Good overview of the place. It’s on my short list of places I recommend to visitors.
Totally off-topic but I have to chuckle over this:
"Eighteenth, between Guerrero and Dolores, is a top-notch food block. "
Back in the late 80s and early 90s people thought we were taking our lives in our hands heading to the Mission 
So it still cracks me up. 'Course people hadn’t heard of Noe Valley either.
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My friends and I were all living in the Mission in the 70s and thought it was hilarious when Marina / Marin nitwits would talk about it as “the barrio,” as if it were all latinos rather than the extremely diverse neighborhood it was. German mortuaries, Irish bars, Anna’s Danish Cookies, Lucca Ravioli Co., Lucky Pork Market, Weston Wear, Bombay Bazaar, Good Vibrations, the Roxie … die, yuppie scum.
I think real estate agents started calling it Noe Valley when bankers and lawyers started displacing working class families and hippies. Before that it was just part of the Mission.
Ah, yes, Good Vibrations! I would buy newly divorced women friends gifts from there - lol. We used to love Fina Estampa, a Peruvian place, that moved to Van Ness.
I met Bob in '86 and there were a lot of lesbians in NV at the time. He paid $115k for our house in '81. About 15 years ago I was offered $700/mo to rent out our really crummy, small garage.