Street performers outside 24th St. Mission BART on the night the San Francisco Giants won the World Series.
Fireworks on the street as the Mission District fills with partiers celebrating the Giants winning the World Series.
Mission Street goes nuts after Giants sweep the World Series. Three shirtless guys are ready to hoop it up while a man with a broom and a bottle of liquor passes by.
As I was walking toward Mission Street, there were two guys in front of me, trying to hide a fat bottle of liquor in their pants. Failing that, they reassured each other that before the end of the night, they’d make friends with someone with a cup. No mention was made of a mixer.
At the bottom of the eighth, we opened the front door so we could hear San Francisco cheering for every step the Giants came closer to winning the World Series. Minutes before the final out, random shouts and cheers could be heard from people who couldn’t contain their excitement. Our friend Patrick knew what the score was just by walking through the Mission.
This picture was taken a half hour after the Giants won, as people were still starting to fill the streets.
San Francisco Giants Sweep World Series
So I don’t know what it was like where you were at 9:30 last night, but people were going nuts in the Mission. Minutes after the Giants won the World Series, there were people setting off fireworks on Shotwell St. This was still early, about half an hour after the Giants won, so people were just starting to take over the streets. Still, they already had a meter maid close off driving access to Mission Street. There were still cars, some confused but mostly fans cruising through, honking and waving flags. It didn’t take more than ten minutes after the win to have helicopters hovering.
PS, Go Giants!
So this is fun. The first picture is a close-up of one of the political murals on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, where someone put a sticker up that makes the girl look like she is wearing glasses. Then the next day I saw another one in the Mission, in Clarion Alley. Another full-sized mural with sticker-glasses stuck on the dog in the corner. In graffiti art, the work itself often is the signature but what is fun is that the artist here seems to require someone else’s art to give it context. Instead of just sticking them everywhere, they are deliberately adding the glasses to the art already there.
You could go make some stickers like that, and carry them everywhere. But yours should be something else: A ring? A weapon? a pepper spray cop? What would you add to the murals and signs and billboards in your city?
