It’s unclear why Louis Bakin’s name is embedded in the sidewalk. But in trying to find out, I found this other flickr page of great images, cement mix up.
Solve the Bakin mystery and you have a free Mission Loc@l t-shirt.
I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.
As founder and an editor at ML, I've been trying to figure out how to make my interest in local news sustainable. If Mission Local is a model, the answer might be that you - the readers - reward steady and smart content. As a thank you for that support we work every day to make our content even better.
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Since this story doesn’t have a punchline, I will add this I found when, after eating at Mixt, I wondered the same thing…. https://x.com/mgrooves/status/312302033250172928