Silent slides.

It is 7:36 a.m., 60° and headed to 71°. Details for the next ten days are here.

Today we are in the central Mission and this is written from Joey and Pat’s Bakery & Cafe, where Pat mans the register and Joey is pulling fresh pastry out of the oven. It smells wonderful. The blueberry cheese danish is – as my sister-in-law would say – delish.

I thought today I would walk a more central Mission between 21st and 20th, Shotwell and Folsom. If you would like to help document the neighborhood in the morning, get in touch with me at Lydia.Chavez@missionlocal.com or missionlocal@gmail.com.  I’m trying to document a different block each morning between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m.

Jose Coronado park rounds out the southern corners of this block and Shotwell’s and Schmidt’s finish off the northern corners. There is some old history – By George’s dog grooming that is now Green Heart Foods at 3321 20th St.

There is also some history in the making – Patricia Kerman’s apartment above Schmidt’s.  Kerman and her roommate recently won in court on an Ellis Act Eviction. 

Also, does anyone remember when Schmidt’s first opened in 2009 and they were open for lunch and had the most wonderful salads?

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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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