Right now it is 58° with a high of 66° – the forecast for the next ten days is here.
Today’s block: Potrero to Utah, Alameda to 15th Streets.
These are odd blocks at the northeastern edge of the Mission – warehouse-like with some fancy furniture stores. The brick at this end can make you feel as if you are in the northeast or in London. I almost expect chimney stacks. It’s hard to imagine the tie in between this section of the Mission and the polar opposite on the southwestern edge of residential blocks. I’m happy to have photographed the edges, places where I rarely go and think about.
There are only a handful of blocks left, so take a look at the map and let us know if you want to claim one of them. We’re at info@missionlocal.com. It is a quiet experience and while it is almost over, I think all of us who have done it will retain it for longer than we might hold something for Instagram or Facebook. Maybe not, but maybe so.
You can see a map of all of the blocks here.
That’s an interesting block: Dick Millet’s studio is in the Potrero St building (featured in the closeup photo of cat art and reflections). He’s a local architect and connoisseur of building history who has lived on Potrero Hill for ±50 years, and he told me that the Maclac brick building is one of the oldest industrial buildings in the city… besides the front façade I love its side – the last photo in this post. Or maybe it’s *the* oldest in the city.