Mission Mission

In case you missed it, Saturday night was certainly an exciting and interesting scene in the Mission. After El Salvador upset Mexico in a World Cup qualifier, the district lost its collective shit. The streets were full of cars speeding up and down Mission St. flying flags and honking their horns as small crowds, waving flags and cheering, gathered on street corners. Naturally, as the night progressed, the neighborhood turned into a public toilet for vomiting and urinating.

From afar, this looked like an AIPAC rally.

Just in case you didn’t know, this Sunday is Sunday Streets in the Mission.  From 10am until 2pm, a chunk of 24th and Valencia will be closed to motorized traffic so people can be good neighbors n’ stuff.  Now you can pedal your fixie with reckless abandon into moms with baby strollers from “da Noe” instead of  2-dollar Toyota’s from the 1980′s with 600-dollar rims.

There is a long list of events I’m not going to bother summarizing.  However, you can check out Mission Loc@l’s movie slideshow with audio about the events.

Photo by everyday photos.

Designs are in! I can’t wait for them to actually build it so they can then render it a lot like this for the next Tony Hawk game. Please tell me you’ll be able to enter Zeitgeist and shred the picnic tables.

DLX has tons more images here. Folks sound happy about it in the comments: “this is going to be the dopest thing to hit the city since koston at hubba.”

Previously:

Million Dollar Skate Park

Tight pants required, apparently? GGX reports:

Volleybonk is newest sports craze in Dolores Park

Photo by wrenee.

Previously:

Bike Polo

Nobody captions a photo better than Max at 4Q Conditioning.

He estimates this shot of Neil Blender at one of the Mission Street BART stations dates all the way back to 1987. Link.

BART Swing is a reality! Photo by neiltron, from the Flickr pool BART Swings 2009.

Thanks, Rick!

Previously:

BART Swing (in Theory)

What is butt boarding?

[via Carlos Reyes]

SF Gate reports that the city is “close to completing designs” for the skate park going in under the freeway near Duboce, and that the thing will cost $1 million. Also of note: Plans also include a basketball court and a dog park.

Plan for skate park in Mission rolling forward

Ping Pong Gallery‘s Ping Pong Happy Hour IS totally rad. It only happens about once a quarter, so I spend a fair amount of my life looking forward to it. Free Trumer Pils, lots of ping pong.

That said, it’s a bummer when nobody can beat me, so bring your skillz.

For more on PPG and PPHH, read my profanity-filled Q&A with gallery co-owner Joey.