In the police chase in the opening sequence, Scottie followed the fleeing suspect and the cop over the rooftops of Taylor Street, running from Washington toward Jackson.

Scottie's college sweetheart and unheeded voice of reason Midge lived on Telegraph Hill, though the scenes in her apartment were filmed in a studio with a faux backdrop of the view.

Ernie’s, the Montgomery Street mainstay where Scottie first glimpses Madeleine, closed in the mid-90s and reopened for a time as Essex Supper Club. There are some rather fancy condos next door, at No. 845.

The Brocklebank, at Mason and Sacramento, is the home of Gavin and Madeleine Elster. In real life, the building is a privately managed rental—which is why you never see any listings for it—with a lengthy wait list. Apartments are either one-bedrooms or three-bedrooms.

When Midge and Scottie do their reconnaissance on Carlotta Valdes, they head over to a fictional bookshop, Argosy, to quiz the all-knowing owner. The bookstore is based on the Argonaut Book Shop, which opened at 336 Kearny Street in 1941. After the Bank of America HQ shot up a block away, owner Robert Haines’s rent spiked accordingly, and he moved the store six blocks to its current location, 786 Sutter. Robert Jr. runs the ship now. The Argosy you see in the movie is a studio replica of Argonaut.

Built in 1888, the Fortmann Mansion on Gough Street enjoyed a star turn as the McKittrick Hotel, the manse that Carlotta's husband built and abandoned her in. The property was vacant during filming and was demolished in 1959. Now there’s a sports field in its place.

In the 50s, the flower shop where Madeleine buys a copycat of Carlotta’s bouquet was located at 224 Grant, now a 7 for All Mankind store.

Madeleine visits Carlotta's portrait in the Legion of Honor, and after her death Scottie lurks around a young woman sitting in front of the painting, vaguely creeping her out. As the Hitchcock Zone tells it, Vera Miles (of Psycho fame) originally posed for the Carlotta portrait, but the results were a mess, and Paramount eventually brought in artist John Ferren to create the painting shown in the movie.

According to the Chronicle, Carlotta’s gravestone remained on the Mission Dolores grounds for years after filming was over—it figured into some local tours—but all the traffic through real gravestones eventually convinced the bishop to send it packing.

On one of their early dates, Scottie and Judy stroll by the lagoon at the Palace of Fine Arts.

The post-Madeleine Judy Barton is a shopgirl living in the somewhat seedy Empire Hotel, on Sutter between Hyde and Leavenworth. It was known for a while as the York Hotel but kind of couldn’t help changing its name to Hotel Vertigo.