My new favorite blog is Mission and Highland, a whole blog devoted to life at the intersection of Mission Street and Highland Avenue, at the absolute southernmost tip of what you might still call the Outer Mission.
The most recent post features this photo of a phone pole being chainsawed down. Badass.
Previously:
Very cool.
hey it’s my neighborhood!
has anyone ever gotten their shoes shined by that guy (there’s a picture of his sign on that blog) that offers shoeshines out of his garage? unfortunately i don’t have any shine-able shoes.
I say Highland’s the pointy end of La Lengua. Welcome, Highlanders!
I took this picture of a former telephone pole doing double duty as a sign post and a patron saint.
Not to nitpick, but to nitpick, most people (including Craigslist) consider the Outer Mission to be a far flung area around Crocker Amazon and Excelsior, that doesn’t border “The Mission” at all. Mission and Highland is in The Mission or Bernal.
Thank you, Jess — you’re spot on. The Outer Mission is way the hell out by the Daly City border; there’s even a Wikipedia entry for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Mission,_San_Francisco,_California
You can call Mission between Cesar Chavez and 280 “Lower Mission Street” or even Bernal Heights (because it is, according to the city and the realtors) but it’s sure not the Outer Mission.
Hey Anita, Jess, does my map look right to you dwellers of the southern lands?
Thanks for pimping the blog.
And, yes Mark. I have gotten my shoes signed in that guy’s garage. He used to shine shoes downtown. Now he’s retired. He’s owned that home for like 40 years.
I prefer “The Deep Mission”.
Agreed. It is deep.
I think that same guy made a whole album of songs inspired by that intersection, named Mission & Highland.