Another View: Cruising Mission Street

A special report for KPIX-TV's 'All Together Now' series called 'Another View: Cruising Mission Street', produced by Richard Saiz and presented by Belva Davis, which first aired on Ch.5 in the Bay Area on July 26, 1980, at 7:00pm. Davis introduces this story about the lowrider car culture in San Francisco's Mission District by describing Mission Street as: "A cruising playground for Latino youths ... also a battleground between police and young people." She goes onto explain how: "In the past year, Mission Street ... has become a popular cruising spot. But then a conflict developed over a 6-block stretch of Mission [20th-26th], that's become a regular cruising Mecca for Latino teenagers." Includes scenes of 21-year old Valerie Tulier-Laiwa lowriding on Mission Street with the Frisco Latin Queens, San Francisco's first all women lowriding car club and explaining why she loves this so much. There are interviews with: Lee Cameron and Ralph Piper (merchants); George Rosko (police); George Jeffrey (Police Captain of Mission station); Roberto Hernandez (youth worker); Patricia Martinez (local resident and mother); Hadley Roff (Deputy Mayor) and Ricardo Hernandez (Mayor's Office). There are also views of street sweeps by police, multiple arrests and debate surrounding a proposed "barrio patrol concept", in which the community would attempt to "patrol itself." This program was edited by Richard Saiz, directed by John Perry, with camera by J. Dakin Grahame. The associate producer was Francee Covington, with art by Terry Stelling. The executive producer was Galen Daily. Note that this program won a local Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement, Artistic/Historical/Cultural/Religious Series." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.