Mission Mission

Eric Fischer brings us news that the merchants of Valencia Street are considering renaming Valencia to “South Market”.

(Wait, what’s that, Eric? I thought you said it was in the Chronicle? Ohhhh, in 1935, got it.)

Reader Katie spotted this notice on the side of the Victoria Theater yesterday:

Looks like someone took issue with the historic Alber’s Flapjack Flour mural on the side of the theater on 16th and Capp! Soon when you want to “look for the miner” you’ll have to “look” elsewhere.

I can only guess that some local tightwads just can’t stand the fact that fattening breakfast foods, such as flapjacks (which are basically super-thick and delicious pancakes) are being marketed to children, particularly those that go to the nearby Marshall Elementary School.

Sure, it may not be a part of a balanced breakfast, but have you seen a picture of a balanced breakfast? There’s like two cups of juice, milk, toast, and like ten other things in addition to your cereal. Nobody I know ate balanced breakfasts and we turned out fine.

What’s next? A war on bacon? Home fries? Scrambled eggs that contain yolks? All I know is that I will fight to the death for my right to eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch in a peanut butter sandwich.

Never mind that Albers hasn’t made flapjack flour for decades. They are focused more on corn-based products now. Lame.

[Thanks the reader Katie for the tip!]

Update: You are right to be outraged, but this is an April Fool’s Joke. Sadly for all of us, it was way too believable. Folks from SFist even compared the violation form to the source image on Bernalwood (sans official letterhead and staff contact) and still had to ask me! We’re that good. Sorry. Next year we’ll do something obvious like “Chevy’s opening in the Mission” or whatever.

I was at the National Museum of Old Newspapers with “Post” in the Title in Washington, D.C., the other day when I came across these beauties from the Bay Area.

Almost makes you wish newspapers were still around, doesn’t it?

Some other good ones, after the jump:

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Doc Pop is onto some next-level shit right here. He calls it “wiggle stereoscopy.” We call it SWAG.

He’s got a couple more, and details on the process, here.

The man, the mystery — Burrito Justice explains:

Want to see me blather on about La Lengua and Bernal in the 1860s-1880s?  Now’s your chance! The kind folks at the Bernal History Project have invited me to commandeer their monthly session for revolutionary historical purposes. (Fair warning: you know how my posts tend to ramble.)

Tonight, 7PM, Bernal Library, 500 Cortland Avenue. Maps, pictures, and whatever else I think of in the next few hours.

If I were you, I’d go just to see if he really dresses like his stencil. Read on.

You find cool stuff clicking through to our commenters’ web sites. Case in point: T.C.’s Don’t Go Changing SF, a blog that finds an old picture of a SF building and shows it right next to a current one from the same angle.

Remember Kay Jewelers on 21st and Mission?

No? Weren’t you around in 1953? What are you, 27 or something? Maybe you know it as this:

I’ve always wondered about the origin of those weird Romanesque pillars in that particular building. No answers here. I guess they really didn’t care for them in 1953 and covered them up with that sign.

But look, if you can afford the lease, that could be your windowsill! On the downside, you’ll probably have to hear Medjool patrons every night.

[via Don't Go Changing SF, check it out for more great historical photos]

The disco era sure was a different era.

Love and Kisses kind of sucked:

See part 2 and more after the jump:

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I stumbled upon this clip from a public access show in the ’90s called San Francisco Live.

If you can get past the spazzy 2 minute intro (which I linked past), it’s pretty interesting. Kilowatt used to be a destination spot for for Japanese noise bands, Czech Gypsy punk was a genre, and people used to buy records from record stores. Crazy, huh?

Handsome! What’d kids do after school in those days anway? No skateboards, no whippits, no high-fructose corn syrup. What’d you do?

[Image via Eric Fischer]

Part of reworking the site was combing through 4 years of Mission Mission posts. There has been some good stuff. Every 1st, I’m going to bring you this month’s posts of yesteryear!

2010

• SF Gate got its feelings hurt by Mission bartenders, cried to mommy about it
• It snowed last year, too! If you count white stuff falling from the sky as snow

2009

• Guy went to Safeway, watched asshole hit his girlfriend, kicked dude’s ass, and (probably) later slept with asshole’s girlfriend
• Magic Curry Cart got it’s start

2008

• Little Star Pizza tried to reason with taggers
• Two safety-conscious individuals got married in bubble wrap

2007

• We saw the earliest incarnations of viral sidewalk marketing