Chinatown
Photography gallery online
doggie diner
richard pelletier https://www.snappysan.com
Doggie Diner Designer Died
Harold Bachman, 84, the advertising artist who dreamed up the Doggie Diner heads, died Oct. 1st in Santa Rosa, Ca. In 1965, Bachman sketched the concept for the happy, rotating dachsund head to promote a restaurant, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The roadside icon, which once flourished in the Bay Area and was immortalized in Zippy the Pinhead comic strips, today can only be seen in one public place. In January 2005, a restored Doggie Diner head was added to the median strip of Sloat Boulevard near Ocean Beach in San Francisco. [10/12/2005 roadsideamerica.com]
the nymph of balch pond
I have meant what I have done. Or – I have often meant what I have done. Or – I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or – I have tried to mean what I was doing. (Jasper Johns) I confess here and now – when I was bobbing around in a canoe back in the summer of 1998, circling my prey again and again, I didn’t know that this was what I meant until today, October 19, 2010.
the anderson valley
I don’t know what it is, but the Anderson Valley, which lies north of San Francisco, and about an hour from the Pacific, is some sort of zone of pure magic and incomparable beauty. Whenever I am there, I start to vibrate from the intense and intimate beauty of the place. In the early 80’s I made a series of photographs of a few vineyards and wineries. Memory is fickle; I can’t pinpoint this location.
miyako, san francisco 1978
richard pelletier https://www.snappysan.com
Miyako came to San Francisco in the 1970’s as part of a wave of Japanese women who were emigrating to the States. Many of them, like Miyako, signed up for secretarial school only to find out that the secretarial school was, to a large extent, a sham. Miyako and I lived together for four years – at Alamo Square in San Francisco and then for a period in Oakland.
freeway park, seattle
