Mission Mission

A rainy day message from Lost Weekend Video:

Well the rain has arrived. It’s the perfect time to come down to Lost Weekend and catch up on some of the Oscar movies that have come out already. These Best Picture nominees are already here: ‘Inception’, ‘The Kids Are Alright’, ‘The Social Network’, ‘Toy Story 3′ & ‘Winter’s Bone’. Movies nominated in other categories that we’ve got are: ‘The Town’, ‘Animal Kingdom’, ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘I Am Love’, ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’, ‘Restrepo’, and ‘Dogtooth’. Good stuff.

Good stuff indeed. If you haven’t seen Toy Story 3, you are missing out! And the Banksy movie is a hoot too! Read on for a complete list of new releases. [Screenshot courtesy of Disney/Pixar]

Previously:

Let’s Not Lose Lost Weekend Video

The Death of Video Stores in the Mission

Neutral Unpretentious Places (Like Lost Weekend)

Even though it’s only been around for about a year, from the looks of things, this laundromat bench has been through hell and back.  You might remember it from way back when we discussed the best laundromats in the Mission, but by looking back in time it’s quite apparent that the bench has seen better days.

Nonetheless, its owners refuse to let it die.  Whereas others might view the continual breakage as a lack of structural integrity and trash this one for another candidate from Community Thrift, this laundromat has stuck by its classy patio bench and infused its frame will all manner of quick-fix bench hacks to extend its life.  Cleverly or not, the repair attempts have left this seat looking rather rad:

Form meets function.  Grand.

Flickr user mexist managed to capture the last of Bombay Ice Creamery’s refrigerators being carted out onto the street:

Bombay Ice Creamery had to shut its doors due to a couple health violations, but I suspect there are other interests involved since they had such prime real estate. We’ll miss that delicious Kulfi.

So long, Bombay.

Previously:

Puerto Allegre Expanding Into Bombay?

Bombay Ice Creamery: Gone For Good?

In a dumpster.

Lost Weekend Video continues their assault on poor, defenseless little old Netflix. Who will come out the winner? All I know is that Netflix never offered a “Klaus Kinski tries to chop off Werner Herzog’s head with a machete” T-shirt, and that’s not helping them.

[via Tenderloin Geographic Society]

Previously:

Internet Killed the Video Store

The former location of Delano’s, which generates a lot of discussion here for some reason, may soon be replaced by a Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market. “Fresh & Easy”? That sounds like the kind of girl you’d want to date. If you are a breakdancer. And it’s the 80′s.

From Curbed:

A little bird just told us that grocery chain Fresh & Easy is this close to signing a 20-year lease for the recently shuttered Delano’s space on South Van Ness in the Mission.

Get the scoop at Curbed SF.

[image via Curbed, thanks Sally!]

Previously:

Delano’s Going

Going

Gone

I don’t think I like this: the space previously occupied by Papa Potrero’s Pizza on 24th and Potrero will soon be “Wok and Go”.

It’s not that I have a problem with Chinese food or puns. In fact, if I ever open a Vietnamese restaurant I plan on calling it “Phở- geddabout it!” or “Banh Mi? Banh YOU!” (Just to be clear, it will also have a mob theme. Servers will wear track suits and slicked-back hair.)

It’s just that most puns are based on an existing phrase or premise. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “Walk and Go”. A simple Google search confirms this. May I suggest, “Go for a Wok”? “All Wok and No Play”? Can’t go “Wong” with those.

Woah. So that’s what it sounds like when an entire neighborhood groans simultaneously.

[via annagaz]

Previously:

Mission Pizza Parlor Actually Closes

Painting a new sign.

This place was something that I can’t remember. Then it was a sandwich/bakery place. Then seemingly the same thing but with a Hawaiian deli angle. Then a vegetable market. And now . . . another vegetable market?

First Coda, now SoCha.

SoCha Cafe on Mission and Valencia is switching ownership and starting Jan 1st will not continue to host free nightly live music. The spot was owned by the same guy who owns Revolution Cafe, and for a long time they shared calendars and performers. I don’t blame them, the music part never quite took off and it always seemed like more of a sleepy study cafe rather than a live music venue. Most people didn’t even seem aware that this place even had live music.

If you haven’t been to a show there, tonight Classical Revolution is having their last weekly residency there. They have been holding down the gig for about 3 years. It’s an open classical chamber music jam. That’s right, classical music folks “jam” too!

The Tens has the scoop.

500 Club has apparently done right by its customers. Anyplace else in the neighborhood currently in dire need of an ASAP removal job?