I thought I would make my way to the center of the Mission at 24th St. thinking that is the other possibility for a parade spot. There was a police barricade and the street was blocked. I could see a crowd and a booth in front of the Mission Cultural Center. As I got closer the police barricades came down and traffic resumed on Mission St. That pretty much confirmed that I had missed any parade. There were people dressed as skeletons all over the place. They were all white people. The few Latino's that were there were watching the white people dressed up to celebrate the Mexican custom. There are a lot of reminders that many people have died here in the past two decades. Every thing from leather fetish clothes in thrift stores to the number of gay men wearing white face for Day of the Dead constantly drive home that a plague has hit hard.