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Not pleased with the joint achey thing. More or less constantly on pain relievers right now.

Tersa's TiVo watched Vertigo for me, and I'm watching it for the first time since I moved here. It's also the first time I've noticed what a large role the city plays in the film. Been browsing a few websites that talk about Vertigo-oriented tours of San Francisco, including the Presidio, Portals of the Past, Mission Dolores, Ernie's and Fort Point. If I were feeling more energetic I'd provide links to websites involving some of these. But you're a big boy/girl now and if you're curious you can look yourself. (Try a search at Google with the terms 'Vertigo location Hitchcock'.)

A quote cut from the original script:
You know what San Francisco does to people who have never seen it before. All of it happened to Madeleine, but with such an intensity as to be almost frightening. She was like a child come home. Everything about the city excited her; she had to walk all the hills, explore the edge of the ocean, see all the old houses and wander the old streets; and when she came upon something unchanged, something that was as it had been, her delight was so strong, so fiercely possessive! These things were hers. And yet, she had never been here before. She had been born and raised in the East.