From K-QED. I'll never forget the first time I went to San Francisco's Mission District for

Diad Los Mortos. Thousands of people packed the streets. The sounds of drums and grass filled the air.

People paraded by carrying flowers or candles. Some wore skeletal Katrina makeup. A few even walked on stilts. And the dancing. Everywhere

you'd look, dance troops would infer all these routines with a certain carefree precision. That made it all look so effortless.

Oh, and I can't forget the art.

Homemade signs, puppets, costumes, altars, you name it,

creativity was everywhere.

Diate Los Mortos in the mission is such an incredible expression of Latino culture and

community, and it feels as if this neighborhood has always

been like this. But as we'll learn today, not the case.

The story of how the mission grew to be the heart of the Latino community in San Francisco,

despite the city's efforts to stop it, well, that's an interesting tale.

And it's what we're talking about today on Bay Curious.

I'm Olivia Allen Price. Stay tuned.

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The Mission District is one of San Francisco's most famed neighborhoods, and one of its oldest.

It's lived a lot of lives, from the Yalamu people to the Spanish missionaries and then

waves of European immigrants. So then how did it become the center for the Latino community?

Bakery's intern Sebastian Minniebuchelli tells us the story. Today, San Francisco's Mission District would be considered a barrio.

That's Spanish for neighborhood.

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