Tours of the Tales

Bellaire Tower, 1101 Green Street (southwest corner of Green and Leavenworth)

Brian called this the “Superman Building”.  It was visible from the north windows of the “pentshack” at 28 Barbary Lane – Brian’s apartment at the start of More Tales of the City.  Looking out the windows towards the Superman Building,  Brian participated in the nightly voyeuristic trysts with the “Lady on Eleven” (who turned out to be Mona’s mother).

The “pentshack” atop 1138½ Union – one block away – where Armistead Maupin lived while writing the start of the “Tales of the City” serial in The San Francisco Chronicle (see below in this tour) can be seen from the upper floors of the Superman Building.  

The phone number Brian gave to the Lady on Eleven (928-3117) was Armistead Maupin’s real phone number.  The night before that episode appeared in The Chronicle, Armistead Maupin picked up cute, 19-year-old Daniel Katz.  Early the next morning, while he entertained Daniel, Armistead’s phone began to ring.

Once [Daniel] realized what was going on, [he] got into it with a vengeance, answering the phone and hollering down the hall, ‘Hey Brain!  Get down here.  It’s another one for you…’  (Armistead Maupin, by Patrick Gale, p. 79)

Bellaire Tower

(aka:  "The Superman Building")