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HAMMETT'S POST STREET APARTMENT

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The fourth floor hallway.

The innocent-looking door opens onto a hallway that immediately turns 90 degrees to the left.

The hallway contains several photos pertaining to both Hammett and old San Francisco.  This view is from the combination bedroom/living room.  That's the door to the bathroom on the right edge of the picture.

The bathroom, complete with clawfoot tub.

The combination bedroom/living room, with the murphy bed in the down position.

The living room door as it looked when Bill started restoring it.  Note that both the wood and glass are buried under decades of old paint.

Here's how the door looks a lot of elbow grease later.  This is also a good view of how the murphy bed look when it is put away.

Bill's trenchcoat and fedora hang on the door to the miniscule kitchen.  Note the steam-heat radiator next to the bookcase.  When this picture was taken the window frame had been stripped and sanded, but not stained yet.

Resting in front of Bill's other bookcase is his antique rocking chair, duplicating the one in which Brigid O'Shaughnessy sat in The Maltese Falcon.

Extensive work was done on the original hardwood floor, as well as adding a new period-appropriate rug.

The view of Post Street from the window, largely unchanged since Hammett's day.

The desk, featuring a representation of Hammett's typewriter.  On the left edge (within easy reach of the murphy bed) is Sam Spade's alarm clock and favorite book.  Lurking behind the typewriter is the Black Bird itself.