Travel Reference
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Mission Dolores
Ahead is the city's first building: adobe
Mission Dolores
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, built by some
5000 native Ohlone and Miwok - glimpse the Miwok memorial hut through the mission
fence on Chola Lane.
Women's Building Maestrapiece
Swing left on 18th St, and you'll come face to face with goddesses and Nobel Prize win-
ners in massive wraparound murals at SF's trailblazing
Women's Building
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.
826 Valencia
Back on Valencia, you'll spot the Chris Ware cartoon mural and storefront art installations
of
826 Valencia
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, the world's premier (OK, only) pirate supply store. Duck
inside for eye-patches, scurvy remedies (aka lemondrops) and America's leading (alright,
only) fish theater.
Dog-Eared Books
Pause to pay respects to bygone celebrities at
Dog-Eared Books
(900 Valencia St) - the
front window features hand-drawn obituary cartoons of luminaries from Liz Taylor to
Susan Sontag.
Ratio 3
International art-fair buzz begins at
Ratio 3
(2831 Mission St), a trippy stark-black gallery
that delivers on its promise to 'bring vastness to mind' with Mitzi Pederson's shattered,
glittered concrete and Ara Peterson's optical-illusion waves.
Balmy Alley
Head down 24th St and into
Balmy Alley
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, where you may recognize assas-
sinated activist Archbishop Romero and Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo among the colorful
characters illuminating garage doors in this mural-covered backstreet.
