This old building on 15th and Dolores has been hiked up on stilts for a couple of months now. Wondering why? No, it’s not being relocated to Oakland to be cooler.
The short answer is that someone’s excavating the site for construction of a new building. The long answer involves some crazy-ass history including a Luterhan church founded by Swedes and an arson plot allegedly perpetrated by the Aryan brotherhood.
Intrigued? Read on at Curbed SF.
[photo by dexnandflexn]
i think that building is protected as ‘historic’, so the developers have to build their condos around/on top of it . . .
why no mention of central kitchen, probably the most important restaurant opening in city all year (or st. vincent for that matter). someone’s palm was not greased first?
Maybe we’re tired of people accusing us of being paid to write here. I don’t make a cent doing this, fyi.
I don’t know enough about food to distinguish why Central Kitchen is the “most important restaurant” opening this year. Care to explain?
Also, we covered St. Vincent back in March:
http://www.missionmission.org/2012/03/07/st-vincent-the-restaurant-not-the-band-coming-soon/
“Fake scum” is just a dopey troll — ignore the ass behind the curtain
Still fairly interested in what there is to say about Central Kitchen aside from it being a famous local chef opening another restaurant.
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/05/10/central-kitchen-makes-its-mission-debut-tonight/
just another douchey fancy restaurant opening in the Mission, which may or may not have Scum on the payroll.
real scum is ALSO a dopey troll.
Helen, McNaughton paid his protection money, did I forget to put it in the ledger? You’re totally fine to mention his restaurants now, just don’t forget to log it so we can collect our $50/post.
http://www.missionmission.org/?s=mcnaughton
It’s sort of the opposite. They’re not friends with the owners of Central Kitchen, therefore they don’t give a fuck.
Got it. Why do you think they’re friends with some people who run businesses and not others?
jenga though!!!! way more important.
Very nice to see that the developers were forced to save the building, as opposed to just demolish it.
They already moved it over to the inner edge of the property to make room for something streetside.
I’ll miss my old squat – had a lot of fun there back in the day.
I don’t think that meets the seismic code.
Back in the early 90′s that corner was a community garden.
also back in the 90s, 15-year-old Tricia Sullivan of Klamath Falls was murdered there by her ‘friends.’ the gutted ruins of that church used to be where a lot of homeless kids crashed, did dope and even murdered each other.
“On May 12, 1995, a different street teen disappeared – for good. Police found her body stuffed into a closet in a burned-out church taken over by squatters. She had been strangled. Black and red occult symbols adorned her face. Downstairs, in the makeshift bedroom of one of her alleged assailants, a dresser held dirty laundry, a bottle of bleach, and used syringes. Above it was a fading Judy Collins photo and a bit of graffiti scrawled on the wall: “There’s nothing like senseless violence to snap you out of a depression.”
There was no identification on the corpse, just a Muni transfer ticket and some pocket changes. The body was transported to the morgue, placed on a slab, and classified as Jane Doe No. 16. Autopsied by the city pathologist four days later, she was found to be a healthy woman, between 15 and 18 years of age.
A runaway who had given herself a new identity and rechristened herself “Stevie,” she melded with the other lost souls, young discards, and misfits who have thrown off mainstream society’s rules and call San Francisco’s streets home.”
http://www.sfweekly.com/1995-09-13/news/runaway-train/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1995/05/22/NEWS5432.dtl
I remember that one. Do you remember this one, on Bartlett Street?