22nd and mission in San Francisco, California
Bermuda Triangle Mission and 22nd, San Francisco, California
There are several things that I would like to point out to you, this is the mission, welcome to the mission here at San Francisco. That is the clock to make out room in the Latin American Club is the Bermuda triangle essentially at this neighborhood. This is where people’s night disappears, it is where the Friday disappears.
Hey, I am Mark Carpel, I am a piano player and a composer, I want to show you a little bit about this one. So this is a make out room, everybody plays here. There is a tunnel down stairs that leads to Wicker park in Chicago, parts of Brooklyn, Lost for Legions and the Silver lake district in LA. Anybody who is traveling around as a musician will probably come here even if they are not playing here. So there is always a surprise, I mean you can really walk in some night, and here just like happen a few months ago. you walk in and there is Nora Jones singing. In this place it caused $5 to get in to and $3 for a beer.
Hello, how are you? Are you open tonight? I am going to bring my son for a hair cut okay. It is a great barbershop, they do not have candies so you tell your kid, I am going to take you to a barber shop and they are like, great lollipop and you have to bring your own lollipop. But it is still under tremendous barber and it is also a great immersion course for the kid. I can take him to super cuts in his life would become, just sad and normal. This is the Latin American club, you can get this benches by the window, you are in god shape here. This is a great place to sit and see who is coming in and decide whether you want to stay or whether you want to take off or not. There are some guys who are full lesbians that are showing.
Do you guys have a sign you could put that up there. Doc’s clock over here an example of like the relationship of Arsons when Jonathan Richmond who lives here in the neighborhood. When he was about to get married he was very nervous about getting married and he would wonder the streets playing the guitar and he would wonder the docks and he would sit in the back and he would sing to himself not in order to perform or to rehears but just to calm and steady his nerves. But this was a great equity of living in this neighborhood, is that the rest of us walked in, we were nervous about getting married and we could just sit at a table and watch this great rock song writer, this great punk rock icon just jamming away.
Neighborhood was for a long, long Irish and Italian the Hispanic population started growing after the war and became like a very big part of creating a new and really in a lot of ways more vibrant cultures. A few block from here is a studio that Columbia record used to run, it is CBS recording studio, and people like Santana and Herbie Hancock one of the amazing records were done that. That is a few blocks away but upstairs here was were the Paleo came from, I would not name the business but essentially was their front to pay radio people to play records for CBS.
One of the most famous people from the mission is Carlos Santana, just in the last few years the surges of his career he went around the neighborhood hoping to shoot videos here next door at the make out room. He offered him thousands of dollars, they refused the offer because they kind of worried that, that would be the step before becoming a sports bar.
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