https://foundsf.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=La_Llorona%3A_The_Twelve_Evictions 2026-05-09T14:21:46Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.45.3 https://foundsf.org/index.php?title=La_Llorona:_The_Twelve_Evictions&diff=32646&oldid=prev 2021-04-25T04:47:23Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:47, 24 April 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l20">Line 20:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Once upon a time, long before the Mission was El Barrio and a hipster incubator, it was simply a watershed.  From the twin mounds to the west, a myriad of rivulets and creeks tumbled into the crevices below.  The most robust creek coursed east towards the middle of the valley, engorging at the site of a spring and feeding a tidal lagoon in the lowlands.  The overflow of this lagoon leaked out into another river that marked the northern boundary of the valley.  This river would have continued bounding down east into an estuary, along the route today of 14th Street under the highway overpass.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Once upon a time, long before the Mission was El Barrio and a hipster incubator, it was simply a watershed.  From the twin mounds to the west, a myriad of rivulets and creeks tumbled into the crevices below.  The most robust creek coursed east towards the middle of the valley, engorging at the site of a spring and feeding a tidal lagoon in the lowlands.  The overflow of this lagoon leaked out into another river that marked the northern boundary of the valley.  This river would have continued bounding down east into an estuary, along the route today of 14th Street under the highway overpass.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The estuary opened onto the pungent salty inner bay, wiggling with amphibians and fish, and thick with reeds. The Spaniards wrote testimonies of the skies that blackened with migrating flocks, while otters, bears, and the First People – who we think of as Ohlone – harvested the mollusk-fruits of the bay. There would have been shellmounds, here, near the creeks and seasonal lagoon of the Mission, but these were disturbed a long time ago. We know from other shellmounds that they are composed of refuse: mussels, clams, cockleshells, and oyster shells, interspersed with ash from cooking; mammal bones of rodents, rabbits, deer, elk, bear, and sea and river otters; fish bones; bird bones, mostly of duck and geese but also egrets and herons. These bones alone reward us with a memory of a world in which non-human species dominated this place.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The estuary opened onto the pungent salty inner bay, wiggling with amphibians and fish, and thick with reeds. The Spaniards wrote testimonies of the skies that blackened with migrating flocks, while otters, bears, and the First People – who we think of as Ohlone – harvested the mollusk-fruits of the bay. There would have been <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco|</ins>shellmounds<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>, here, near the creeks and seasonal lagoon of the Mission, but these were disturbed a long time ago. We know from other shellmounds that they are composed of refuse: mussels, clams, cockleshells, and oyster shells, interspersed with ash from cooking; mammal bones of rodents, rabbits, deer, elk, bear, and sea and river otters; fish bones; bird bones, mostly of duck and geese but also egrets and herons. These bones alone reward us with a memory of a world in which non-human species dominated this place.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The mounds are sometimes called “kitchen middens” or refuse piles, but these piles are more than just trash. Bay Area archealogist Evan Elliot explains, “They are richer in information than the landscape itself. Some shellmounds are deliberate monumental constructions, indicating a ceremonial gathering place for funerals or feasts, or an elevated village site that could also serve as vantage point to track fires or hunt. Other middens were landfills aimed towards surviving tidal living near a river or a marsh.” […] Archeologist Jessica Tudor adds, “With such shellmounds, the Ohlone seem to be saying, ‘We made this. Our ancestors are here. We are of here’.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The mounds are sometimes called “kitchen middens” or refuse piles, but these piles are more than just trash. Bay Area archealogist Evan Elliot explains, “They are richer in information than the landscape itself. Some shellmounds are deliberate monumental constructions, indicating a ceremonial gathering place for funerals or feasts, or an elevated village site that could also serve as vantage point to track fires or hunt. Other middens were landfills aimed towards surviving tidal living near a river or a marsh.” […] Archeologist Jessica Tudor adds, “With such shellmounds, the Ohlone seem to be saying, ‘We made this. Our ancestors are here. We are of here’.”</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l160">Line 160:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 160:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In January 2014, Sandy Cuadra received a posthumous Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) Hall of Fame Award from the City.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In January 2014, Sandy Cuadra received a posthumous Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) Hall of Fame Award from the City.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Mission]] [[category:Latino]] [[category:Housing]] [[category:Gentrification]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:1776-1823]] [[category:Spanish period]] [[category:Mexican]]  [[category:Technology]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Mission]] [[category:Latino<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] [[category:Indigenous</ins>]] [[category:Housing]] [[category:Gentrification]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:1776-1823]] [[category:Spanish period]] [[category:Mexican]]  [[category:Technology]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:46, 24 April 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l160">Line 160:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 160:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In January 2014, Sandy Cuadra received a posthumous Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) Hall of Fame Award from the City.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In January 2014, Sandy Cuadra received a posthumous Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) Hall of Fame Award from the City.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Mission]] [[category:Latino]] [[category:Housing]] [[category:Gentrification]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:1776-1823]] [[category:Spanish <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Period</del>]] [[category:Mexican]]  [[category:Technology]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Mission]] [[category:Latino]] [[category:Housing]] [[category:Gentrification]] [[category:1960s]] [[category:1970s]] [[category:1980s]] [[category:1990s]] [[category:2000s]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:1776-1823]] [[category:Spanish <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">period</ins>]] [[category:Mexican]]  [[category:Technology]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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