Cathy drives to the waterfront to pick up her boyfriend Blake for a dinner date. The scene was filmed on a pier at Fisherman's Wharf that no longer exists.
This undated aerial photo looks west across Fisherman's Wharf in the lower half and Hyde Street Pier above it. In it, we see the pier, an extension from what is now called Al Scoma Way, before it was removed
Then ... Cathy drives to Blake's tug, berthed at the end of the pier - behind her, across the water, we see the side of Pier 45. Note the gap between the two sheds, more clearly seen in the above aerial.
Then ... In this shot Blake's tug is in the right foreground as we look down the length of the pier behind Cathy's car towards the glowing neon signs of Fisherman's Wharf restaurants. The building on the right at the far end of the pier was a small coffee shop serving the local fishermen.
... in 1939 ... This vintage photo reveals a closer look at that white building. CitySleuth has heard, he hastens to say second hand, that it was a rooming house for sailors but was eventually closed down to put a stop to illicit nocturnal visitors. This building also showed up in the 1950 movie Woman On The Run. Pier 45 Shed B with the twin Shed A alongside it is off to the left.
... and Now, the building was replaced in 1981 by the Fishermen's and Seamen's Memorial Chapel. Inside hang plaques bearing the names of those whose lives were taken by the sea and a bell in the campanile tolls periodically in their honor.
But Blake sends Cathy away - still smarting from Mason cancelling his tugboat contract, he intends to shake him down, unwittingly setting himself up as a prime suspect.
