Mission Terrace is a hood in the southern part of the city that's sandwiched between The Excelsior District to the east, and Sunnyside, Ingleside, City College, and interstate 280 to the west. It's circled in green here:
Up next are Sunnyside, Ingleside and City College, which are those other circled areas...but first:
Your soundtrack, some local music:
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This corner store delivers...anything, until 1 am. You need a pizza, a sandwich, some matches, and a bottle of shampoo? No problem:
This corner store makes some of the best sandwiches in the city, though you'd never know it passing by:
A tasty example:
Balboa Park Station, which is a Muni train yard, the end/beginning of the line for the J, K, and M lines, and the 26 and 36 bus lines, as well as a BART station:
That little passageway on the right is what i refer to as "piss alley":
The old Muni headquarters:
Smoke that blunt:
Some more local music to honor the blunt smoking:
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Lamartine street, site of last year's
van body, one of many recent embarrassments for the SFPD:
San Jose Avenue Muni stop interlude:
This section of San Jose Avenue was originally intended to be a freeway that was planned to cut through the middle of the Mission District. that was stopped thankfully, and it bacame part of San Jose Ave. People drive on it like a freeway though, which makes sense as it looks like one, and many people use it to get onto 280.
Norteno gang graffiti, in red. The X4 is a bastardization of XIV, which stands for N, the 14th letter of the alphabet. The S's are crossed out becuause their rivals are the Surenos, or "Scraps/sewer rats/suratas" as the nortes say...you sometimes see S's crossed out on street signs in Norteno territory:
Looking up towards Glen Park:
Riding the J Church north up San Jose:
Past Bernal Heights, and towards the Mission and Noe Valley:
Sgt. John V. Young street leads up to the Ingleside Police Station, which is in the middle of Balboa Park. It's named after an officer who was killed when members of the Black Liberation Army attacked the station in 1971: