B-Not

B-Not

We had our share of strange folks in and out of the Sea Gull.  Cat Woman (see Eleanor Cooney’s excellent article on p. 64-5 at this link), Mat-head, Radio Man, and a flasher who always arrived wearing a black trench coat and sat in a booth in the back of the dining...
The Sea Gull Paintings

The Sea Gull Paintings

  “My first body of work was in 1976, painting the 12 Fairy Tale portraits of 150 Mendocino locals for The Sea Gull Restaurant and Cellar Bar,” explains James Maxwell.  The paintings were completed between 1976 and 1986.  “The Sea Gull paintings...
86’d

86’d

In my early years at the Sea Gull there was a time when I lived upstairs in a converted liquor storage room. I hired Orval, the plumber, and Ed, the tile setter, to help convert one end of the small room into a bathroom with a shower. It was small, dark and it picked...