My grandmother, now 100, talks about her three decades in the Mission

Oct 2, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter

Adela Martinez, my grandmother, remembers well how grateful she was to make the Mission her home...

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Listen Local: The sad — and sadly typical — tale of San Francisco’s ‘oldest house’

Apr 6, 2018 | Front Page, ListenLoc@l, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Last week, Mission Local columnist Joe Eskenazi and reporter Julian Mark discussed San...

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Is the Wash Club building a historic resource to SF’s Mission?

Feb 21, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Housing, Local History, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Last week, the Board of Supervisors declined to vote on an appeal of an eight-story, 75-unit...

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SF neighbors organize to create a greenway in the Mission

Feb 7, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Government & Non Profits, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Neighbors of the old Southern Pacific right-of-way between Harrison Street and Treat Avenue have...

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Parcel 36: the lot San Francisco’s county, city and tax collector forgot

Dec 27, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Housing, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Parcel 36 is a vacant lot occupied by a colony of feral cats, redolent with the scent of wild...

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After dark history, Homestead rings in 115 years

Nov 11, 2017 | Events, Featured, Front Page, Local History, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

When Deb Welch first stepped into The Homestead, a bar at the corner 19th and Folsom, it was love...

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SF Mission’s Pop’s Bar celebrates 80 years

Oct 24, 2017 | 24th Street, Business, Events, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, SNAPS, Today's Mission, Topics

Legend has it that Pop’s Bar has been peddling booze on 24th Street since the dark days of...

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Unearthing the Mission’s history through storytelling

Oct 20, 2017 | Art, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

A writing project that set out to tell stories about the Mission’s past is now becoming a...

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The Discolandia sign is here to stay

Aug 4, 2017 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The historic Discolandia sign at 2964 24th Street will remain its original orange, black and white...

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Artists take to labor temple to “reclaim Cinco de Mayo”

May 4, 2017 | Events, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

A group of artists, musicians and activists will mark May 5 by exploring the history of the battle...

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Grocery, sports clubhouse, party den: Shotwell’s Bar has seen it all

Mar 30, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

When Tom Madonna left the San Francisco finance world to start a bar in 2006, he needed a change....

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Elixir Bar: A Deep Fount of Mission History

Mar 17, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Local History, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

When you grab a drink at Elixir on 16th and Guerrero streets, you might not know you’re inside the...

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Hunger Strike, Homelessness, Illicit Partying: Our Favorite Stories of 2016

Dec 31, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

For all the talk about journalism being in a death spiral, Mission Local staff has some highlights...

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Community Music Center Celebrates 95th Anniversary

Nov 21, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

The Community Music Center celebrated its 95th anniversary on Sunday with a “Field Day at...

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The Sound of the Mission’s History Returns Remixed

Nov 9, 2016 | 24th Street, Events, Featured, Front Page, Local History, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Think you know the Mission and its history? You might discover something new at the Brava Center...

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Busting the Myths of California’s Missions

Oct 7, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Local History, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The historical “myths” of the Spanish missions in California were heavily critiqued at a...

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