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I moved to San Francisco in early 2007 and found a room in the Mission for like 600 bucks. I had a job lined up already (which was being phone support for phone sex operators and phone psychics, which I could write a whole thread on) and the guy who created the Mill, Josie Baker (his real last name!) was good friends and a prior tenant at my place, which was with 5 other people who were all great - dog walkers, artists, etc. Obviously this was before everyone not in tech got gradually priced out. Josie was one of the nicest dudes I ever met, and he busted his rear end to create that place. He just fell in love with bread and would use generously-shared ovens when places weren't using them and would bake bread at like 2am to 5am and just sell loaves personally to people, and just worked up from there. When a dude you like succeeds in something he's passionate about, it's a Good Thing. I went there when I still lived there and bought a toast. It's good. 4 dollar toast itself isn't the problem - it's far more complicated than that - but it could be regarded as a symbol for what cost expectations continually are building in SF - ie no poors allowed.
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Germstore posted:He didn't bake the bread though. He bought bread from a bakery, which sandwich shops do as well, but I would argue that sandwiches are far more transformative than toast. What? He absolutely bakes the bread. Are you just straight up deciding that he doesn't, that's the case, and barfing it out online? Did you miss the giant ovens in the back of the store in that video? C'MON SON BREAD SON
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