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Nice stop. There's good street parking and it's very close to the zoo and the beach. It's really the head of a dog chef. Quirky!
[Bart, 06/17/2014]Last Doggie Diner Head:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- Sloat Blvd., San Francisco, CA
- Directions:
- Median strip of Sloat Boulevard near Ocean Beach at 45th Avenue. The head faces east.
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 dachshund 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]- San Francisco, California - Doggie Diner
The Doggie head is BACK! He had blown over in a wind storm, but he's back up on his pole in front of the Carousel, with a beautiful new coat of paint!
[kdoyle, 04/18/2004] - San Francisco, California - Doggie Diner Dog Head
The Doggie Diner opposite the San Francisco Zoo on Sloat Avenue has been a favorite eating and Dog Head viewing place for years. Recently this last remaining Dog Head has been under threat. The nursery next door bought the site and wanted to remove the Dog Head. Dog Head lovers from all over protested and the Dog Head was saved. Mother Nature then took action and toppled the Dog Head on its fiberglass nose during a windstorm.
The City of San Francisco went to work using other salvaged (saved) Dog Heads, owned by a fellow in Emeryville, as patterns. The Sloat Avenue Dog Head has been restored and placed back on his pedestal across from the zoo and next to the evil nursery.
[Tim Timberlake, 07/16/2001] - San Francisco, California - Last Doggie Diner Head Restored
The Last Doggie Dinner Head, which fell over in a storm and crushed its nose on April 2, 2001, was remounted Saturday July 1, 2001. The location for the head is across from the main San Francisco Zoo entrance on Sloat Blvd.
[Stephen Spenser, 07/15/2001]
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