Good morning!

Sorry for the delayed email on Thursday, but it was Mailchimp’s fault…for once. While I greeted you “good morning” and told you to enjoy your lunch, you were probably eating dinner. Sigh.

What I love about Snaps? The reader participation and the emails I get from time to time about one or another. Remember this snap from Michael Santiago?

an old advertisement on the side of a building for flapjack flour
At Capp and 16th streets. Photo by Michael Santiago.

A reader wrote in: My grandfather, who passed on many years ago, worked as a food chemist at Albers in San Francisco from about 1920 to 1923. He would reminisce briefly about Albers, tell me he made $20 per week (which was about the wages of a skilled laborer back then, when bread cost a few pennies per loaf)

Time and memories.

There is a lot to do, as you will see below. Also, Eleni’s detail of the uneaten sandwiches in Cop Watch has stayed with me: a whole story in a detail.

If you have not already, join the many others who support Mission Local – a wonderful group of readers.

Enjoy the weekend,

Lydia

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Coming soon: Live police surveillance, residents fail to fill tables at an open meeting with police, and a mayoral appointee who votes his own way.

Neighborhood Notes: Open Studio & More

By Chuqin Jiang

So much to do this weekend: Art, a book reading, a celebration of the faces on Folsom, printing fun for the whole family and even more!

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By Walter Mackins

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Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019 when I retired. 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 there.

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.

Right now I'm trying to figure out how you make that long-held interest in local news sustainable. The answer continues to elude me.