UPDATE! In 1976, 50 years ago today, I painted a whale on a San Francisco firehouse. The S.F. Art and Fire Commissions got upset because I didn’t get permission. I just painted it. I told the story here. After I left S.F. the whale somehow became an icon for S.F. mods and scooterists. Scooterists, I’mContinue reading “Whale Mural Returns to San Francisco!”
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The Story Behind My San Francisco Whale Mural
Out of the blue I got an email from Aaron Stapley. Aaron rode with San Francisco’s mod scooterist scene in the 1980’s, a scene I knew nothing about. I lived and worked in SF in the 70’s. By 1980, I moved back to my native N.J. and was tending bar in Hoboken. Aaron asked ifContinue reading “The Story Behind My San Francisco Whale Mural”
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