As Laurie delivered an envelope to the old Myers"" house, being sold by her father and Strode Realty, Tommy warned: "That""s the devil""s house."Mac learned dentistry, after a fashion, through assisting the charlatan...and, years later, on Polk Street in San Francisco, "Doc" McTeague was established." A vertical barn door camera effect opens on the corner of the Polk Street district in San Francisco - [it is at the corner of Polk and California Streets].This was confirmed when they found a hidden envelope in her kitchen drawer with a class picture identifying them ("We""re all here, Kris, Jesse, Dean.Armand""s car broke down last night a million miles from nowhere and we had o stay at the nastiest little inn you ever saw.