From the California State Park website:
"In Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 movie classic Vertigo,a distraught Kim Novak breathlessly describes a town that has been haunting her dreams: "It was a village square and a green with trees and an old white-washed Spanish church with a cloister...across the green there was a big gray wooden house with a porch and shutters...and next to it a livery stable with old carriages lined up inside..."
Jimmy Stewart breaks in, excited, "...and an old wooden hotel from the old California days, and a saloon, dark, low ceilings with hanging oil lamps. It's no dream. You've been there...and it's been preserved exactly as it was 100 years ago as a museum."
People come to San Juan Bautista from all over the world looking for this scene.
It's still there."
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Trouble is right now you can't enter the hotel or the saloon or the big gray wooden house or the livery stable. They are part of the California State Park system and are shutdown because of budget cuts. You can still go inside the mission, but you can only peek through a crack in the door of the livery stable where Stewart and Novak had their famous scene.
I was there yesterday and sorely disappointed to find the shutters shuttered. The state park website says nothing about the place being shutdown. So those international film buffs who make the drive down from San Francisco will be able to complain just like the cliched American tourist who can't believe how inefficiently the rest of the world is run.
http://www.viamagazine.com/weekenders/sanjuan97.asp
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=563