My youth 70s/80s, a cholo on the calles, looking for action! Creased khakis, collared shirt (creased in front, and back), shoes shined like glass, hair combed, I was walking on cloud 9....rucas looking fine, smelling good,.....those were the days....now as I approach 60, all I have are memories..

Such a beautiful time and way. To the good times and the bad.

I just turned 60,and i must say those were the days cruising the boulevard back in the early 80's.Man, i miss those days .Puro desmadre,pero i wouldn,t trade those times for nothing.I,m so glad i made it through to remember the memories.

Man they don't make um firme like that anymore, smiled the whole time. Miss my teen years don't know how I got to this video but thank you because I needed to smile today. ❤❤❤

This era we will never get back glad I grew up in it great video !!

I was a dirty white boy from the Sunset Dist in the 80s but considering I was mixed I hung out with people in the Mission, great time back then. Ya I wore boots, Bens and a Derby jacket but homies in the mission didn't care.

My family first came to the mission back in the 50’s and we still reside out here ✊🏽. I’m a 2nd generation SF native. Being 24 years old I personally wasn’t able to experience the hoods golden era but at least I can watch videos and hear stories about it. Got to personally experience the last remnants, sad to see how it is now. Literally night and day but regardless i’m a proud missionero 💯

I respect the Stilo right on 👍I dnt Gang Bang . But the Culture is ours and it's still here all the way from TEXAS too . Firme oldies 👌

Marty and Alma Triantos at 1:12, they are still together and we’re neighbors after all these years!

Really cool it’s like a movie☝🏽❤️🙏🏽

thank you Ray for filming this and Sandy for the music..This is so so classic and video of a bygone era that was the best..

❤love this. Never gets old. I watch it over and over. ❤️🎶

Love this so much!

Goddamn it feels great to be a Chicano!!!

I was born in the 50's SF lived in the Mission until the 80's. Remember "Los Siete" which started "La Raza". Remember when the low riders start coming into the Mission from San Jo in the early 70's. Before low riders everything was lifted high riders with 50 series tires.Beautiful town. 24th street roots here.

This. Is a throwback. To the bone.

Thanks dude brings back memories 🤟🏽

My 65 Impala at 08:45. Brought back great memories. Born and raised in the Mission! Thanks for posting!

lowrider por vida here...cruising back in the 70's into the 80's on main street in santana oc orange county socal....santa ana oc bumper to bumper cruising my days.....still got my chuco52 chevy bel air hard top deluxe....

Please bring style and family back' we have lost all that. Miss those days. EL OSO X4 SFM yeah!!!

Miss them Days ..😞

Gracias for Sharing

I grew up with this music bc of my Carnal "s, the five oldest if we could only go back to the good Ole days were everyone hanging at the parks we use to be able to drink at park's and most of all the nice righteousness Haspinc, Latino, Latina, go to other city's enjoying Laughlin, Smiley meeting other people out of barbecues, party's I can go on but one question I have no names but why they say let the pass go.

V-V-T Varrio Viente Tres-23RD and Alabama and the Puente Vista locos-Tiny Malditos-The good old days in The Mission. Brings back so many good memories of a beautiful time with no cares in the world. To all the Homeboys from back in those days I hope you find yourselves doing well.PVL'SSleepyDroopySpiderChapoWeaselBig HappyLil SmileyBig SmileySteweyChucoRojoRatonLil OSO ChivoNanoMOUSE

Ray you got me drifting on a memory. Aint no place I'd rather be than in La Mission!!

This was before Northerners started acting black.

old school sfm! fuck thankyou for this. true representation of la mission, chaleeeeee! San Pancho native por vida!

Carlos Santana 😎

I grew up in the Mission when all the low rider and cholo scene started like in 1978. Over night all my Latino homies turned into chili’s and including me and I Chinese. Mission on weekend nights were exciting and everyone heading to 24th. to hangout. Also, lots of stupid stuff went on like fighting others that were from other barrios, At a young age when many were still kids, but trying to act like adults and didn’t have the wisdom to not sweat the small stuff,. Killing one so third hurt bc they grew up in another neighbor their parents chose snd over something small like mad dogging one another. It’s like toad rage without driving a car. Well, I’m glad I got out before I got stuck and took a different path from all my homies. After a homies put a knife on my neck, I realized that’s not the life I want for myself. Yeah it was fun and exciting at the beginning when you still were going to school, but what you gonna do after you finish school and how you gonna get a job support yourselves?! That’s when it got bad and reality set in. Most of us were not really prepared for adulthood.

my dad was a GRANDE Excelsior

I also love the low and slow nights we had fun.

Wow have times changed!@

Old School Norteños

Dope💯

R.IP Raul & Roberto Aguirre ..we miss you carnales Sf mision 😞🙏

Precita and Mission born and raised. Technically Bernal Heights. Memories of gente at Dolores Park and Jamestown. ✌

I love Oldies music & oldies cars ❤️

What a good video 👍💯🇲🇽

Crazy how crack and guns change everything

Ray, I want to deeply thank you for sharing this video. As a kid, I remember my cousins taking me along in their car a monte carlo on sundays.Video brought back memories.

Are any of you familiar with Dolores Park? That whole entire neighborhood back there is reputed to be HAUNTED... Cuz I used to attend Mission High School back in the 1990's, and both me and my fellow classmates (plus a few teachers and staff) have all seen a ghost there on the 4th floor... The ghost is that of a former teacher or student who usually appears to students who are in their Senior year or to janitors working there late at night. There are like some supply rooms and a few old disused classrooms or workshops on the 4th floor that were closed off while I was attending there back then. From the best of my memory; it appeared to look like a semi-transparent female figure of short stature, dressed in winter attire (a red and white Christmas-patterned sweater and brown bell-bottom corduroy pants), and sports a bowl-shaped pageboy hairstyle, holding a binder against her chest. She looked like someone from right out of the late 1960's or early 1970's. We couldn't quite see her face cuz she had her head down (as if she was in despair) and all her hair was covering it. This was during our lunch break period at noon, and we had noticed her standing down the hallway for quite some time. What's odd was that she was standing at the opposite end of the hallway from us, right by the stairway and away from the big glass windows that allowed for the sunlight to shine through on the 4th floor. She didn't move or even say a thing, and just stood there that whole time while we were there. It didn't strike us that she was a GHOST, until we had made our way back down to the ground floor by the courtyard area. And when we finally DID realize what we had just saw; we grew pale in the face, hauled our asses right outta there and ran all the way back to our classroom at like TWIN-TURBO SPEED!!! There are rumored to be ghosts also in the gym areas and even the locker/shower rooms as well, but I'm not gonna get into all that spooky shit. I heard that the school was built right over an Indian cemetery. Early builders who worked on building the school way back then, have even discovered the bones of Native Americans!

Dope ass video.... Mission 4 Life

This video makes Me Happy&sad My people are so full of Love and Life why do they Hate us For a Color. We're just one Huge Familia #fucktrump

28 and Church/Dolores St Fam Lopez, Ramirez, Rivera, Villasenor and I can go on and on.

WOW 😍😍😍😍 Post more! Gracias ❤

22nd HOGS Goofy and Blinky #1. You'll get a beating. 1971.👍🥇

these were the days when people were going to "La Fuente" Anyone remember those Days??????????????????

when it was the bomb 🤔🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

You brought me back to a time where I never got to experience this myself. The music was perfect. The videos and clips were great. Smooth transitions from beginning to end. This needs to be seen. What's the song called at the end? Thanks. #FreeLaMission

thats before ppl that barely moved in to the neighborhood called police on you for working on your 64 in front of your house that belonged to you and family for decades🤔

Always keep to your self Que no’

san fran in its finest

this is great ray

Nostalgic as fuck.... I was five or six during that time... But I remember my sister my cousins all them cruisin down La Mission.... It was all good I'll love... We lived on 17th and Van Ness..

Hey dude😎

man this is a dope video love to see my raza im from LosAngeles and one thing trips me out about my people there realy is no difference other than the color s you guys sport for reals raza its time to wake up stop all dat 13&14 bullshit to the side and let's ride for the BROWN.

omg thank you for this video beautiful memories do you guys remember dancing at the Underground on Polk St???

NOT SAMBA PA TIIIII 😭😭😭😭

5:59 the Eddy Munster look alike contest.

Much love 🧡from FR!$CO 415 RabbDogg baby RabbDogg 🐇🐕aka Rabbit 🐰🇲🇽🇺🇸

My cars

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My dads in this video 😢 “Curtis Castillo”

Love it! Now all the kids call themselves Ni..ass? What happened to our kids? What happen GOD?

What is the artwork at 10:45 I'd Love to have some knowledge on that

The '80's DETROIT!!!!

Islos 8 st I la Soto

Viva la Mission 1978 to 2007 here! #fuckgentrification

10:04 WEPA!

9:12 La Raza Park

Look up Andrew Wommack's A Better Way To Pray and Within Heaven's Gates by Rebecca Springer 😇

All I see is white yuppies in the Mission now.

Must be very early 80s

Uuu. Otra. Del. Tocayo. Carlos. Santana. Es. Tijuana. Brasa. O no. Uuummm

Hey dude where chicanos why use the word n .

Guys on the thumbnail are throwing up MS13. 40 members got indicted in SF a few years ago

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