It was beloved as Sadie’s Flying Elephant, it was beloved as Mission Hill Saloon, and no doubt it’ll be beloved yet again as the Unresolved Love Life of Evelyn Lee, which is what the bar at the base of the hill at the corner of Potrero Avenue and Mariposa is gonna be, starting in a couple weeks.
Jay and Oliver from Dear Mom and their pal Michael from Thieves finalized the deal in the last couple days, and Jay called today to tell us the good news. The plan is this: Mission Hill Saloon will have a big closing party this coming Sunday night, they’ll shut down for a couple weeks to paint and clean and improve the bathrooms, and the new place will open the second week of March. And they’re gonna do “some fun stuff with food” possibly involving their pals from Wise Sons.
What’s up with the name? Jay and Oliver do not like boring bar names, and they have a good friend named Evelyn whose love life seemed to warrant commemoration.
I love Mission Hill Saloon, but I can’t wait!
Yay nicer bathrooms!
As long as they leave the riff raff at Dear Mom’s, it’s all good in the hood. Let Dear Mom cater to the legion of 20 somethings, and lets keep Poterero and Mariposa in the hands of those a bit wiser, miser, and jaded.
So, what are we all ACTUALLY going to call this bar? Because there is not a snowball’s chance I’m ever going to ask someone to meet me at “The Unresolved Love Life of Evelyn Lee”.
Unresolved.
Let’s meet up at the Ullel.
Here here! “Uhll – Elle”.
“The Lee”
E-LEE
That place will always be referred as ‘Sadies’
Lee’s, of course.
That has to be one of the most stupid names for a business I have ever heard. Lets hope the hipsters will be to lazy to climb the massive hill.
It’s a pretty small hill actually.
I know Allan, hipsters are afraid to climb any hill, unless it’s in DP. I will be there Sunday for the final, final.
See you there, bro.
What time do you think you might be there?
6:66
Stop saying “hipsters”.
The problem is that it is right at the BOTTOM of the massive hill.
A hill I have to walk up every night jerk!
define “have to”
i fucking shit you not, on more than one occasion i’ve taken a cab up. mind you, it was .. after last call and i was just cab-pooling with the bartender.
but.. gotta get home somehow, and i might as well stop off for a quickie shot before taking that fkn hill.
gonna have to start carrying a fernet flask while they are closed for repairs.
…And a tazer once they are open again?
Nice drinking with you yesterday.
slainte!
I’ll be there on Sunday. Hijinx shall ensue.
I will be too lazy to climb the hill
As long as Jay’s waffles are there, I’ll be there!
dear mom’s 2 blocks from home, and this place is 2 blocks from work…. maybe the universe is trying to tell me something.
Who is surprised that Thieves are stealing all of our bars. DUH.
Awesome Ariel.
It’d be called Evelyn Lee’s. Duh.
This has to be a joke, right? And where the fuck are they gonna make food? They don’t even have a license for that.
All I want to know is whether they’ll still have BAGS!
Bags has been gone for a while now
SAD
More booze for our livers, yay.
1) I’m sick of obnoxiously cutesy business names.
2) This is on the Potrero Hill side of Potrero and therefore not in The Mission.
Let a blog about the Potrero Hill Neighborhood cover this story
I say everything west of the freeway is the Mission. More importantly, the Mission is more than a arbitrary boundary — the Mission is a state of mind, man. But most importantly, go fuck yourself.
The Mission is the area between Delores, Potrero, Duboce, and Cesar Chavez. This is a fact. The Mission is a neighborhood with an absolutely set boundaries.
That said fuck nuts, just because you live in The Mission doesn’t mean you are tough. Before you go around telling people to fuck themselves online you might consider how easy you would be to find. I have a feeling you are one of those internet tough guys that crys when confronted on the street; let’s find out.
I cry all the time, never said I didn’t.
This has the makings of a climactic showdown.
Nothing is tougher than an anonymous coward posting on a blog.
If this were 1953 you might have a point. But it’s not. And you don’t.
Mission = State of Mind + Burritos.
I’m with Allan on this.
+1 on the GFY.
I thought Allan would fight me first. wtf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ytUgdIYiw
Hi – relatively new resident (2 years) to Utah Street, so right between the freeway and Potrero, up the hill from the Saloon. I guarantee you this is Potrero Hill. The old residents here say so, the new residents say so, and Potrero Hill says so (just check with any of the neighborhood groups). In fact, when a proposed supervisorial district map was drawn that cut this area off into D9 (the Mission) away from D10 (Potrero Hill & Bayview), everybody threw a collective fit and the change was remedied in subsequent maps.
So, while neighborhood wars are often complicated affairs, the case that this is in Potrero Hill, right on the dividing line, is rather compelling.
Hey man, glad to have you in the neighborhood! Welcome to the Mission!
although this is not a strict rule, the general consensus among the born and bred is that pot hill is east of the 101. so anything all the way up to san bruno counts as the mission.
Who is Evelyn Lee?
Posting Evelyn’s bio is irresponsible. This should be removed.
In regards to this bar being tainted by the neuvo-Missionites, well who cares? I lived next to Sadie’s some 14 years ago and for those that do not remember it was a sh*t hole and so is the Mission Saloon. Change is inevitable. I have never understood the omnipresent almost instantaneous provincial attitudes adopted by transplants (which almost everyone here is). Get over it. It is a bar owned by locals following their dreams. If you want to bitch direct your energies towards the Chase Bank that is quietly surfacing at 299 Valencia – also the site of new freeway architecture luxury condos.
And lastly VIVA EVELYN LEE. Love that lady.
Uhhh.. If your name is going to be attached to a fucking bar, and you have your bio on a publicly accessible website, then there is nothing “irresponsible” about posting a link to that bio.
I mean, it’s all of five notches down in a google for “Evelyn Lee San Francisco”, hosted on a relatively prominent local blog, for god’s sake.
hahaha, god the comments on here are always so lame. why do you care so much?
“she’s a witch! burn her!”
What the hell are you talking about?
Evelyn Lee was the madam of a brothel on 3rd street (close to where the ballpark is now). She murdered her first two husbands, lost the third to consumption and the fourth ran off with a legless irish prostitute named Connie Mack. She died of a laudanum overdose in 1871 at the age of 42.
+1
+1
Sorry–not the history I learned about her. Evelyn Lee was a resident of a single room in a building next door to the aforementioned brothel. Her building and her room were often mistaken for one of the prostitute’s rooms. Evelyn kept having to say no, until she finally gave in, realizing that she could accumulate a fortune without paying the madam.
She literally and figuratively (OK SNORG Tees?)hid her considerable earnings under her mattress. Within about 4 years, she had saved enough to buy the Cornichon Mansion at 21st and Harrison (later bulldozed to make way for a tea garden). Many suitors were enamored with her, but she finally settled on a man named Connie Mack, of baseball fame. Mr. Mack later left her to manage and own the Philadelphia Athletics. She was heart-broken.
The best part of this is that I actually know Evelyn Lee.
…and I know you.
all you people are fucking nuts.
51 replies to a banal post crazy fools.
This sucks.
What the fuck, have these bar owner kooks just discovered Optic Nerve or something? Terrible, terrible, terrible name for a bar. It’s so unbelievably twee that it will no doubt attract the hordes of spineless 20 something transplants that they’ll need to stay afloat. I feel embarrassed for anyone that sets foot in the place.
It’s a stupid name, but who does or does not go to a bar based on its name and not its location/atmosphere/etc.?
Who the fuck dreams of having a home featured on design blogs? And people say the Mission isn’t a yuppie paradise. (Sorry, I mean Potrero Hill)
I can’t imagine having enough money to just throw it at a bar with such a fucking ridiculous name.
Maybe they don’t, exactly, have the money. Try living some time, you might like it.
Blam! Real talk.
Yeah dude, SBA loans aren’t that hard to come by. Having the connects to get an alcohol permit is.
Another bar gets a pretentious makeover and a pretentious name.
dear neighborhood territorialists,
remember when that whole area was called the “multimedia gultch?”
it was nearly beginning to catch, like nopa, but then that little dot come bust happened…
and that’s probably when all you mission vs. potrero quibblers started moving into the area, trying to claim it as your own, and calling it by whatever name makes you feel cooler.
who the fuck really cares? it’s missionish. also potreroish. and yes, it’s all changed quite a bit. and say what you will about hipsters and gentrification, all I know is that having more follks around makes that blighted strip of street a hell of a lot safer.
They used to call it, “North East Mission Industrial Zone” or NEMIZ for short.
i feel bad for the evelyn lee that currently resides in SF. poor woman.
It was called Mission Hill Saloon – which makes it ok to be considered the Mission. It was a cool dive bar, too bad it’s gonna be turned into a hipster dufus spot. RIP MHS.
The most fun part of reading these comments are the ones that go on about the new provincials. The new provincials’ are fun too.
The name is so cloying my tongue turned inside out.
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