Mission Mission

Deal With It today published an interview with Storts, our favorite messenger. Here’s an excerpt:

What’s the craziest think you have seen while at work?

Craziest thing at work would probably be the time I saw a bummy fight, and one of the dudes was tossed into on coming traffic and got hit by a car. Smashed the cars front window, but just got up and continued to fight with what I’m sure was a broken everything! Man that PCP is one powerful drug!

What are your top 5 cities for riding and why?

Cities I love to ride in would be SAN FRANCISCO, Portland, L.A ., Hawaii, and OHH anywhere in Japan! But I’m going to europe for the CMWC’s (Cycle Messenger World Championships) so there might be another one we gotta add, but I’ll let you know how it goes when/if i come back.

Read on.

[Photo by juicyrai]

Yet another gem by juicyrai. Click pic to view it large, because it looks even better large.

More juicyrai on Mission Mission.

Photo by juicyrai.

Update: I really should have titled this Skateboarder 1, Mazda Miata 0. Mission Mission apologizes for the oversight.

This sight always makes me feel pretty good. Nicely captured by juicyrai. Definitely do click to enlarge.

Update: Haha. Jake says…

LOL at first comment on Flickr page: “Just wish they could dump the chain link fence for something a bit more regal. Chain link fencing isn’t very welcoming.”

For serious, BART! Who you gotta blow to maybe get some western red cedar fencing up in this bitch? I CANNOT COME HOME TO THIS CHAINLINK BULLSHIT OKAY

MAC SF just published a piece called A Tale of Two Commercial Corridors, which laments the divide between Mission and Valencia:

Valencia has become iconic for its high-end eclecticism, it’s hipster saturated streets and pricey restaurants. The demographic on the street is young, hyper-educated and affluent. Mission Street is, well, Mission Street, full of brown faces, families with kids, recent immigrants, grime, and all kinds of cheap apparel stores up and down the corridor. Two streets that sit side by side running parallel through the Mission District, only a block away but worlds apart.

It goes on compare the amount of attention paid to the New Mission Theater project to the amount of attention paid to American Apparel.

To me, this divide is thee crux of this notion we call “The Mission.” MAC can highlight what they need to in order to effect the political changes they’re after, but my question is this: Would the Mission be the Mission without this divide?

I wasn’t here 10 years ago or 15 years ago or 40 years ago, but I’m here now and I love the Mission now. And I love it for all of the things that it is, now. I love that these two streets are “only a block away but worlds apart.” And on some level, I think we all do. Because it’s the human experience in microcosm? Something about the duality of man?

Here’s a thought: What if it’s this very divide that makes the Mission so unique?

Now I’m off to City Hall (where, incidentally, I’m gonna try this). If any news happens, I’ll be in touch.

Photos by juicyrai.

More great stuff by juicyrai. Click to enlarge.

Previously:

People on Mission Street

We’re digging juicyrai‘s photos. Click to enlarge.