Marina District
About Marina District
The Marina spreads along the northern waterfront. The land itself is mostly artificial. A cove was filled gradually from the late 1800s through the early 1910s, partly with rubble from the 1906 earthquake but mostly with sand and mud dredged from the bay. The large push happened around 1912 in preparation for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
The flat streets and Mediterranean-style architecture you see today went up after the expo wrapped because the neighborhood is built on liquefaction-prone fill, it took some of the worst structural damage in the city during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Many of the buildings you walk past today are rebuilt or seismically retrofitted since then.
Filmed in Marina District
35 recorded shoots across 14 places here.
- Palace of Fine ArtsVertigo 1958/Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021/Time After Time 1979/The Woman In Red 1984/The Rock 1996
- Marina GreenTime After Time 1979/Bullitt 1968/Blue Jasmine 2013
- Marina Green, Marina DistrictStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986/Dirty Harry 1971
- Under Highway 101Vegas in Space 1992
- Chestnut & Divisadero StreetsTime After Time 1979
- Lombard & Divisadero StreetsTime After Time 1979
- Lombard & Laguna StreetsTime After Time 1979
- Lombard & Broderick StreetsTime After Time 1979
- 2340 Francisco StreetTime After Time 1979
- Lombard & Fillmore StreetsTime After Time 1979
- Grid around Marina DistrictThe Phone/Jexi 2019
- Chestnust Street at SteinerThe Last Thing He Told Me 2023
- 2800 Scott StreetSudden Fear 1952
- West Harbor, Marina DistrictStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986
From the San Francisco Film Commission permit record. Every film shot in San Francisco.
Where to Eat
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Things to Do
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Wave Organ
A sound installation built in May 1986 by Peter Richards of the Exploratorium with master mason George Gonzales, made of 25 PVC pipes and stone salvaged from the demolished Laurel Hill Cemetery. Free, open around the clock, on the jetty past the St. Francis Yacht Club. The sound is stronger at high tide; check NOAA tide tables before you go.
House of Air
An indoor trampoline park inside a 1921 armory building at Crissy Field that once housed the biplanes of the 91st Observation Squadron. The 42 foot double doors remain, with more than 8,000 square feet of trampolines and a second floor walkway.
Hopper’s Hands
Look below, there's paw prints for dogs to high five too!
Palace of Fine Arts
Free and open daily. Expect wedding photographers and picnickers on the lawn. Check the theater calendar for current shows.
Presidio Theater
The schedule changes weekly, so check the calendar before you go. The free PresidiGo shuttle stops out front, and there is free evening parking under the Main Post.
Fort Mason Center
Shop the Sunday morning farmers market, then picnic on the great lawn with views across the water toward Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.
