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RICK JASANY'S PICTURE PAGE

Rick Jasany, this page's featured photographer, worked in Harvey Milk and Scott Smith's Camera Shop on Castro Street in the late 1970's. As a photographer, he used the name Rick Jarrett.

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Rick has since moved to the East Coast. He was very involved in photography while living in San Francisco, and has kindly consented to provide some of his pictures for display on this website. A warm Thank You to Rick. I hope he will soon provide additional images and maybe some words of wisdom to accompany them.

The picture was taken in front of the 'NOTHING SPECIAL' bar on a sunny afternoon in May 1980. The bar which opened in 1971 lived up to its name until it became the 'SPECIAL' in the mid-80's. It was reasonably popular, drawing a regular crowd of hearty drinkers, from 6 AM to 2 AM every day. It is now a restaurant. The Special was on the sunny side of Castro Street as were the other locations shown below in images from July 1977. They indicate how busy the sidewalks often were.

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THE FOLLOWING 1977 IMAGES WERE ADDED APRIL 2000

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This picture looks into the front window of 'WITHOUT RESERVATION' and shows the warm homey atmosphere. The restaurant on the west side of Castro Street closed in 1998. My recollection is that it replaced 'ANDY's DONUTS', a popular all night restaurant and donut shop which featured bright flourescent lighting and the only restroom open past 2 AM. 'ANDY'S' moved around the corner to 17th Street and became 'ORPHAN ANDY'S'.

If you would like to say 'Thanks' to Rick, urge him to dig up some more pictures, or just say 'Hello!', You may write to Rick at [email protected].

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This page created April 8, 1997 and updated December 4, 2006
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