Mission Mission

As Patti Dillion explains to the Bernal Heights History Project:

This is a photo of the interior of Dolan’s Bar which was at 3311 Mission St from about 1897 to 1919.  The Dolan Bros were:

• William T
• John E – her great grandfather and member of the SFPD
• Michael H – also of the SFPD
• Lawrence J – plumber by trade and elected to the CA State Assembly & Sheriff of San Francisco, appointed Sealer of Weights and Measures (second from the left in the photo)

Says Patti: “I’m wondering if someone has a photo of the exterior of the building from about the same time. I would love to see what it looked like back then.”

Can anyone help her out?

2 Responses to “Bars on Mission Street at the turn of last century harbored even more mustaches than bars of today”

1. Fact Checker says:

   January 7, 2014 at 11:05 am

   There has been another century turn since then…
2. dumb old leftist says:

   January 7, 2014 at 4:32 pm

   quick, rich people, and their aides, say “See this use to be an Irish neighborhood, things just ‘change’.”
   uh huh.
   owner of Haus coffee on 24th gave that gem to an interviewer.
   as did about one hundred comments on this blog. “we don’t need to know history unless it fits our mystery”.