Mission Mission

Over the past couple of months I’ve noticed and collected pictures of these delightful maintenance badges inside of BART cars. Each with their own personality:

Richmond: “Hey don’t let all that gang rape stuff that happens in Richmond put you off–don’t you want your BART car to enjoy a lovely bay view while its being serviced? Richmond Maintenance Facility: home of the best view of San Rafael in the bay area.”

Hayward: “Look, if you want some guy to bullshit with you about sports and the weather while he does sub-par work, go to Concord. If you want solid, no-nonsense maintenance done on your BART car, come to Hayward. We take quality seriously and have 15+ years of industry experience to prove it. Our 10-point inspection includes door re-greasing, upholstery steaming, and complete removal of graffiti cocks scrawled on the on windows.”

Concord: “Think we’re just a bunch of bummer straight-ahead mechanics from a failed city? Think again. We actually have kick-ass senses of humor as indicated by this badge’s allusion to classic WB cartoons. Free coffee, donuts, and ESPN while you wait. Say me and the boys are going out for a drink at the Time Out afterwards. Why don’t you join us? And… fuck it, here are the keys to my house.”

It seems like these are all at the terminal stations. That might mean I’m missing Daly City Maintenance Facility. First one who gets me a snap of it’s badge gets a high five.

Update: Heyo!

Snapped at 16th and Mission:

Is this some marketing ploy to skirt around not-really selling things for a dollar? Kinda like when Kentucky Friend Chicken renamed themselves to KFC after they started serving mutant chickens. Or maybe “dollarón” is Spanish for “really large dollar”.

Boy, I really have a thing for dollar stores, don’t I?

Well, I’m not sure what you expected to see:

Members of the Mission High School ROTC, San Francisco, Calif., demonstrate .50 cal water cooled machine gun for Jackie Walling, 340 Valencia, a member of the ROTC Band. (L-R) Larry Fifield, 72 Fair Oaks; Melvin Cook, 62 Santa Ynez Ave.; Neil Cook, 3517 16th St. These students are shown in their new issue uniforms which consist of ETO jackets in place of the old time blouses.

I love how it lists their addresses. You know, just in case you want to send any of them a letter.

The online SF Historical Photo Collection (AKA one the sources of Johnny0‘s power) has loads of sweet images like this.

In this week’s Mission Station Newsletter, incoming Captain Greg Corrales introduces us to the eight incoming detectives he seems to be pretty pumped about:

The eight sterling super sleuths serving citizens of the district are:
· Inspector John Miller is a 17-year veteran. He has worked in SWAT and
has previously served in the Mission District. He has spent the last five
years investigating crimes while assigned to the Bureau of Inspectors.
· Sergeant Thomas Johnson is a 12-year veteran. He too, has previously
served in the Mission District. He has spent the last three years
investigating crimes while assigned to the Bureau of Inspectors
· Sergeant William Conley is a 14-year veteran. He has previously
served at Northern Station and the Vice Detail. He most recently served as
a patrol supervisor in the Bayview District.
· Sergeant Scott Gaines is a 14-year veteran. He has served in the
Central and Northern Districts, as well as the Vice Detail. He was
previously working as a patrol supervisor in the Mission District before I
asked him to move to Investigations.
· Sergeant Arline Gilmore is a 15-year veteran. She previously served
in the Taraval District where for many years she was part of the elite TNT
unit (Taraval Neighborhood Task Force). She was also a patrol supervisor in
the Mission District before I asked her to move to Investigations.
· Sergeant Kevin Healy is a 14-year veteran. He has previously served
in the Tenderloin District, where while working as a decoy he was robbed
hundreds of times. He most recently served in the Narcotics Division.
· Sergeant Kevin McPherson is a 10-year veteran. He previously worked
in the Bayview District.
· Sergeant Christopher Woon is a 14-year veteran. He has previously
served in the Ingleside, Taraval, and Northern Districts.

Captain Corrales has also taken to prefacing his newsletters with a thought-provoking quote or poem. Here is this week’s:

“’Tis easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To receive the newsletter for yourself, email Mirna.Melendez@sfgov.org and ask to be added to the list.

Spending an evening above 18th Street just, um, cueing up the tees, or hitting the ol’ little whiteys or whatever kind of slang is associated with golfing.

This amazing chalk rendition of Quetzalcoatl (any relation to Missionlocatl?) just popped up on 21st and Valencia. More pictures and details are up on the artist’s blog.

Mission Mission reader Todd gave us the heads up about an upcoming community meeting discussing a potential new park on 17th and Folsom:

We need your help to design a proposed new open space in the Northeast Mission! Help the City design this space and tell us what types of activities and programs are needed in the neighborhood.

The site is currently a parking lot on the corner of 17th and Folsom Streets. The City is working on acquiring this site and converting a portion of this space to a neighborhood park.

The following will be provided:

English to Spanish translation

Light refreshments

Childcare & youth friendly activities

Here’s the time and location:

Marshall Elementary School 1575 15th St. (at Capp)
Saturday, January 23
11:00 AM

I always thought this site across from the Rite Spot Cafe could use some beautifying. We all agree on parks right? I mean it’s not like this is a luxury condo, boutique store, or parking lot.

Well, I’m sure one of you will find a way to post a nasty comment about why parks are a bad idea. Such as how they have the tendency to attract those unsavory bike polo types. Go to it, readers!

Reader Mr. P. says:

Last night around 10:45pm there was a hit-and-run at mission and 18th street – a pedestrian was run over completely by a car, which then sped off. It was about the most awful thing I’ve ever seen.

SFPD has no record of any such incident. Can anyone else corroborate?

Update: Mr. P. elaborates:

A car parked on Mission Street was pointed south and pulled out quickly from a parking spot after someone driving by seemed to shout/throw something at the car.  After the car pulled out it accelerated quickly and then gunned the engine turning right (west) onto 18th street.  The pedestrian was in the crosswalk and basically was mowed down as the car went by.

A fire truck, police, and ambulance were there pretty quickly. It was a pretty scary thing to see in our neighborhood!

Hella bands tonight at the Lab. Contrary to the info on the flyer, the official roster is: Boyz IV Men, Date Palms, Work, Raccoons, Glass Cake. Bearded DJ Triste Tropiques will be spinning the only bands that matter: SF bands! There will also be FREE COOKIES; no word yet on what kind.

This is all in celebration of DarDarDar‘s 1-year anniversary. DarDarDar is a great site that lists bay area shows that you care about. It’s the cleanest, most bullshit-free calendar there is and I highly recommend it. It’s way better than flipping through the SF Weekly or combing through each venue’s lousy web site. The site owner is also a Dreamdate bro and tasteful photoblogger.

“Dar” is short for the last syllable in “Calendar”. That fucking word was my death blow at the 6th grade Stanislaus County Spelling Bee. I let a lot of people down that day. If only I could give back that pizza party the principal had in my honor.

Me neither. But I saw this car on South Van Ness. It had some shadows from a fence on it.