Virtual Vertigo Tour: Part Six
Today we're taking the scenic route. After leaving the Legion of Honor the second time in the film, Kim Novak's character Madeleine Elster drives East on El Camino Del Mar:

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Taking the longer way around through the Richmond District and entering the Presidio at the Presidio Street entrance (instead of just entering at 25th avenue, where they just were):

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Making their way down to Fort Point Rd (apparently now called Long Avenue and Marine Drive):

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... to arrive at our destination, just below the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Point, where Madeleine throws herself into the bay while entranced by the spirit of Carlotta Valdes:

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And here it is as Hitchcock framed it (I'm starting to think the Google folks were inspired by Hitch):


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Taking the longer way around through the Richmond District and entering the Presidio at the Presidio Street entrance (instead of just entering at 25th avenue, where they just were):

Click the photo for a pinpoint location on Google Maps.

Making their way down to Fort Point Rd (apparently now called Long Avenue and Marine Drive):

Click the photo for a pinpoint location on Google Maps.


Click the photo for a pinpoint location on Google Maps.

... to arrive at our destination, just below the Golden Gate Bridge at Fort Point, where Madeleine throws herself into the bay while entranced by the spirit of Carlotta Valdes:

Click the photo for a pinpoint location on Google Maps.
And here it is as Hitchcock framed it (I'm starting to think the Google folks were inspired by Hitch):

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