22nd and Mission Streets

Unfinished History

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

22nd and Mission Streets, 1950s.

22nd and Mission looking north, c. 1966.

22nd and Mission, summer morning, 2013.

Photo: Chris Carlsson

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

Northerly view on Mission at 22nd, 1924.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

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

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

New Mission Theater and Giant Value, c. 1970s.

Photo: Shaping San Francisco

22nd and Mission looking north, c. 1966.

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

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

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

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

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