Historic Home Addition Divides Experts and Neighbors
The city Planning Commission faces a tricky question: Can history endure progress?
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Local History
Forgotten 18th-Century Mural
Efforts to save an 18th-century mural fade as public interest grows dimmer.
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Mission Home City’s Oldest?
The house was built when the Mission was mostly marshland, a time before the neighborhood was a neighborhood, when pioneers came west chasing the original California dream. En Español
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Mission History: More Than Buildings
It’s also spacing, landscape, fruit trees, residents tell preservation commission.
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South Mission Historic Homes Pegged for Protection
Shotwell between 20th Street and Cesar Chavez “kind of captures the whole early 19th-century history in one long linear corridor.”
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Mission Dolores: Ours Once Again
At least as far as the Planning Department is concerned.
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15 Ways of Looking at the Levi’s Workshop on Valencia
Levi’s comes to the Misson to make things, eight years after its last factory here closed.
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VIDEO: Lowriding Returns!
The Mission’s finest. En Español
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My Mission: Jesse Drew
It was a time when the city distributed official maps to tourists, and the Mission wasn’t on them.
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An Archive of Memory
Three Lost Murals from the 1980s.
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Mission Memories
Carlos Santana, Paco’s Tacos and the UFW
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Mission Queer History. En Español
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When Revolution Lived
At the Revolution Cafe
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Biking the Mission’s Waterways
Click here for a pdf of the map.
“You’ve got to understand, these creeks smelled bad,” says Carlsson. “Wetlands don’t smell great even when they’re healthy, but so much sewage ran into them that by the time they were covered, pretty much every creek in San Francisco was nicknamed ‘shit creek'” En Español
Ghetto Pass Revoked: A Retrospective of Mission Movies
La Mission is not the first movie to be made about or in the Mission District. En Español
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S.F. Mime Troupe Turns 50
Fundraiser tonight at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to Celebrate 50 years.
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Manny’s: Kara Swisher & Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in Conversation for Recode Decode
July 23 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Scarlet Sage Herb Co.: Eclipsing the Past: July Eclipse Portals + Mercury Retrograde
July 23 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Community Music Center: Outsound New Music Summit: Free Flowing a Night of Original Comprovisation
July 23 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Manny’s: The State of the Syrian Civil War: A Perspective from Inside
July 23 @ 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm
