Safari users, here’s your link to our feature on a small real estate empire built on the Mission District’s jitney history. Fascinating to think of Mission Street with mini vans running up and down toward Market Street–cough, cough, smog galore, but also entrepreneurship and change. Argh! It makes me want to scream. The SF Weekly’s Joe Eskenazi catches us up on the Seurat inspired mural at 19th and Guerrero defaced last week. I watched the artist Daniel Doherty working on it last spring, a book on impressionism near all his other work tools. It is a beauty. I like this photo of it by Drain because of the people sitting in front of it, adding to the scene.
I’ll get a photo of the damaged mural on my morning walk. So, back from my walk and a detail of the damaged mural is below. It kind of makes you wonder: What did the he/she want them to be thinking/saying?
What are they thinking?
Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors meet today to discuss the sanctuary policy on juvenile’s and the SF Chronicle reports on District 9 Supervisor David Campos’s plans, but for some history on the change in policy read Mission Loc@l’s Migra Matters and see the time line.
The Supervisors will also discuss the Mexican Museum will urge Fort Mason to renew its lease, another Campos-lead proposal and one supported by nine of the supes. The museum got its start at 1850 Folsom and opened on November 20, 1975 or as Chiori Santiago described it in a 1990 piece in Latin American Art the original museum was “a few rented rooms in the Far West Laboratories building.”
It’s been at Fort Mason since 1982 and since the early 1990s, it’s moved ever so slowly to join the others at the Yerba Buena cultural hub where the SF MOMA, MoAD and the Contemporary Jewish Museum now stand.
Randy Shaw reviews a new exhibit, Agents of Change at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, SPUR, that includes the history of activisim in the Mission District.
The San Francisco Business Times reports that the Mission National Bank had lower earnings, but earnings and a healthy balance sheet.
And at least one new business in the Mission seemed to be thriving on Monday. A box of a store at 3170 21st St. where deals were to be had to fill your ipod full of the latest Mexican corridos and rock.
Finally, sadness at Mission Loc@l as the summer ends and one of our Lillet loving reporters, Stefania Rousselle, is off to New York where you will soon see her work in Time Magazine. Bon Courage! She will be missed…lots.
And the others, we are hanging onto as they must finish school. What good fortune for ML.
Hasta pronto, Viola.