Steep streets of modern and Victorian houses, with garages at street level and downtown towers above the rooftops.
What Potrero Hill looks like
Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood where the streets climb steeply and many houses follow the slope. Some have long staircases up to the front door and detached garages at street level. Uphill, the houses are usually two to four storeys. Downhill they look like single storeys from the street.
The styles run from late-19th-century Victorians to modern houses built in the 21st century. Modern houses on have stucco and cladding fronts and large windows. On the corner of 18th and Missouri, a Victorian house holds a bookstore on its ground floor.
has seven sharp turns and is more crooked than Lombard Street. The higher streets have views of the skyline and the bay. The hill is also one of the sunniest neighborhoods in the city.
The on De Haro Street was designed by Julia Morgan and completed in 1922. The on 20th Street has a two-storey glass front under a wooden canopy.
has a grassed slope and a dirt path beside a block wall. A blue house with a red roof stands above the slope.
Shot in Potrero Hill
Bullitt (1968) shot parts of its car chase on the hill, and Dirty Harry (1971) has a body discovered on a hillside lot at Texas and Sierra Streets. Pacific Heights (1990) used a Victorian at Texas and 19th Streets, and the series The Streets of San Francisco (1972 to 1977) used a house on De Haro Street as a police officer's home. Let There Be Carnage (2021), the Venom sequel, used the former Anchor Brewing Company at 1705 Mariposa Street as a police station. After the Hunt (2024) filmed at the Potrero Neighborhood House on De Haro Street, and the series Murder in the First used the Potrero Hill Recreation Center on Arkansas Street in its second season.
Sweet November, 2001
The city's film records list Christopher's Books at 1400 18th Street as a Sweet November location. Potrero View calls the 18th and Missouri intersection a frequent casting call, and Mission Local's July 2025 profile still gives the store's address as 1400 18th Street.
Angelino Heights sits on a hill about 500 feet high. It holds many notable Eastlake and Queen Anne Victorians. The 1300 block of Carroll Avenue has the highest concentration of 19th-century Victorian homes in Los Angeles. Several of its houses already appear in the TV series Charmed, the film Grandma's Boy and the Fast and Furious films, so frame the front of any house a viewer might know from those. Try searching Carroll Avenue Victorians now.
Queen Anne in Seattle, Washington
Queen Anne slopes carry seven of the twenty steepest streets in Seattle and 120 pedestrian staircases. That grade and stair pattern is what Potrero Hill shares with it. Frame the stairs and garages tight, since a wide shot of the hill takes in Seattle's downtown, which sits close by. Try searching stairs and garages now.
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