Deal of the year R Image Market!
What? I’m not even joking. If you think this is funny then go back to Sonoma, snob.
[via vicwomg, me me me]
DocPop snapped this stunner of a shot this morning. Following the path of that ‘bow, I can surmise that the pot of gold is at Thieves Tavern. You heard it here first… just give us a cut, okay? If there’s no gold, at least you can cash in on that $5 Tall PBR + Jameson earlybird special, which is pretty much the same thing.
Filmmaker Justin Gallagher’s 2011 Demo Reel features some pretty shots of the Mission, tilt-shifting, epic scoring, and some nice shots of TCB Couriers on bikes that may or may not be “fixies”. Hire him, already.
Just read over on the Bay Bridged that Moon Duo is doing an in-store at Aquarius tonight at 6 PM.
You can hear one of their new songs over at the Bay Bridged, check it out.
If you can’t make the in-store, they’re playing Bottom of the Hill tonight with Royal Baths and Lilac, who were pretty rad when I heard them for the first time at this show a couple weeks ago…
[Photo via Moon Duo's MySpace]
Blood, Bath, & Beyond Day is a “metal generator show” at Potrero del Sol this afternoon from noon to 5:30. Facebook says there’s a free bag of Cheetos for the first 30 people to show up, but it’s BYO soda-pop.
Look at how beautiful it is outside! You know you could use a quick break from Dolores.
[Thanks, Lorenzo!]
This alley pigeon is sitting between bird spikes and canoodling with a plastic owl. In the war on pigeons, we are losing.
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.)
“Efforts over many years to make Valencia a first-class commercial street having failed, they believe by adopting the name of South Market the desired object can be attained.”
Needless to say, the California Pioneers were unamused.
I am sure the merchants of 1935 would look upon the oasis that is Valencia St with abject horror. Then again, the shots we have of pre-1930 Valencia St certainly seem that they could have been trying harder.
1929 , looking south down Valencia towards 24th. image via SFPL
Lest we be too hard on our great-grandparents, do note their first effort at parklets above — check out the sandbags on the right of the tracks in this shot. (Bonus points to whomever correctly guesses what they are.)
Another item captured by Eric Fischer (half-man, half-scanner) is “the Folsom-Dolores Diagonal”, a 1928 plan to convert the Southern Pacific Railway right of way into a boulevard. Eric’s original scan is on his Flickr page, but I have taken the liberty of highlighting and de-diagonalizing it for our viewing pleasure.
The Folsom-Dolores Diagonal is certainly no Mission Freeway — oh, 1928 city planners, why did not not dare to dream!
Remember this was just as they were widening the Bernal Cut (today’s San Jose exit from 280) so they were considering increased traffic flow into the city. Remember also there was no 101 / Bayshore Freeway yet — just the Bayshore *Highway*, aka today’s Bayshore Boulevard, which was also under construction in 1928.
I’ve highlighted in yellow one mysterious notation on our diagonal map:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but does that say “Dolores Street Tunnel?” There’s some pretty serious grade between 27th and 26th on Dolores (there actually was a Dolores street bridge for the old railroad) so topolographically it makes sense. But to a tunnel where? The secret bathrooms at Dolores Park? I vaguely remember 1920s transit plans for subway emerging at 26th and Dolores but I will be damned if I can find it now.
UPDATE: Eric found it – it was in the 1937 SF transit plan where a subway would run underneath the SPRR RoW.
Other detail on Eric’s map includes our utterly whacked Mission / Dolores / San Jose / Randall intersection (the very tip of La Lengua) – it seems to have been implemented then:
If you need that many arrows, you have failed, sirs. Also, San Jose Ave was entertainingly narrow.
Take a look at this 1927 SFPL shot looking south down San Jose Ave, across 30th. It is completely unrecognizable compared to today. It seriously took me an hour to figure out it – even with my before/after shot it still makes my head hurt.
The buildings on the right (west) were all torn down when they widened San Jose and Guerrero in the 1950s. Google Earth Overlay below (click to zoom). Yellow estimates field of view for the 1927 photo.
The green overlay was the saloon you see on the right hand side of the old picture (note the fancy rounded turret window thing). Blue were the apartments across 30th on the right. All those are long gone.
The red overlay is the Carmel (a boarding house if I’m not mistaken). I really don’t know if it’s the same structure — it’s a strange shaped lot, so you kind of have to make a building in that shape. Windows seem to be in different locations too, so I’m skeptical.
Such is the actual and retrofuture Mission and La Lengua in the 1920s and 30s.
You have to admit that you’ve always wanted to try this yourself. MM reader Alexander K. happened upon this scene outside of Mission Creek Cafe, but noted that unfortunately the escape did not go as successfully as planned, as you can see after the jump . . .
First, our buddy MC found a bigass TV by the side of the road and asked for some help deciding what to do about it. Then, based in part on advice from Mission Mission readers, he turned it over to SFPD, and then had to deal with a months-long runaround over a TV he didn’t even particularly want. As of today, the TV is his, but he still needs some help. Here’s the deal:
After the requisite 120 days, no one had claimed the TV, so by all rules, I had a right to re-claim my found 42″ Plasma TV — the only question was: would the SFPD Property Room ‘lose’ it?
The short answer: no. So, kudos to them for keeping it honest.
As I waited to be called up a rough looking dude with neck tattoos was before me. He asked for, and received back, his $3,100 from a previous police seizure.
When the judge called me case, he chuckled and, like the rest of everyone who hears the story, said “So you found this on 24th and Capp? Really?” After the SFPD Attorney, Ronnie, said that she was prepared to release it back to me, the judge declared, “Congratulations — you are now the proud owner of a 42″ Plasma TV,” with a smile.
In minutes, I had the release order and was told to head to the Property Room in the basement. As I got there, it reeked of pot; they were blasting Ezay E, followed by the Humpty Dance. It was a pretty great site. After I handed over the order, and the cop behind the counter again laughed about the situation, he came back after 30 minutes with the TV. At this point, another dude trying to get back about 4 guns, and the guy with the money were intrigued, so I told them the story.
I ended with my plan to donate to an old folks home or something, and the rough guy said, “Donate to me!” to which I quickly replied with “Donate? You just got $3,000 bucks!” Which, then, he offered to buy the TV on the spot right there. I didn’t want to wait around to see how long it would take him to get cash back form the cops, so I carried the thing down the steps of Hall of Justice and flagged a SUV Taxi and threw it in along with my bike and brought it to my office. Now, it’s sitting on my coworkers desk while I figure out what to do with it.
So, the question is: what awesome organization near 24th & Capp would benefit from this large TV? I don’t really like the idea of kids watching TV, but maybe an old folks home? A waiting room for a free health clinic? Day Labor Center? Recommendations welcome!
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