Outer Mission

Unfinished History

Mission Street from Cesar Chavez to the hilltop that straddles the east side of the Bernal Cut is one of the boundaries of the area dubbed La Lengua by our friend Burrito Justice, but has long been referred to as the "outer Mission" by locals.

North on Mission Street from (then) Army Street, August 1927.

Photo: Private Collection

1947 view north on Mission toward then-Army Street (now Cesar Chavez) before widening.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp27.50129

Mission Street north from Precita, 1926.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library, courtesy C.R. collection

View north from the front of the Sears building near Mission and Cesar Chavez (then Army), 1956.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp32.0091

Picket line at Sears, Roebuck & Co. along Mission at Army Street (now Cesar Chavez), c. 1950s.

Photo: Labor Archives and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University

Sears, Roebuck & Co., mid-1950s.

Photo: via Facebook

Mission Street south from 30th St., 1920.

Photo: Private Collection

Valencia and Mission, August 1944.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

North on Mission from Cortland Avenue, September 1925.

Photo: Private Collection

North on Mission from Highland Avenue, October 12, 1922.

Photo: Private Collection