The film Vertigo is also a great way to see what San Francisco used to look like. This is one of the only ways to see the old Union Square, classic old restaurants, bookshops, and flower stands that never made it past the 80's greed movement or the recent dot.com money-grab. Some of the places in the movie haven't changed a bit. The place where Kim Novak falls into the bay, Fort Point, remains at the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge. If James Stewart really jumped into the water there, it would have had to be at high tide, otherwise the great actor may have hit the jagged rocks that line the outcropping there.
San Juan Bautista, located a short drive south of San Francisco, is also preserved exactly the way it looked in front of Alfred Hitchcock's cameras many years ago. And who could forget The Palace of the Legion of Honor? That museum is a San Francisco landmark that I hope will never change. Sadly, there is no portrait of Carlotta Valdez inside, but they had a nice Picasso exhibit not too long ago.
The Mission Dolores is also still relatively unchanged throughout the years, even though the neighborhood surrounding it has changed many times in past years.