Apr 16, 2024
Part 2 is the story of how
open-mindedness met opportunity. It's also an explanation for how
an ice cream store opened by someone named Mitchell came to carry
several flavors familiar to both the Filipino- and the
Latin-American community.
Brian shares the story: The
Asian flavors started around 1965 when a customer...
Apr 9, 2024
This oh-so-San Francisco story
begins with two brothers and a dairy farm at Noe and 29th
Street.
Larry Mitchell and his older
brother Jack opened
Mitchell's Ice Cream in 1953. Five years earlier,
the building that now houses the well-known ice cream shop was
going to be torn down for the widening of San Jose
Avenue....
Apr 2, 2024
In Part 2, we hear about
Chloe's first photo show, which took place at The Bearded Lady.
Chloe describes The Bearded Lady as a hub, a place to do and get
everything you could possibly need. It and the Kiki Gallery next
door were both on 14th Street near Guerrero.
Another queer artist, Cathy,
liked Chloe's show and...
Mar 26, 2024
Chloe Sherman's eyes are intense, but not the way you might think.
Chloe, who's been taking
photographs since she was young, was born in New York City. Her mom
and her mom's mom were both New Yorkers, and her dad was from
Chicago, with his family going back generations there. When she in
was grade school, the family...
Mar 19, 2024
In Part 2, we pick up right
where we left off in Part 1. Mark was walking around the Mission
taking down numbers of places with "for rent" signs. A resident in
one of those spots leaned out the window and invited Mark in to see
the place. Mark reveals that he and his wife still live in that
same apartment 20 years...