Comments on: Ebert Thinks the Mission is SF's 'Skid Row'

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By: Buenos Días Misión 04.05.10 | MissionLocal: Spanish Language Version

Tue, 04 May 2010 22:23:31 +0000

[...] Roger Ebert piensa que la Misión es el barrio de mala muerte de San Francisco. No necesita disculparse. Entendemos; estaba hablando de Vertigo. [...]

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:28:52 +0000

The ever awesome Mock Duck posted the "It's a Mission number||That's skid row, isn't it?||Could be." video snippet over at the 40 Going on 28 thread.

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:23:21 +0000

Goldang it, Hitch is good. Between him and Crumb and Kerouac I don’t think I could ever leave this stupid city.

Amazing line: “He’s probably on the bum and wants to touch you for the price of a drink.”

I think that was me Saturday night.

Kerouac: “San Francisco San Francisco You’re a muttering bum In a brown beat suit Cant make a woman On a rainy corner…”

I have had way too much coffee today.

By: olu

olu — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:44:24 +0000

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youyouyouwhy — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:36:52 +0000

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By: Good Morning Mission – Mission Loc@l -- San Francisco Mission District's News, Food, Art and Events

Tue, 04 May 2010 13:57:57 +0000

[...] Roger Ebert thinks the Mission is San Francisco’s skid row. No need to apologize. We get it; you were just referencing Vertigo. [...]

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:42:46 +0000

I’m sure Ebert knows SF better than I know Chicago.

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:51:02 +0000

Transcript of Vertigo, our section below:

SCOTTIE: How’s your love life, Midge?

MIDGE: That’s following a train of thought.

SCOTTIE: Well?

MIDGE: Normal.

SCOTTIE: Aren’t you ever going to get married?

MIDGE: (Lightly) You know there’s only one man in the world for me, Johnny-O.

SCOTTIE: Yeah, I’m a brute. We were engaged once though, weren’t we?

MIDGE: Three whole weeks.

SCOTTIE: Ah, sweet college days. But you’re the one who blew it. I’m still available. Available Ferguson. Say, Midge, do you remember a guy at college named Gavin Elster?

MIDGE: Gavin? Gavin Elster? You’d think I’d would. No.

SCOTTIE: I got a call from him today. Funny. He dropped out of sight during the war, and I’d heard he’d gone East. I guess he’s back.
(he fishes out a slip of paper)
It’s a Mission number.

MIDGE: That’s Skid Row… isn’t it?

SCOTTIE: Could be.

MIDGE: He’s probably on the bum and wants to touch you for the price of a drink.

SCOTTIE: Well, I’m on the bum; I’ll buy him a couple of drinks and tell him my troubles. But not tonight. If you won’t drink with me, I’ll drink alone, tonight.

So that Johnny-O reference was a little startling. And before the mid 1950s, Gavin was not at all a common name. Kind of strange to think that parents would name their kids after that particular Hitchcock character.

By: generic

generic — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:26:27 +0000

Except that Nob Hill is historically one the most affluent areas of San Francisco and the Loin is, um, not. There’s a significant gradient, topographically and economically, that belongs to neither category.

That neighborhood has a has shitload of people. It needs to be called something and “suckers” (read: Academy of Art students) is a little rude.

I mean, people might have a point with NOPA, but the Tendernob is a real thing.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:11:27 +0000

My boss was born in 1936. He grew up in Potrero Hill and he said the South of Market area used to be called The Mission. I think Hitchcock and Ebert are right on this one.

Real Estate developers like to balkanize cities to sell more properties in shitty or formerly shitty areas. An example is calling a part of the Tenderloin, the Tender Nob.