[via Big Old Goofy World]
Now please enjoy this long list of “history”-themed posts about the Mission and SF…
Previously:
- The 1985 James Bond movie about a supervillain trying to destroy Silicon Valley
- The legend of jockey Nate Hubbard and racehorse Sweetwater Oak at Golden Gate Fields, 1989
- Valencia Street, 1999
- The word 'Mission' in a cool old typeface from 1925
- 24th Street BART, 1970
- This article from 15 years ago mirrors yesterday's news about condo plans at 19th and Bryant
- Dolores Park, 1935
- Mission and 24th St, 1951
- Vintage photo of the Flax building (corner of Market and Valencia), 1977
- Newly unearthed super-8 film footage by legendary SF band Jawbreaker shows us around the Mission in 1992, makes me emotional
- Watch Huey Lewis and the News sing the national anthem before a Giants-Cardinals NLCS game at Candlestick Park in 1987
- View of the Golden Gate Bridge and a very '50s-looking San Francisco in 1956
- The Mission, as depicted on a 1927 cartoon map of SF
- I can't stop looking at this 1971 panorama from the top of the Bay Bridge
- Young lovers in Dolores Park, May 1949
- Bernal Heights Hill, totally nude, 1953
- Robin Williams looking cooool, in San Francisco, 1987
- A sanitized, corporate San Francisco, as predicted by David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in 1996
- Mission 1906
- Lamborghinis and Ferraris zooming down 24th evoke 1985 in the Mission
- Halloween-themed die-cut Muni Fast Pass from October 1977
- Flashback, 1994: Invitation to the grand opening of the all-new Nap's II
- Roxie Theater, 1975