"Chris Carlsson, long-time grassroots historian and guide to San Francisco's lost, forgotten and overlooked histories, takes participants on a walk around the old industrial sites of the North Mission. Pungent odors such as ammonia, baking bread, and roasting hops, once common, are now only memories. We'll visit breweries, bakeries, and an old baseball field site, uncovering stories of how the underlying ecology shaped the kinds of work that came to be done in this once-thriving neighborhood crisscrossed by railroads and streetcars."
"Ultimately the dialectic interplay of nature, immigration, capitalism, and unplanned development brought a certain neighborhood into being, that is now only visible in the ghosts and remnants of the built past."
Participants walk through old industrial sites in San Francisco’s North Mission, where familiar odors like ammonia, baking bread, and roasting hops once marked daily life. Stops include breweries, bakeries, and an old baseball field site. Railroads and streetcars crisscrossed the neighborhood, influencing how industry developed and what kinds of labor became common. Underlying ecology affected production and the character of work. Immigration and capitalism interacted with unplanned development to form the neighborhood over time. The present landscape shows the area mainly through ghosts and remnants of the built past.
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