It is 8:19 a.m. but these photos were taken earlier. It is now 57˚ and expected to rise to 65˚ with a slight chance of more rain this morning. Details for the next ten days here.
Today’s Block: Mission to the curve of Capp Street, 26th to Cesar Chavez.
After writing this week about the Mission’s eastern border, I was feeling expansionist, Manifest Destiny-like and felt like venturing east of Potrero, but time is short on Saturday mornings so I walked instead to the southern border and explored Capp Street’s curve. It used to be Serpentine Avenue and Burrito Justice as well as Bernalwood have written about its demise.
On my way over, I swear I saw a seagull swooping north and low – maybe five feet off the ground – on Valencia Street. But could that gull have been that low?
And then, before I crossed Mission street, a police car pulled up, parked and two officers went into Chavita’s. Ah, I thought, they are taking an early morning robbery report but Officer Salvador said the only break-in was the two of them “breaking into some burritos.”
The curve of Capp was lovely.
With the light good early on, so much the better to sign on to document your block. Don’t wait! Let us know what day and block you would like at info@missionlocal.com.
You can see a map of all of the blocks here. The blocks in grey are being saved for others who have signed up. Let us save a block for you as well.
I suspect that the ads painted on the 26th street wall and the wall above the taxi lot of the building on the corner of 26th and Mission are actually illegal billboards in violation of the 2002 Prop. G.