Take Me To The Sanatorium...

One of the more interesting tid bits about or neighborhood is that the building across the street from our house played a role Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.  The movie was filmed in San Francisco and many local sites were used as backdrops to Hitchcock's story.


In the movie, after visiting Madeline's grave, Jimmy Stewart's character, Scottie, suffers a nightmare causing him to have a nervous breakdown requiring treatment at a sanatorium. He is taken to the St. Joseph's Hospital on Buena Vista East facing Buena Vista Park.  The below images show a screen shot from Vertigo (top) and the same view from just a few years ago (bottom).

The hospital is now the Park Hill Condominium and the back end of the building on Park Hill faces our house.