The Sunset
About The Sunset
The Sunset is the residential grid south of Golden Gate Park, running from Stanyan Street out to the Pacific. It is one of the largest residential neighborhoods in the city by area and population. The neighborhood splits roughly into the Inner Sunset (closer to the park, around 9th Avenue and Irving) and the Outer Sunset (closer to the ocean, along Noriega and Judah).
Filmed in The Sunset
17 recorded shoots across 14 places here.
- Tank Hill ParkThe Diary of a Teenage Girl 2015/Quitters 2015/DEVS 2020
- Ocean Park MotelChance- Season 1 ep110 2016/Chance- Season 1 ep109 2016
- 16th Avenue StepsThe OA Part II 2019
- Sunset Super, 2425 Irving StThe Last Black Man in San Francisco 2019
- Ocean Beach at Point LobosThe Diary of a Teenage Girl 2015
- Stanyan & BelgraveSummertime 2015
- 305 Hugo StreetSo I Married an Axe Murderer 1993
- Ocean Beach MotelSmile Again, Jenny Lee 2015
- New Taraval Cafu00e9Smile Again, Jenny Lee 2015
- 1814 32nd AveShit and Champagne 2020
- Surf TheaterPlay it Again, Sam 1972
- Ocean Beach @ BalboaI Am Michael 2015
- Andronico's, 1200 Irving StreetEtruscan Smile 2017
- Judah at 9th AveDEVS 2020
From the San Francisco Film Commission permit record. Every film shot in San Francisco.
Things to Do
All activities →Hidden Garden Steps
Walk up from Kirkham so the mosaic reads the right way round, and come at midday because the tiles need direct sun to do anything.
Ocean Beach
Park at the Beach Chalet lot off Fulton and walk in, because the old Great Highway between Lincoln and Sloat is a car free park now.
Black Bird Bookstore & Cafe
Independent Outer Sunset bookstore from Kathryn Grantham, with small presses and underrepresented authors front and center. Handwritten staff picks, weekly storytime, monthly open mic.
Tunnel Records
Husband-and-wife vinyl shop (Ben Wintroub, Andrea de Francisco) specializing in rare-groove soul, jazz, funk, and reggae since 2017.
Sutro Egyptian Collection
About 700 ancient Egyptian artifacts, including two intact mummies, collected by businessman Adolph Sutro in Thebes in the 1880s. Free at the Global Museum at SF State. Exhibits rotate, so check hours on the SFSU website.
Circus Center
A nonprofit circus school founded in 1984, originally a Pickle Family Circus project. Drop in trapeze and aerial silks classes, no experience required.
