Comments on: What Will Become of 24th Street’s Iconic Discolandia Storefront?

By: hats! hats! hats!

hats! hats! hats! — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:39:20 +0000

Holy shit, we got hats!!!

By: a51

a51 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:40:53 +0000

it could become a cafe
sugarlump, L’s, sundance, philz, dynamo, haus, …discolandia?

the people of the mission need coffee almost as much as they need burritos, maybe more.

By: Erick Arguello

Erick Arguello — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:48:45 +0000

I have spoken to Silvia the owner of Discolandia and she has not decided as to what she wants to do with her sign.

By: piratesnack

piratesnack — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:48:50 +0000

God help the owner of this building.

By: rod

rod — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:51:22 +0000

oh, so this is all about you. i see.

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:38:18 +0000

Let it go. Not every ‘iconic-looking’ thing has to stay around forever. Why not incentivize other/new businesses to have similarly wacky signage instead?

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:38:02 +0000

Let it go. Not every ‘iconic-looking’ thing has to stay around forever. Why not incentivize other businesses

By: jaricoandlinda

jaricoandlinda — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:10:53 +0000

I’ve included a link to the staff on the committee in a post below, wrote them and cc’d Mission Local. I fucking love that sign.

By: jaricoandlinda

jaricoandlinda — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:55:09 +0000

Here’s the list of people on the Historic Preservation Commission and their email addresses. Why not drop a note and let them know how much you love the Discolandia sign.
Let’s not have another 17 Reasons on our hands.
http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1892

By: jaricoandlinda

jaricoandlinda — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:51:32 +0000

I mean the entire street. I don’t buy music at all. Don’t illegally download it. Listen to radio stations on the internet. But I do patronize the shops on 24th street regularly. El Chico #3 for the meat counter, the mexicatessen for my tamales, Torta Gorda, La Victoria for my pan dulce and coffee. I feel like the very essence of that street is changing and it’s only a matter of time when it will be pretty much like Valencia street. I doubt there’s much that can be done, but I’ll miss it. I can’t eat art galleries or buy my toilet paper at a tony little clothing store. It’s not even the Mexican vs American argument so much as we are losing the businesses that provide goods and services for the neighborhood in favor of boutiques. I suppose this reflects the transformation from blue collar to upper middle class. I have a very old lease and fairly reasonable rent after 15 years here so I’m kinda stuck but my discretionary income can’t keep up with the changes.

By: cliff notes

cliff notes — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:55:30 +0000

Actually specialty & independent music stores are having a boom.. this happened because of white people.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:24:49 +0000

This has nothing to do with gentrification or the changing nature of the neighborhood. It has everything to do with the fact that just about every brick-and-mortar store that sells music in any form is going out of business. Amoeba is about the only exception.

By: rod

rod — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:11:13 +0000

did you regularly support and make purchases at Discolandia?

By: mattymatt

mattymatt — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:29:27 +0000

That would be the Historic Preservation Commission that you want to go talk to. They meet on every first and third Wednesday.

By: jaricoandlinda

jaricoandlinda — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:30:17 +0000

I see that the changes are inevitable and gentrification and blah blah blah. I don’t wanna get into some huge discussion, but can I just say things are changing so much on 24th street, and I’m gonna miss it. That’s all.