When BART was built along Mission St, it was one of the first times a tunnel boring machine was used in America. (The construction history of BART is covered in utterly fascinating detail in this...
https://burritojustice.com/2014/04/09/big-hole-in-the-mission/
Real life has been interfering with important historical research. This must stop! Despite a busy day at work, I will bring history forward! Or something like that. Anyway, we’ve all seen the...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/09/20/animated-gif-from-1929/
“We’re passing through the magnetic field.” “Luke, you turned off your targeting computer!” “Stay on target…” Oh, wait, that’s no Death Star, it’s just what I think when I go ...
I am loving the new beer keg planters in front of Phat Philly. There’s a garden, what a garden Only happy faces bloom there And there’s never any room there For a worry or a gloom there Googl...
Tanforan cottages, you have met your match. Mission Loc@l reports on the discovery what is perhaps the oldest house in San Francisco at 1266 Hampshire (between 24th and 25th), dating to 1849. I...
Eric Fischer uncovers a rather startling set of mid-60s plans for the what the Mission could (probably not) have been. We’re talking massive infrastructure, along the lines of Embarcadero Cen...
A photography project focusing on San Francisco neighborhoods 200 yards at a time. The first installment of 200 Yards — Valencia & 24th — last Wednesday at Heart, was packed. Behold our 218 v...
Dear NIMBYs in Noe Valley: Seriously? Your main argument against the trial of the plaza at Noe and 24th is that it will increase congestion? Is that the best you can come up with? Any self-respec...
By Wayne Thiebaud (via Spots Unknown, via goldenfiddlr, as well as brittneyg). And yes, I just spent 5 minutes looking for potential matches on either 24th or Mariposa in Google Earth and Street ...
Continued from Part II this morning and Part I last month. Hello, my beautiful little pork sliders. Pal’s, doing an excellent job as always — their sandwiches taste even better while standing...
https://burritojustice.com/2009/07/19/sunday-streets-mission-edition-part-ii-v/