Mission Mission

That strip of parkland between Mission Street and South Van Ness was gonna be called “Mission Arcade.” And the one running east-west was “Mission Parkway.” And how helpful would those diagonals be when biking from Dear Mom to El Rio??

Bernalwood dug this up; here’s the story:

A few weeks ago, I took Bernalwood’s Cub Reporter to visit the new Exploratorium. While we were there, we wandered down a long hallway and into the Bay Observatory Gallery at the northeast corner of the museum. And in the Bay Observatory Gallery, we found a very cool collection of maps [...]

[T]he Cub Reporter was fascinated with a map visualization created by the amazing Eric Fischer (which quite speaks well of her).

Simultaneously, your Bernalwood editor was intrigued by a map of an ambitious redevelopment plan that envisioned San Francisco as a kind of Paris by the Bay, with grand boulevards and ornate gardens slicing through our familiar street grid.

Read on for a bunch more maps and history.

Now let’s rock out:

The condo construction chaos at the New Mission Theater site is displacing the Mission Community Market for a while, but it might be for the best since they get to move over to 22nd Street between Mission and Valencia, which gets a hell of a lot more foot traffic and just generally has a lot more going on than Bartlett between 21st and 22nd, where the market usually happens. Mission Local reports:

Hasel Vasquez, who runs the perfume stand in Anita’s Beauty Salon on 22nd echoed the overall sentiment: “Not only will it help the market – it will help us,” she said referring to the new foot traffic.

Vasquez said the market’s location on Bartlett is “too tucked away” and the move closer to Mission Street will give Latinos “better access.”

Read on.

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(Thanks, Allie!)

As Andrew mentioned a few weeks back, beloved local indie rockers Social Studies are playing every Monday in the Mission all month long! Here’s this week’s lineup, presented by Mission Mission and our pals at BFF.fm:

Social Studies
FOLI (members of Social Studies, Record Release)
The Tropics
DJ sets by Fortune & OneMoHit of Make It Funky SF and BFF.fm

Mon, November 18, 2013
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Brick & Mortar Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
$6.00

RSVP and invite your friends!

This is exactly why the #GoogleBus is a good thing. @MissionMission @SFist @SFExa #tech #smartcities #SanFrancisco http://t.co/FrN61vjtsc

— Adrian Covert (@AdrianCovert) November 18, 2013

Let’s see:

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Lookin’ good, gents!

P.S. Can you believe it’s been 10 whole years since Matt was almost mayor?

[Photo by Dennis]

One of the people who keep talking during the show sat down to look at her phone behind me. I've been farting on her.

— Chelsea Otakan (@chexee) November 18, 2013

Easy peasy!

Watch the whole process here:

Queens of quiz return! Shotwell’s, tonight, 8pm. Food at 6pm.

RSVP and invite your friends!