Mission Yuppie Eradication Project

Posted by Serg on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 9:38am
Categorized: Douchebaggery
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This showed up when I was facebooking one time.

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Tuffy's picture
Tuffy said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:20am (link)

I remember that when Foreign Cinema opened. They used to give diners those remote buzzers to let them know when a table was ready and send them over to Doc's Clock. If a bartender saw your buzzer they'd refuse to serve and kick you out.

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Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 6:01pm (link)

Oh man. Yet another reason to love Doc's Clock!

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Jay B. said on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:23pm (link)

I remember when most times you walked by Doc's Clock there was some poor Latino dude laying on the sidewalk with blood coming out of his head. That was a scary ass place, pre-gentrification.

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I don't think before I type said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:23am (link)

well since this note is not written in Spanish, my guess is we got us one set of newbies getting mad at a second set of newbies

I want to post one right under it, in Spanish, declaring war on hispters and fixies, just for the comedy...

Hoboking's picture
Hoboking said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:41am (link)

"Declaring war on hipsters and fixies" is so 2010 - just saying. I hated track bikes before everyone started jumping on that fad.

That the Yuppie Eradication Project was an interesting era, though I gotta agree that it was reaction by 1st wave 'gentry' against later waves of better off 'gentry' - In the larger sense though wasn't the Mission first a Polish neighborhood, then Irish, then Spanish speaking? Should the note be in Polish and Gallic as well as Spanish? Ultimately I suppose it would have to be in 16th Century Spanish again and finally Ohlone (is there a written Ohlone?) before we get back to solid claim of being authentic 'Missionite'?

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I don't think before I type said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 12:32pm (link)

ha ha, you so funny! the sign depicted at the top of this post is directly ripped from an identical (by memory) whine from 10 years ago (the first dotcom boom), and i don't mean just the attitude, but the actual text.

i'm guessing some mission twentysomething had a one-nighter with an oldster who had it on their fridge.

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Old Mission Neighbor said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:57am (link)

Me too!

Where is this posted? Would love to post a notice in Spanish, one in Polish, and one in Gaelic underneath it.

I don't think before I type's picture
I don't think before I type said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:48am (link)

The Irish were in the Mission before the current crop of Mexican and El Salvadorean immigrants. I would like to see one in Gaelic.

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O'Leary said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 8:12pm (link)

Plus, you politely decided not to mention that the Irish generously gave Spanish names to some of the main streets of the Mission; certainly a kindness on their part.

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Old Mission Neighbor said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:59am (link)

Also, this is nothing new:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/244259689/

surlyinsf's picture
surlyinsf said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:09am (link)

think this guy is a bit out of touch with the yuppie cars--seems like its more bmws and audis now.

relatedly, i'd like to start a fund to buy free drinks for homeless folks at all the new (and old) marina bars popping up in the mission. tacolicious. medjool. dr teeth. ugh...

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Mark Pritchard said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:10am (link)

Yeah, this is from the first dot-com boom. I know the guy who put these up -- way back then.

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JC said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:27pm (link)

What happened to that guy anyway? I remember when those went up too, my SUV used to get vandalized (I used it to deliver cakes for my dad's bakery).

I don't think before I type's picture
I don't think before I type said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:33pm (link)

What's funny is how many of the Angry 20-Somethings of that time now work for Apple.

I don't think before I type's picture
I don't think before I type said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 2:22pm (link)

Yep, you can tell its old because it mentions the Slanted Door which has been gone from Valencia for what, 15 years?

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Sometimes I think before I type said on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 2:50pm (link)

It was a white guy, right?

Eric Gregory said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:19am (link)

Guess all that yuppie money wasn't enough to save Ti Couz or keep Slanted Door in the Mission.

JC's picture
JC said on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 1:23pm (link)

Slanted Door wanted to expand but ran into problems with neighbors and zoning, so he moved to the Ferry Building and the Westfield. Charles Phan (the owner) is now using the Valencia location for his new restaurant, "Wo Hing General Store." No idea what happened to Ti Couz.

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I don't think before I type said on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:41pm (link)

http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mission_Yuppie_Eradication_Project

I don't think before I type's picture
I don't think before I type said on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 1:36pm (link)

It reads like parody now.

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njudah said on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:27am (link)

a quaint artifact from dot bomb one. Didn't work out so well for 'em though.

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