Posted on 02/28/2024 8:04:06 AM PST by lowbridge
Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront , recent street conditions have decimated local businesses large and small from retail pharmacies to restaurants , block after block of vacant store fronts is what mission street has been reduced to.
In this video I’m walking the downtown part of the mission, what I found is a transformation of the city no one could have imagined just a few years ago.
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When you are working in your living room, you don’t need a brown bag to grab lunch from your fridge.
Here is Union Square and everything is closed, except Macy’s, which will close next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB3IU8uwb2k
I gather that Mission was once a thriving shopping area?
Ny Venture Capitalist relative got out of SF about 7 years ago, I guess he saw what was coming. Moved to Boulder, CO, heh.
Still one of my favorite shows.
I have the DVDS and accompanying CD soundtrack that came out a few years ago.
Communists and SJWs come first, then societal collapse and criminals follow.
We lived 40 miles south on the Peninsula and went to SF 3 or 4 times a year, too. About eight years ago, our daughter and boyfriend took us out to dinner at a restaurant near the Opera House. That was the last time we set foot there. Walking the streets at night near City Hall is just too scary.
I lived in the Cow Hollow district for about a year when I got out of college in 1973. It was a wonderful place. Clean, safe, beautiful, well-kept, graffiti free. You knew to keep out of the Western Addition, Hunter’s Point and the Tenderloin. I’d moved from the Northeast and had spent time in NYC, Philly, and Baltimore and always thought to myself “Those crap cities in the east - what a mess. I’m glad that can’t happen to San Francisco.”
It is SO sad to see SF swirling down the toilet.
Roy’s was a wonderful restaurant, my favorite, office lunches, date-night and to take visitors.
The thing about virtue *signalling* is that it is imaginary virtue. Once people really believe and act on the signal, everything falls apart.
Didn’t know Nick Nolte was in that show.
diversity is our strength.....
San Francisco can be fixed.
A mega earthquake will take out the trash.
My first thot was the scene thru the periscope of the sub from “ On The Beach”.
Reminds me of Havana, Cuba.
Beautiful architecture, falling down, piles of garbage and dilapitated buildings everywhere.
I think a lot of people lose sight of just how old this place is. Mission Street, aka El Camino Real, with Mission Dolores est. 1776. On the modern street grid Mission Dolores is actually a few blocks off Mission St. Construction on the oldest extant building onsite was begun in 1782. The Presidio, ie, fort, was built on the other side of the peninsula commanding the bay entrance, also in 1776, and the mission on this side because it’s not as cold, some agriculture could be practiced though the sandy soil is poor, and to be away from the direct influence of the rough and tumble soldiery
The posters suggesting this was brought about by developers so they could snap up properties at a discount have absolutely no evidence to support that assertion and, in my view, they’re wrong. Rather, the rot engendered by the city’s politics is metastasizing out of downtown. The Mission District is reverting figuratively to the desolate waste land it started out as
The politicians are not being up front about the harsh truth that the cost to renovate the decayed infrastructure in these cities far exceeds any return on the investment.
It's even worse because with the exception of healthcare and maybe education, industries are better served outside of a city.
-Accommodation
-Accommodation and Food Services
-Administrative and Support Services
-Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
-Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
-Air Transportation
-Ambulatory Health Care Services
-Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
-Animal Production
-Apparel Manufacturing
-Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
-Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
-Broadcasting (except Internet)
-Building Material and Garden Equipment and Supplies Dealers
-Chemical Manufacturing
-Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
-Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
-Construction
-Construction of Buildings (if you even need them)
-Couriers and Messengers
-Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
-Crop Production
-Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
-Education and Health Services
-Educational Services
-Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
-Electronics and Appliance Stores
-Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
-Finance and Insurance
-Financial Activities
-Fishing, Hunting and Trapping
-Food Manufacturing
-Food Services and Drinking Places
-Food and Beverage Stores
-Forestry and Logging
-Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
-Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
-Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing
-Gasoline Stations
-General Merchandise Stores
-Goods-Producing Industries
-Grievance Industry (large numbers of payees in cities but not the payers nor overseers)
-Health Care and Social Assistance (large numbers of payees but not payers in cities)
-Health and Personal Care Stores (large numbers of payees but not payers in cities)
-Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
-Hospitals (heavily controlled by government socialized medicine)
-Information
-Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
-Internet Publishing and Broadcasting
-Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing
-Leisure and Hospitality
-Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)
-Machinery Manufacturing
-Management of Companies and Enterprises
-Manufacturing
-Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
-Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
-Mining (except Oil and Gas)
-Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
-Miscellaneous Manufacturing
-Miscellaneous Store Retailers
-Monetary Authorities - Central Bank
-Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
-Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers
-Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
-Natural Resources and Mining
-Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
-Nonstore Retailers
-Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
-Oil and Gas Extraction
-Other Information Services
-Other Services (except Public Works)
-Paper Manufacturing
-Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
-Personal and Laundry Services
-Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
-Pipeline Transportation
-Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
-Postal Service
-Primary Metal Manufacturing
-Printing and Related Support Activities
-Private Households
-Professional and Business Services
-Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
-Publishing Industries (except Internet)
-Rail Transportation
-Real Estate
-Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (if you even need it or it isn't government operated)
-Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
-Rental and Leasing Services
-Repair and Maintenance
-Retail Trade
-Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation
-Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
-Service-Providing Industries
-Social Assistance (mostly government run. It's a big minus, not an plus.)
-Specialty Trade Contractors
-Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores
-Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
-Support Activities for Mining
-Support Activities for Transportation
-Telecommunications
-Textile Mills
-Textile Product Mills
-Trade, Transportation, and Utilities
-Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (Public transit is subsidized and still loses money. Needed less as industries leave cities.)
-Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
-Transportation and Warehousing
-Truck Transportation
-Utilities
-Warehousing and Storage
-Waste Management and Remediation Services
-Water Transportation
-Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers
-Wholesale Trade
-Wood Product Manufacturing
State will take it. No successful developers would build in SF with the current political leadership.
Progressive/commie ideas come with a price... And yeah, Cuba's a great example...
I like watching that show “The Streets of San Francisco” for two reasons.
One, it has the most bitchinest theme song ever for a TV show, and second, it shows the city as it looked in the 70s, which is when I used to spend time there.
Another Democrat success!
Nah, Streets of San Francisco had lots of guest stars, but those pictures were of that show, then of Dirty Harry, then of Nolte from “48 hours”.
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