Longtime Rainbow Grocery fans, curious neighbors, and folks just passing through all found themselves drawn to the San Francisco co-op’s 50th anniversary block party on Sunday Aug. 17 — a full-on street celebration that took over the stretch between Folsom Street and Trainor Street, and continued down Trainor between 13th and 14th streets.
“Oh wow, what’s going on there? Let’s stop by!” one passerby asked her group of friends as they crossed the street near Folsom.
More than 25 booths lined the area, offering everything from local food and handmade art to live music, games and community resources. There were performances by bands made up of Rainbow workers, a kids’ table with arts and crafts, a puzzle station, and even dog adoptions hosted by Rocket Dog Rescue.
The longest line of the day? The merch and prize tent.
Mission Local captured these moments from the celebration.
Sad I couldn’t make it! It looks like it was so fun. We need more grocery stores like Rainbow in SF.
P.S. Those are conga drums, not bongos in the 6th picture 😉
Rainbow scuttlebutt is that the supervisor paid them a visit and told Rainbow that defending immigrants from ICE was her top priority. Rainbow worker/owners, most of whom had been around the block before, were not amused.
Fielder has to be an op, an elected officials who will readily and repeatedly throw their constituencies under the bus in favor of small minorities deemed more worthy of political consideration, usually with city money for nonprofits involved.
Nevermind that the reason why Trump is able crack down on immigrants is because Democrats gave immigrants who don’t vote more face them than Dems gave an increasingly precarious electorate that votes because Dems purported that immigrants were “more vulnerable” which makes everyone else “privileged.”
In the face of rising populism, deferring consideration of the interests of the majority of constituents in favor laying guilt trips on why everyone is privileged compared to “the most vulnerable” is a prescription for more right wing populism.
Yay! So glad to get to see pictures since it didn’t work out for me to make it.
Great picture of Gordon!
Rainbow used to be right on Mission Street where pedestrians could easily get to it but they had to move to where they could accommodate cars.
Way to relitigate the past – Rainbow moved in 1996!