Comments on: 17th & Guerrero

By: iliveheresf

iliveheresf — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:01:09 +0000

I loved the background behind these photos. I miss the San Francisco I never lived in although I’m glad to be here now.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:52:46 +0000

Anybody know the deal with that corner store? It’s open like three hours a week and carries about seventeen items for sale in total. Would be great to have a working corner store.

By: jp

jp — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:00:33 +0000

its just different. i lived at 18th and lexington from 1993-1999 and then moved back to the city in 2005 and couldnt afford to live in the neighborhood anymore! i loved annas and my house too was an outpost of quality junk. now i do love tartine and go to birite everyonce in awhile but its not my neighborhood anymore. id maybe feel different if i still lived there.

By: Lapidgeon

Lapidgeon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:24:16 +0000

That corner store looks like it has the same stock that it did in 1993.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:52:39 +0000

I liked it a lot then. I furnished my apartment at Quality Junk. Carl’s had great coffee for less than a dollar a cup. Service was definitely better at Carl’s than Tartine, but I don’t remember their staff being as attractive. The corner was great then, and it’s nice now too. Neither better or worse. Just different.

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:50:23 +0000

That’s a tricky question. Thanks. When I moved here I was going into high school, and was coming from the Santa Cruz mountains, so the neighborhood was both scary and exciting.

Our rent was less than $900 for a top floor two bedroom hardwood railroad apartment looking out onto Dolores Park. Then, during the dot com boom our landlord evicted us through a loophole and tripled the rent.

So, it’s kind of hard not to be bitter about the changes. But the fact that I have fought to stay in the neighborhood definitely says something. I’m not sure what, though.

By: Plug1

Plug1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:31:22 +0000

excellent reportage! this is one of the best posts i have seen on Mission Mission in a while.

ive been here since 96, so that was a nice trip down memory lane. it most certainly is a different neighborhood than it was 10 years ago. or even 5 years ago.

my question to you (and the other readers) is: do you enjoy it more in its current incarnation, or do you wish you could turn back time and revert it to 1993?