Dirty Harry - Chico Quits The Force
Then … Callahan visits Chico recovering in hospital from the injuries suffered in the shootout at the Mount Davidson Cross. The south-facing view shows the Army Street gas holder on the left, BayView Hill in the center and San Bruno Mountain in the far right distance. This was filmed on a rooftop patio at San Francisco General Hospital in the Mission district where San Bruno Avenue (seen through the window) tees into 23rd Street (map).
… in 1937 … that building has since been demolished but here’s a great 1937 photo of it showing the building as it still was in 1971 for Dirty Harry. Situated on 23rd Street facing San Bruno Avenue, it was known as the Chest Building. The arrow points to the rooftop patio where this scene took place.
and Now … the building was replaced by the hospital’s Building 5 in 1976 but that in turn has been recently replaced by this new Research and Development Building, scheduled for completion in 2023.
Callahan tells Chico there’s a place for him in the department when he gets back but he and his wife have decided it’s best he should leave. The gabled roof seen through the window behind them is the one in the center of the building in the 1937 image above.
The visitors leave via a stairwell that’s open on two sides on each level all the way down.
The south-facing openings can be seen at far left in the 1937 image above and below; this camera’s POV of the opening seen in the capture above is the west side of the building around the corner as indicated by the arrow (note in each image the border of vertically oriented bricks at the top of the opening).
