22nd and Mission Streets

Unfinished History

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Streetcar track reconstruction on Mission from 22nd Street, July 27, 1936.

Photo: SFMTA photo archive U16043


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22nd and Mission Streets, 1950s.


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22nd and Mission looking north, c. 1966.

Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.


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22nd and Mission, summer morning, 2013.

Photo: Chris Carlsson


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22nd and Mission, Oct. 2016, after a fire burned down the old Mission Market at 22nd earlier in 2016, and the new Vida condominium building is finished, and the New Mission Theater has been refurbished and reopened as a franchise of the Alamo Drafthouse. This might be one of the best corners to see the unfolding of gentrification in the Mission in a rather short time.

Photo: Chris Carlsson


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Northerly view on Mission at 22nd, 1924.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library


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Mission and 22nd, northwest corner, December 11, 1926.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library


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New Mission Theater and Giant Value, c. 1997.

Photo: Marina McDougal


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22nd and Mission looking north, c. 1966.

Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.


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22nd and Mission looking east at wig stylists, c. 1966.

Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.


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Mission Street between 22nd and 23rd, c. 1966

Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.


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Mission Street between 22nd and 23rd, c. 1966

Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.


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Mission Street between 22nd and 23rd, c. 1966

Photo: © Chuck Gould, all rights reserved.

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The old Mission Market at 22nd and Mission, January 2008, some years before it burned up twice and became a vacant lot around 2016.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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In the early 1990s punk bands began holding shows on the sidewalk at 22nd and Mission in front of the Leed's shoe store, taking the moniker from the old Who album, "Live at Leeds."

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Much loved local band "Rube Waddell" playing 'Live at Leeds' on November 11, 2006.

Video: Chris Carlsson