This is the third I have seen abandoned on the street – all in the last month or so.
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.
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A college friend and working mother living in a city told me that her kindergarten son was scored as not very bright when he could not identify pictures of an iron, ironing board, or squirrel. He had never seen those things!
Ironing boards make excellent runoff tables for portable shopwork. Good foldup work tables for tools & parts. My eye 👀 out for them as I drive around.
That’s funny. Well, the Mission has had a surplus lately
Activism is on hold, elections are over?
Maybe people are clearing out living space since they’re spending more time inside and ironing boards take up storage space and aren’t used much any more. Who irons anything besides, perhaps, men’s shirts? That’s my guess.
You don’t iron sweat pants?