Marko

It was said he was good guy. Let the local families go on credit until they could come due. This was a store that became a community corner store. Jerry for one helped with the carpentry building grain bins and such. I missed out on it since I was up in Santa Rosa at that time.

Now I can't be sure. I didn't think of it at the time so didn't ask. Most of the larger Mom and Pops in the Mission were owned by Palestinians including the one down on Precita Street at the bottom of the hill. So if Safeway was off limits due to the strike, and most of the markets were off limits to people who didn't want to shop from Palestinians, because of the conflict between them and Israel, the farmer's market became a suitable option. Actually never made a definite connection but it was wondered about by myself and some of my friends.

I lived on a hill. The street outside my house was steep and could be seen across certain segments of the Mission, if any should care to look up there. Marko thought it would be cute to spray paint a huge radical slogan on the street there just outside my window, and then again on another section further up the hill, the idea being, it could be seen from down in the Mission. Radical advertising. I went to his house to see if he had painted any slogans in front of his house. Well of course not. So I asked him how come he didn't spray paint the street in front of his house. How come he picked my house. I don't really remember all his excuses.

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