Owners defend changes to Vertigo house

Owners defend changes to Vertigo house - SFGate:

Another Vertigo icon significantly changed--

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  A 6-foot concrete wall has been built across the front of the "Vertigo" house on Lombard Street.

  Photo: Alejandra Bayardo, The Chronicle / SF

It's not easy living in an iconic piece of San Francisco film history.

Just ask Hanna Suleiman and his wife, Sandy, who, after 23 years, have had their fill of being a tourist attraction and are putting up a wall in front of the Lombard Street house where Jimmy Stewart's character lived in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller, "Vertigo."

To hear the Suleimans tell it, they've put up with tourists ringing their door bell, strangers picnicking on their fence and others tossing garbage into their yard.

If that weren't enough, they now have the constant racket of kids playing at the reopened Yick Wo Elementary School across the street.

"The noise starts at 8:30 in the morning and goes at least until 5:30 nonstop," Hanna Suleiman said. "We can't even open our windows or door, or watch TV."

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