A few days ago, someone broke into the SF Bay Guardian’s parking lot at 135 Mississippi and stole their iconic van. SFBG posted on their own blog about its disappearance and asked readers to send in any tips on the thievery.
“…it’s ten years old, it’s all beat up — and it has the Guardian logo all over it and a Best of the Bay mural on the side. Hard to hide. It’s value is probably more sentimental than economic at this point, but we miss it — after all, we used the van as the cover of our Best of the Bay issue back in 1999, when it was brand new. We commissioned the van-mural, designed by Tim Racer at Racer-Reynolds Illustration and painted by Rich Ayer at Signmakers, and we’d hate to see the artwork chopped up or painted over.”
The good news is that the van was found Wednesday morning by the SFPD on the 100 block of 25th Ave. According to SFGate, a teacher from Corte Madera found the van.
“Kevin Mahoney, 35, says he was heading to San Francisco to meet a friend for lunch. Around 10:30 a.m., less than an hour after reading about the pilfered vehicle on SFGate, he reportedly spotted the vehicle parked in its full artistic glory on 25th Avenue near El Camino Del Mar in the tony neighborhood of Sea Cliff.
“It stood out like a sore thumb,” said Mahoney.
He alerted police soon after. “I was happy to be able to put closure to the whole thing,” he said.
Sarah B.
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