Baby Doll Arm

1979

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The image depicts Herb Caen’s column from the San Francisco Chronicle of Friday, January 24th, 1986.

Friday in Frisco

      APOLOGIES for the above, but I can’t resist alliteration. Besides, “Fog Over Frisco” was a fair flick and “Hello, Frisco, Hello!” was a sprightly tune and if somebody wants to open a nightspot called the Frisco Disco, go right ahead ... Meanwhile! Martha Anderson forwards this cool flash from G’Gate Park’s Strybing Arboretum Society newsletter: “The two urinals in the women’s restroom at the Hall of Flowers have been replaced by standard fixtures! It pays to have a woman general manager of the Recreation and Park Commission. Thank you, Mary Burns.” Members rewarded her with a sitting ovation ... Mystery in Visitacion Valley! Somebaddy stole the 9-foot-long, 100-lb. fiberglass sculpture of a human arm from the front yard of conceptual artist Alison Ulman, who also plants old TV sets in her gardens. Steve the Rube, our doughty legman, reports that neighbors, who like the thing, are up in arm ... If it weren’t for Allen Smorra, we’d never have found out that a major Tinseltown studio is finally making a movie about Humphrey the Whale, to be titled “Desperately Seeking Suisun” ... And Frank Crow is undone over the firing of Dave Burgin as editor of the Examiner. “He was the only one who liked my proposed column, ‘How to Write Good,’” he sighs.

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© Alison Ulman 2001