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Good Morning Mission, Charming to the End

by Lydia Chávez June 3, 2015, 7:21 amJune 22, 2025, 6:06 pm

The back end of the charming school. Photo by Lydia Chávez

It is 53˚ and expected to rise to a partly cloudy 63˚ – oh, will we ever have beautiful sunny days again? It gets warmer, but clouds remain. Details for the next ten days are here.

This morning’s block: 25th to Cesar Chavez and the freeway mess, Potrero to the Utah inlet and then on to San Bruno that dead ends at the freeway mess.

A huge industrial building on the corner of 25th and Potrero dominates the northern end of the block and Potrero del Sol park dominates the southern end of the block, but at the very end, there is this charming Meadows Livingstone School, which we must look into. In between – an extensive garden and Bryant School.

Note: These photos were taken Sunday, May 31st between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m.

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The walk starts here. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Heading up Potrero toward Cesar Chavez, the building has this enormous and lovely pipe. Photo by Lydia Chávez

The Potrero entrance to the park. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Road work on Potrero. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Not on his way to work. Photo by Lydia Chávez

The back end of the park from Potrero. Photo by Lydia Chávez

The garden is extensive and well maintained. Beautiful. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Here is this charming school - the last outpost on Potrero before the road curves around to the exchanges. Photo by Lydia Chávez — Here is this charming school – the last outpost on Potrero before the road curves around to the exchanges. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Yep. Photo by Lydia Chávez

I think I might try to follow it around. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Maybe not. So I turn around and head back to the corner of Potrero and 25th to walk along 25th toward Utah. Photo by Lydia Chávez

On 25th. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Dog Walker. Photo by Lydia Chávez

The Utah entrance of the park.

Photo by Lydia Chávez

On 25th Street. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Time stamp. Photo by Lydia Chávez

The corner of 25th and San Bruno. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Looking south on San Bruno. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Order. Photo by Lydia Chávez

The back end of the charming school. Photo by Lydia Chávez — Charming to the end – the back end of the Meadows Livingston School. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Lydia ChávezFounder/Editor

lydia.chavez@missionlocal.com

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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