Virtual Vertigo Tour: Part Three

Driving down Bush Street, Madeleine takes a right down Grant Avenue. At the intersection, if you look to your left, you'll see the famous entrance to Chinatown.


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Now we're driving the wrong way down Grant to take a left into the alley where the back of the flower shop is located. Notice that the lamp posts are the only things that are familiar about the 1958 version of this street. In reality, the alley that Madeleine turns down isn't the alley that she ends up in, and is a few blocks behind her:


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After warping space through the magic of film editing, Madeleine arrives at Claude Lane, and the rear entrance to the flower shop where she buys the bouquet of flowers to take to our destination in Part Four.


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For this post, I referenced Vertigo... Then and Now quite a bit. It's a great resource and I heartily recommend it for more factoids about the locations of Vertigo.