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Geezer Photo Get-Together 2019

Posted on December 23, 2019August 15, 2020 By Ann Thompson

Starting A Geezer Year­book Collection

This year, for many reasons, our usual October picnic as viewed (“Gath­er­ings” in the list at the left) was discon­tinued. To keep a meeting going, I have reached out to our members by email and asked for contri­bu­tions to this new ​“Photo Gath­ering”. I wasn’t able to give everyone enough time to find a photo and write a few words, but I am happy to show this collec­tion which numbers the same amount as we had at the last picnic.

Note: It just shows you—I requested, of a creative group, a ​“Mug Shot” from the 1970s or 1980s — and what did I get? The first responses: a present day photo, two in front of a laundry?, two sketches, multiple photos! OK. I followed their lead, and I changed my ​“mug shot” to show myself at the drawing board. The couple of sentences requested also became better than I had imagined.
Ann

Jack Allen
Jack Allen 
Brian Barnes
Brian Barnes 
David Broad
David Broad 
Chuck Eckart
Chuck Eckart 
Marc Ericksen
Marc Ericksen 

1‑Allen, Jack In 1966, San Fran­cisco maga­zine published this picture of me in their September issue, Volume 8, No. 9 — cred­iting me for my cover photo showing a couple in the early morning hours on Hotaling Place.
2‑Barnes, Brian Trouble finding stuff that is sharp and presentable. Seven­ties mate­rial is almost all on 35mm slide. This was taken around 1987 at Walter Swarthout’s studio for a Gallo shoot when I was at Hal Riney. I had my left forearm propped on the shoulder of a fly fish­erman male model who I cropped out for your purpose. Walt had us ​‘horse around ​‘after­ward and he captured this. Good times.
3‑Broad, David In response to your request — this is from 1945, Frank­furt, Germany, the war had just ended and we became the Army of Occu­pa­tion. After discharge I signed up as a civilian with a job as an artist. This was the Infor­ma­tion and Educa­tion Unit — Jerome Snyder was the leading art director along with several artists who as civil­ians before the war were famous in New York. Need­less to say it was a heady experience.
4‑Eckart, Chuck I’m still working, painting, and enjoying it. I have a large exhi­bi­tion coming up at the Seager Gray Gallery during February 2020. The how will be opening on my 85th birthday. I’ll send you an announce­ment just before show time. Chuck
5‑Ericksen, Marc Free­lancing in San Fran­cisco was the best of the best, a dream come true, and resulted in a load of wonderful memo­ries. The clients, the Niners, the creativity. the fun, and the wonderful Bay. We had it all!

Escasany, Richard and Kenwood, Dale
Escasany, Richard and Kenwood, Dale 
Joel Fugazzotto
Joel Fugazzotto 
John Hardgrove
John Hardgrove 
Ross Heil
Ross Heil 
Paul Lessig
Paul Lessig 
Gale McKee
Gale McKee 
Todd Miller
Todd Miller 
Dick Moore
Dick Moore 

6‑Escasany, Richard and Kenwood, Dale Richard Escasany and Dale Kenwood 1976 outside Wing Lees Elec­tric Laundry.
7‑Fugazzotto, Joel Here’s my photo. On stage in Holly­wood in the 1980s shooting a commer­cial with Vern Gillum and Friends.
Joel Fugaz­zotto
8‑Hardgrove, John Cele­brating my 75th birthday in Alsace, France. Finally retired after a 50-year career in adver­tising and graphic design. TV produc­tion assis­tant 1965 – 68: Guild,Bascom,Bonfigli. Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. 1969 – 76 Creative Director Aviva Enter­prises, Peanuts char­acter merchan­dise. 1977 – 2015, Owner, Creative Director, The Design Bunch, print adver­tising, graphic design for corpo­rate commu­ni­ca­tions, posters and package design. Currently, I’m painting commis­sioned water­color dog portraits, and golf courses at home.
9‑Heil, Ross Photo from this spring — 2019 — Walnut Creek. Vice Pres­i­dent — McCann-Erickson, San Fran­cisco — 1972 to 1984. Account Manager — Del Monte Corpo­ra­tion. (Sorry, no 1970s — 1980s image avail­able — the photo­stats have faded)
10-Lessig, Paul 2019, Sparks, NV. As an ​‘Alumni’ of the Wyman Co.‘s Art Dept (and who in the 50’s & 60’s wasn’t) tallied-forth thru Account Exec­u­tive assign­ments with Hoefer, Diet­rick & Brown & Camp­bell Ewald. In 1965 joined Fromm & Sichel, World­wide Distrib­u­tors and Marketers of the Chris­tian Brothers Wines and Brandy as International/National Sales Promo­tion Director; then Pres­i­dent & CEO of its Marketing/Sales Promo­tion Agency in 1972. Left the asso­ci­a­tion and the Adver­tising Industry in 1977 to pursue other career interests.
11-McKee, Gale Here is a photo of me helping an intern at Artworks in the mid-seventies.
I worked there from 1974 to 1978 as a rep and graphic designer, ( double commission!)
and then married the boss.(Don McKee) Job secu­rity… LOL ! I have been painting and showing art at various venues in Santa Rosa and Marin since 2009. My last job was not in advertising
but was the perfect job for me: designer & illus­trator for Pottery Barn kids. I was there 8 years and the ONLY one who never used a computer…everything by hand!
12-Miller, Todd Oh yeah…if you got the photo I sent…t was taken by Don Hadley in my office at Bots­ford Ketchum in 1977.? We were working on the Olympia Beer campaign at the time. I don’t remember how he took the photo (4 photos like that in a square). I think Jill Murray may have been there. I know, it was after a lunch at Hoff­man’s Grill (Don and I always ordered Chicken Fried Steak with extra gravy at Hoff­man’s Grill every Friday). It was the first time Don laughed so hard beer came out his nose.(we were talking about how ​“creativity” works and Don asked who could define ​“creativity” and I said ​“that’s a very large bird that flies in the Andes”. I guess Don had more than his usual one glass of beer (kidding). For some reason, Don found my response very funny. Today…I would call it senility.
13-Moore, Dick During an interim between my years of commer­cial illus­tra­tion (as Dick Moore), I was living, painting & exhibiting throughout the Hawaiian Islands for 7 years (as Richard Moore). Lovely times. (Photo, 1981)

Larry Nielsen
Larry Nielsen 
Norman Nicholson
Norman Nicholson 
Norma Novy
Norma Novy 
Kirsten Tirsbak Nusser
Kirsten Tirsbak Nusser 
Jane Teiko Oka
Jane Teiko Oka 
John Pratt
John Pratt 
Chuck Pyle
Chuck Pyle 
Lee Riney
Lee Riney 
Steve Rustad
Steve Rustad 

14-Nielsen, Larry Is this too off the wall? It was taken in Marrakesh, Morocco of me and our guide.
15-Nicholson, Norman 525 Pacific Ave Group, 1970’s
16-Novy, Norma Attached is my mug shot. Hey, this is nice since I’m all the way in Medford, OR. Hank and I will be home to Marin for 2 days this Xmas to see family and friends. I hope you all are doing well. Norma
17-Nusser, Kirsten Tirsbak Photo: Early 1980s, Kirsten T. Sinclair, 901 Battery Street, SF, as in-house free­lancer for FCB Health­care. 1966 – 1970: I moved from Esbjerg, Denmark, to Cali­fornia, first employed by Psychology Today Magazine’s graphics depart­ment in Del Mar, and then as a designer for Simonson and Shaw Design, in LA. 1972 to present: In San Fran­cisco, I often was a CD or an AD. With years of many and various clients, that also included my ​”hands-on” and full computer graphic skills, I am now happily retired, volun­teering my design expe­ri­ence to help non-profits and others with requests that keep me busy.
18-Oka, Jane Teiko 1954: Schol­ar­ship to Cali­fornia School of Fine Arts in San Fran­cisco and grad­u­ated with a Bachelor’s Degree.
Employed as graphic designer by Patterson & Hall in San Francisco.
Received a Fulbright schol­ar­ship in 1960 to study in Japan.
1962: Began free­lance career in the city with major clients and also created calen­dars, gift items, package design, posters, story­book and school­book illustrations.
Steadily working by mail with east coast clients — to get out of the house — assisted Marin County’s Wild­Care, and later, The Marine Mammal Center (for nine­teen years) as an ​“outside” interest. (1968 Photo by Tom King)
19-Pratt, John After a day’s shoot with Walter Swarthout in the Seven­ties, he wasn’t ready to quit. He insisted I sit for him with this result.
20-Pyle, Chuck Chuck Pyle, formerly young and hungry illus­trator. Currently, Old and teacher/department Chair at Academy of Art University.
21-Riney, Lee I just sent you a photo of me when I was working at Foote, Cone and then Young & Rubicam. It was taken years and years ago by Hal Riney in my Tele­graph Hill studio, which cost $75 per month. We were soon to be married, and needed pass­port photos for our honey­moon to Europe.
As you know, I was the first of Hal’s five wives. Lee Riney
22-Rustad, Steve This was shot a few years back, on loca­tion at the Geyserville Gun Club (really, just a hipster bar. No firearm). I was directing an episode of Fermen­ta­tion Road, which was part of Season Two of the YouTube series: Spoiled to Perfection.

Ward Schumaker
Ward Schumaker 
Dick Somers
Dick Somers 
Robert G. Steele
Robert G. Steele 
Bill Stewart
Bill Stewart 
Jim Stitt
Jim Stitt 

23-Schumaker, Ward Me at the Jack Fischer Gallery for a showing of my trump Papers, last November 2018.
24-Somers, Dick Kauai, Hawaii. My wife of almost 56 years and I spend much of February and March on Kauai, almost every year. It is a place where one can truly relax.
25-Robert G. Steele Here are three photos from USAF Art Program. Many local illus­tra­tors partic­i­pated in this great program from the early sixties until about 2010, trav­eling and painting as guests of the USAF.
1. 1993 Air Force Art Presen­ta­tion at Bolling Air Force Base, DC. Rt. to left: Marc Eric­sson and me, Robert Steele (SF Society of Illus­tra­tors) and Matthew Holmes (Sacra­mento).
2. 2006 USAF Art presen­ta­tion, Andrews AFB
3. 2008 USAF Art presen­ta­tion. Wash/DC 2008.
26-Stewart. Bill The photo I sent was taken in my studio at home in San Rafael in mid 80s (I think).
I was working as an art director with Bots­ford Cons­tine & McCarty on the ?Olympia Beer account at that time.
27-Stitt, Jim Photo: Blair Heagerty / SFGate. Born and raised in Seattle, served in two different wars and armed forces — the Navy in WWII and the Marines in the Korean War — attended two different art schools on the G.I. Bill (including the pres­ti­gious ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena), worked as a tech­nical illus­trator for Boeing, and spent 30 years as an art director for an adver­tising agency in Los Angeles. I didn’t care for LA so I came to San Fran­cisco, connecting with Hal Riney, and got a job at SF’s BBD&O as Art Director. I was offered the Spice Islands account at Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample.
I’ve illus­trated 44 of the 45 labels for Anchor Christmas Ale, a beloved annual holiday offering from the 123-year-old brewery that features both a new recipe and unique hand drawn tree every year. Hand­made beers require hand­made labels.
From Jim’s daughter, Janis:
Jim was inter­viewed in December 2019 by CBS since Fritz Maytag and Anchor Steam Brewery is being honored into the Smith­sonian as one of the first microbreweries.
As you can imagine we are all proud and excited, but Papa Jim is humbled as always.

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28-Sweeny, Charlie, Art Director, Cunningham & Walsh, San Francisco
29-Thompson, Ann Photo: Early ​‘70s, Wharf­side Building, 680 Beach Street, SF. Free­lancing from 1965 to 2001 – enjoyed every assign­ment (Job #1 to #3,445, Whew!) and met great talents in SF’s graphics commu­nity. Since then, creating my own projects. (Photo by Tom Moulin.)
Ann is the power behind the Geezers Gallery. She does all the hard work. ph
30-Tom, Jack Selfie taken in the Grand Canyon AZ, 2019?“Born in San Fran­cisco, now live, work and teach in Connecticut.”?” I love being a graphic designer and love teaching what I love!”
31-Young, Ron Founder and CEO Shocase, Inc. Here are three photos which span ½ a century in the adv biz. 1968-Receiving Clio. Levi’s Radio Commer­cial featuring the JEFFERSON AIRPLANE. Adver­tising Hall of Fame in NYC. Adver­tising Hall of Fame at Wall Street Ciprioni, NYC

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