Comments on: Another Trippy Old Map

By: Today’s Mission: 01.30.09 | Mission Loc@l

Today’s Mission: 01.30.09 | Mission Loc@l — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:33:08 +0000

[...] have been diving headfirst into this historical map stuff, helped by several contributors. Check this one out. Amazing. Who knew the Mission had [...]

By: Gillian Gillett

Gillian Gillett — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:12:54 +0000

Hey, johnny0, thanks for the plug. The Cesar Chavez Street Design calls for serpentining the median plantings in order to pay homage to the path of the Islais Creek: http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/planning/City_Design_Group/CDG_mission_cesarchavez.htm Hard to serpentine a roadway that carries nearly 40K vehicles per day…gotta do something about that first. Maybe the counts will go down once the PUC rips “That road” up between San Jose Avenue and 101 to install a secondary sewer.

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:38:14 +0000

Yup. It and all of the other cemeteries were moved out of the city soon after the gold rush, mostly down to Colma.

By: eddo

eddo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:48:12 +0000

WHOA. Do I have my numbered streets wrong, or did Dolores Park used to be a… JEWISH CEMETERY?

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:24:16 +0000

You can see a bit of the proposed widened, green Cesar Chavez median at Greening Guerrero. And then you have the light rail over the new grassy median! I could get behind that.

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:12:23 +0000

I’d be all over that. I’d heard about the medians through Gillian and Greening Guerrero, but I like re-serpentining better. “That road” really sucks as it is.

While they’re at it, they can run light rail to the 22nd St Caltrain station so my car doesn’t get broken into on Pennsylvania. That station is so close, yet so far.

By: Neo Displacer

Neo Displacer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:48:43 +0000

There is a proposal out there to restore the creek and serpentine routing of Army, ahem, Cesar Chavez. It’s a crazy idea, but it would really be cool. At the very least the section from 101 to Valencia should be re-striped and planted with trees making for a grand entrance to our lovely barrio.

By: I’ll Meet you at Valencia and Falcon « Burrito Justice

I’ll Meet you at Valencia and Falcon « Burrito Justice — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:04:17 +0000

[...] Meet you at Valencia and Falcon Mission Mission points us to the most excellent 1861 Langley map of San Francisco, with great detail around the [...]

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:11:45 +0000

I clipped and rotated the map from davidrumsey.com to make the street names easier to read. South is up.

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:54:14 +0000

I love this one. Zoomable super hi rez version from Rumsey . "Shall we go to the Willows Pleasure Garden and have a beer? Then let us meet at Falcon and Valencia forthwith!"