Time After Time - Embarcadero Center Chase
In Stevenson’s Hyatt Regency hotel room Herbert announces that he has pursued him through time in order to turn him in. A scuffle breaks out - Stevenson flees, Herbert in close pursuit.
Then … They find themselves one in each of side-by-side elevators heading down to the hotel lobby.
… and Now, this is the same view today craning up from the hotel’s lowest floor. Three of the elevators are visible from this vantage point. The elevators have been replaced, now without external strip lights.
Then … Herbert makes the wrong choice trying to run down the up escalator in the lobby as Stevenson forces his way down the other.
… and Now, updated, but the escalators are still there. Citysleuth got tired of waiting for two elevators to be here at the same time for the perfect match to the ‘Then’ image above. He was experiencing random motion watching them go up and down.
The chase continues through the adjacent Embarcadero Center complex of high-rise office buildings, shown here in this map. (When the movie was filmed 4 Embarcadero Center was not yet built).
Then … Stevenson runs out of the hotel; here he’s on the Promenade level of Three Embarcadero Center.
… and Now, he was running towards the footbridge that connects to Two Embarcadero Center.
Then … He flees across that footbridge.
… and Now, the bridge, crossing Davis Street, hasn’t changed; the planters, though similar at first sight, have slightly different bases.
Then … Which way did he go - across the footbridge or down the staircases that spiral down on either side of him?
… and Now, looking across the footbridge towards Two Embarcadero Center.
Then … He descends the steps leading down from the footbridge to Two Embarcadero Center.
… and Now, there’s a little more greenery now.
Then … Instead of crossing the footbridge Herbert instead chooses the spiral stairs down to their lowest level.
… and Now, there’s now a large fern shrub planted there.
Then … Herbert is on the Lobby level of One Embarcadero Center as he runs past stainless steel sculptures. The one on the left will be seen again as the chase unfolds - it’s 82 feet tall.
… and Now, those sculptures, created in 1971 by Swiss artist Willi Gutmann, are still there but the surround has since been ‘modernized’.