lineup - Arrival In San Francisco
After the bungled attempt to retrieve the smuggled heroin the drug ring calls in two out-of-town crooks to take over. They fly in from Miami.
Then ... They fly in on a United DC-7 over the Golden Gate Bridge. Marin County to the north is at the top of the frame and the Presidio at the bottom.
... and Now, there's a large tourist parking lot on each side of the bridge and on the northern side there's a marina at Horseshoe Bay, home of the Presidio Yacht Club. Behind that is the former U.S. Army Post, Fort Baker, now housing the Discovery Museum and an upscale hotel - The Lodge At Cavallo Point.
Then ... They land at Terminal 2 at San Francisco Airport, opened 4 years earlier in 1954 and known then as Central Terminal (map).
...and Now, Today there are 4 terminals including the $1B international terminal opened in 2000. Terminal 2 still looks the same from the runway although there's a new control tower being built behind it.
The Sniper - Third Victim's House
Miller enters a TV arcade and watches the program. He listens to a Mrs Fitzpatrick (Lilian Bond), below on the left, exhorting the viewers to buy charity tickets - she gives out her name and address. Trusting times. There was something about her, maybe because she was a brunette like his first two victims, maybe she reminded him of his abusing mother, whatever it was she was now a marked woman.
The sniper has struck again - Mrs Fitzpatrick has been found shot outside her home.
Then ... Mrs Fitzpatrick's residence was the imposing 55 room mansion at 2080 Washington Street in Pacific Heights (map).
... in 1956 ... the same mansion, known as the Spreckels Mansion, built in 1913 in the French Baroque style by the sugar king Adolph Spreckels.
... and Now, almost hidden and currently the home of author Danielle Steel.