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Hi,
Thanks so much for the comments on my taco truck story! We’re having a launch party on Nov. 6 and we wanted to invite you and your readers.
I hope you can make it!
Helene Goupil
Details below:
Thursday, November 6: Mission Loc@l Launch Party
Mission Loc@l (www.missionlocal.org) is a brand new website dedicated to news in the Mission District. Articles are written by U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism students. We’re celebrating the launch of our new site by hosting a happy hour at Cava 22. Come meet us!
Cava 22 (3239 22nd Street at Bartlett)
Thursday, November 6
5:00 PM- 8:00 PM
For more information please contact missionlocal@gmail.com.
Think global, Mission local
http://www.missionlocal.org
Johnny0,
How do I get in touch with you?
gillian 650.346.3551
Hey holmes. Gave you a shout out on my site today. Thought you might dig it:
http://brokeassstuart.com/2009/05/01/broke-ass-porn-street-food/
also, let’s trade links.
stuart
BurritoJustice–
Please attend the first ever Shitty Kitty meetup! We’ll be sure to make you your very own shitty kitty doing whatever you want it to be doing with a burrito. No sweat.
So it is this Thursday, 6:30pm, at Shotwell’s . More info here –
http://telephoneandsoup.com/uncategorized/shitty-kitty-still-this-thursday .
See you there!
-Steven
hi there,
just threw your site onto our blogroll. wondering if you might return the favor?
Done!
Dude,
You should come to the second Music Flea Market this Saturday on 20th and Florida.
Nice people playing and selling instruments and eating baja-style fish tacos.
http://www.musicfleamarket.blogspot.com/
Eric
Hmm, I didn’t see an e-mail anywhere on here, but I was wondering if I might be able to use a couple of images that you took for this site in a documentary about Mission Street Food that I’m producing? It’s nearly finished, but I’d like to use a couple stills from the early days of the taco truck and Anthony from MSF recommended a couple that you have on this blog.
Would you mind e-mailing me as soon as you have a chance? We’re hoping to get this piece out very soon and we’d appreciate the help! Thanks so much.
Best,
Kai Hsing
TheQuotidian.org
I’m writing to ask if I can use one of your photos for a flyer encouraging neighbors to leave their lights on and discourage crime. I can give you a pitiful payment out of my own pocket..the pic is of Bernal, long exposure.
No, it’s not for Bernal. It’s the Excelsior. I’m trying to make the place safe and comfy to visit or live in. so, can you help me out?
I just have to out myself — longtime lurker, but once again have found myself falling down the rabbit hole of your wonderful blog. As a tour guide in the city, I am deeply impressed with your obsessive (in a good way) approach to local history research. And you always make me miss living in the Mission. (Noe Valley is yawnsville.)
Hi Johnny0,
I love Burrito Justice, and I was wondering if I could talk to you about contributing to a book I’m working on.
I love Burrito Justice too, and would like to buy you a drink! I live on Tiffany Ave and really appreciate learning the history about our neighborhood.
Love the blog. Am trying to send you an iPhone video I took at the Ramp the other day – thought it might interest you. email?
Hi,
I sent this same note to Mission Mission.
I was wondering if you guys know anything about the DeLano’s on 23rd and South Van Ness supposedly closing. I noticed they were missing produce on Monday, and I asked one of the employees if they were remodeling. He said they were actually supposed to CLOSE THE STORE that day, but it got postponed.
I want that DeLano’s to stay open!!! It’s convenient and it’s not a Whole Foods. I even like that it’s not a Safeway because it’s not crowded ever, and the employees that work there are really nice. Can you guys look into this or something? One of the checkers told me to contact DeLano’s and try to tell them to keep it open.
Maybe I’m the only one in the world that wants it to stay open, but if SF continues to become Suburbia I’m moving.
http://burritojustice.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bernal-narrow.jpg?w=450&h=614
did you take this photo?
No, that was by bats — the link to his Flickr page is on the page that picture is on.
Could you signal-boost this competition? We could raise $30K for McLaren Park, the jewel of the Excelsior:
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/dap_10153_12605_DAP_More+Green+Across+America
Surely we can do better than some place in VIRGINIA.
Might you or any of your burrito minded ilk be down with the Lamb Takedown? I’m looking for 20 contestants, and can give each of them 15lbs of bacon to work with. The event is Aug 8 at Thirsty Bear! Please spread the word!
$15 to come down and try all the awesome stuff…
Might we see a mini Lamb burrito/taco? Hope hope…
http://chili-takedown.com/?p=1389
Hey there, hoping you could contact me via email when you get the chance. I had a question for you regarding a story I’m doing.
Thanks!
Christine
Mission Loc@l
Hey,
I just saw something interesting in an article about Noe Valley
http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/noevalley/
The article makes reference to Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh … and his living in Noe Valley. I was wondering if it is the same place mentioned by my neighbor who has been on Fair Oaks st for 40+ years. My neighbor mentioned an Ashram on Fair Oaks st at 24th.
How would I track down what was on the 200 block of Fair Oaks?
Best,
MW
Unfortunately my time machine only starts working before 1950. Old phone books at the SFPL maybe?
Just heard the following on NPR. It made me think of Burrito Justice – different neighborhood but similar sense of history. http://99percentinvisible.org/
Thanks for that link — good stuff.
Wondering if you have any information on 1106-08 Shotwell. We’re in the process of getting CA. Historical Designation. We’ve been told our home and 3 others in the area is called and Eastlake/Stick style. Just wondering if you have any links for me to do some research or if you have any history on this home.
Thanks,
Have you seen the South Mission Historic Survey map?
1106-08 Shotwell
You are right in the middle of the old Pioneer Race Course.
Thank you so much! It’s just such an interesting house. It survived the ’06 quake, there is a picture of it in a book called San Francisco Then and Now. Other than that we couldn’t find anything else. When I saw your map of the Pioneer Track I decided to start digging a little more and try and find a history of the place.
I know the D6 election covers the all of Deco Ghetto, MiSoPo, some of the Mastro, Hipster Valencia and El Tonayense Flats.
So these might be funny.
http://thetenderblog.com/2010/10/22/the-real-district-6-campaign-posters/
Hello! I was wondering if you could contact me regarding a possible interview with Curbed SF. If you could contact me via email when you get the chance that’d be great. Thanks.
Sally Kuchar
Editor, Curbed SF
I know people that live in the old Sears building tower (yes, the tower) and they regularly host well attended house concerts by great talent. There is one tonight actually, but they do it pretty often. Email if you need more info.
Hey JohnnyO, who do Burrito Justice readers want for SF interim mayor? Please let them know they can vote on http://sfmayorvote.com. Thanks!
Hey John!
Chris from MSF/Plebiscite/McSweeney’s here. We’re working on a project with Anthony/MSF that we’d love your help with. Could you drop me a line when you get a second?
—Chris
subcribe please. (no facebook?)
thanks!
I’m told your name is Johnny O. I’ve been trying to find a way to email you directly, as I am working on a CAD 3D model of San Francisco from the 1852-3 US Coast Survey. It’s a part of putting together some short architecture videos in a series I’ve been doing the last couple of years on SF Architecture topics.
on http://lymarch.com/wordpress/?p=187 there is a pic taken of a view of that model.
on http://lymarch.com/wordpress/?p=131 I talk about the great piece you did on the Valencia Hotel collapse.
I’m having trouble finding pics taken right after the 1989 quake of Mission area damage that I remember from roaming the Mission, but without a camera (stupid).
The 3D model also includes the northern 1/2 of Bernal Heights but not La Lengua. I does include the Precita Creek area however.
Hope I can contact you…
Howdy.
Just a short note to let you know that CALIBER (in your blog roll) has been shut down and four of the brotographers from that venture have started a new San Francisco-based photoblog called ALL CITY. http://allcitysf.com/
In fact, our launch day featured a photograph of something you might enjoy – the Mission’s graffiti-adorned Caledonia Street at night.
Love and hugs and all that other manly stuff,
Bob :)
Thanks Bob — All City looks good, will update.
Hi Burrito Justice.
I’ve been wondering about the invisible street that cuts diagonally through the Mission from 22nd and Harrison to approximately 27th and Dolores. You can see it on google maps: http://bit.ly/kTn8iS
Do you know what’s up with that? Thanks.
Just came across this project to crowdsource / algorithmically determine SF neighborhood boundaries: http://hood.theory.org .. seemed like it may be of some interest, especially considering a certain omission in the drop-down options.
Just wanted to share a map project that I finished up. Probably needs a little tweaking, but would be interested in any comments.
http://sfgeo.blogspot.com/2011/05/38-san-francisco-streets-of-san.html
Hello!
I was wondering if you could contact me regarding a possible ticket giveaway with SFJFF. We have some great films that you might be interested in, they are showing at the historic Castro Theatre! Please contact me via email when you get the chance.
Many Thanks,
Valentina
Thought of your blog today when I saw Sutro Tower from Mt. Olympus. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpieracci/5948813508/in/photostream
Another long time lurker here: love your site and the digressions into SF history.
Have you seen http://www.historypin.com? It’s a website (& mobile apps) that allow for placing historical images in place. With the mobile app, you can overlay the image on a live camera image. It’s a lot like the Museum of London StreetMuseum App, but allows for user-supplied content.
Here’s La Lengua pre-1920: http://www.historypin.com/photos/#/geo:37.752713,-122.420455/zoom:16/date_from:1840-01-01/date_to:1920-12-31/
Keep up the great work,
Bruce
Thanks! Yeah, started noodling around with History Pin, I need to get stuff uploaded!
In a similar vein to History Pin, but more SF-focused, there’s now oldsf.org. It’s the SFPL’s digital photograph collections, but geocoded on a map. Lots of fun stuff, e.g. Dolores Park as a refugee camp (http://bit.ly/rbJxl2) or the second Cliff House (http://bit.ly/r29Dlh).
- Dan
This. Is. Awesome.
We need to talk about the Sanborn maps.
Johnnyo
I have a client who really likes your SF Islands Map. They want to use it for the basis of a wall graphic in their downtown office. We’d like to modify the graphic a little to make it work for the space. Do you have any licensing info that would allow them to use the graphic as not-for-profit, onetime use artwork? Or will a simple credit note on the wall work for you?
Feel free to contact me at jj_beard@gensler.com.
Thanks!
Where’s that great tee shirt you were wearing last night? –SSArtist
Ta da!
http://www.zazzle.com/sutro_スートロ_tshirt-235534037293406637
cool! but… what does the japanese writing say? Sutro?
Yup. It’s the phonetic equivalent.
スー = suu
ト = to
ロ = ro
suu-to-ro
co-ol
!
:)
Upcoming Sewer Biek Tour 9/17/11. If you’d like more information, you can call me at 415-602-4094 or Greg Braswell 415-6094781 greg.braswell@sfdpw.org. Thanks! We’d love your input
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/07/NSJK1KUH3U.DTL
Ooooh, neat! Thanks for letting me know. Will ping you Monday.
johnny0
I thought you might possibly have an interest in a recent survey of a few geotagging projects (such as Historypin, OldSF, and WhatWasThere) being used to make historic images of San Francisco searchable in a map-based format, as well as a few of the issues related to such projects:
http://usingsfhistory.com/2011/09/17/using-maps-to-organize-historic-images/
hey johnnyo
my friend and i built a website called SkyChalk.com where people can post messages tied to any location – we’re getting some great messages around the city… you should check it out.
JohnnyO
In case you might happen to have an interest, I’ve briefly discussed your campaign for La Lengua on the most recent post of my blog, “Using San Francisco History,” entitled “Changing Place Names to Change Historical Memory.”
http://usingsfhistory.com/2011/12/04/changing-place-names-to-change-historical-memory/
thought you would enjoy these…inside the machine!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seat850/3192731568/
Hi, Burrito Justice! I’d like to get in touch with you. Love your blog!
Love looking at every pixel of those amazing pictures. As I’m in the Army stationed away from My love, My Home San Francisco. You make me feel the heart I lift in San Francisco. much love
Glad to be a portal for you!
We’ll be thinking of you Ramez. Hope you get home soon!
Here’s a page dedicated to spotting exotic cars in San Francisco.
http://www.exoticspotter.com/loc/san-francisco
Hey there,
I thought you guys might be interested in this new Mission event.
I came across a band (Huntinanny) playing from their van on Friday nights across the street from the Delirium bar.
They use a small generator to power their amps and lights and the drummer plays INSIDE the van. I have seen them every Friday night and they played for Critical Mass last night – pretty sweet.
Here’s their facebook thing: http://www.facebook.com/huntinanny