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San Francisco’s version of Hachiko
A bronze dog statue sits beside an abandoned blue suitcase on a Mission District sidewalk — an odd, oddly touching scene.
Walked past this on a regular block in the Mission and had to stop. A bronze dog statue sits on the sidewalk, and right next to it, a blue carry-on suitcase.
Nobody was around to claim either one. The pairing looked staged, like someone left a dog waiting outside a store the way Hachiko waited at Shibuya Station, except here the owner never showed and the suitcase stayed too.
I don’t know if the statue is a permanent fixture or something dropped off by a neighbor decorating the block. Either way, it’s the kind of small, unexplained scene that makes walking around the Mission worth it — you never know what’s on the next corner.