CCSF Enrollment Campaign Mission Cafes Early Morning

I took some CCSF posters and late-start class information to Mission Cafes on March 19 after 7:00 AM.and later sent an update to those running the Enrollment Campaign so they'd know which cafes have disappeared and what they hours are for those still there.  I also wanted them to know which cafes have a community bulletin board.  That would be a good list to have for spots all over the city.

The Revolution Cafe

3248 22nd St., 94110

opens at 9:00 AM.  

Cafe La Boheme

3318 24th Street

(What a change since the 1970's and 1980's, when I'd go there occasionally--fascinated by how it was the demarcation line between the Mission with all its color and people of color (mostly Latinos but soon also Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian) and its less colorful people--those in Noe Valley.  I always thought the Mission was the one place in San Francisco that wasn't repeated.  I thought Noe Valley was repeated in West Portal--and maybe there wass another neighborhood I knew before West Portal.  But the Mission was the Mission was the Mission--until the Cafe Boheme transitioned it into Noe Valley.  

Anyway, this much-expanded, much larger cafe opens at 6:00 AM and has a community bulletin board:  Their bulletin board was much more up-to-date than most I see, so I couldn't take down a lot.  There was a poster announcing Tom Hayden's talk on March 18, so I was able to find room for City College.  

I thought because  Cafe la Boheme was so close to the Mission Campus that there might already be flyers at Cafe Boheme, but there weren't any until I put these up.

Cafe Venice, which was once across the street from the Cafe la Boheme,  is no longer at

3325 24th St., 94110  Instead this is what I saw:

It's that corner spot and has been closed for about a year, the nice employee in Cafe Boheme told me when I asked.  But it was fun to see La Mejor Bakery with both Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and Leprechauns on the window display!

Cafe Taboo

600 York/18th Street

opens at 7:00. --and it really was open.  I gave a poster and some material to a very nice young woman working there.  She gave me the manager's e-mail address so I could contact her about more material.

Musca Colombian Fusion and Cafe (Mucisa on the list) has changed its name and has been Nano for about 6 months.  

Nano Cafe

564 S Van Ness Avenue/17th

The man working there, who I think was the manager and maybe the owner, said he'd put up the poster when I offered to do it myself.  I'll go back with material for the summer and fall semesters and see.

It's really great when a cafe/laundromat/bookstore/whatever has a community bulletin board because there are generally a lot of past-the-date posters that the managers will let us take down to make room for CCSF.  I always talk to the managers, but some seem more sincere than others when they say they'll put up the poster themselves.