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The Attic Gallery Art-In – Part I
The Sea Gull burned to the ground forty years ago this year. It’s easy for me to remember the date because my friend and key employee, Lorna, was born on December 12. We took a few minutes to comment on the irony of that coincidence, but we didn’t dwell on it for...
Steps to Security
I recently read The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans by Neal Gabler. As someone who has worked for thirty years as a financial adviser, reading the article was both sobering and painful. It was sobering because it gets to the root of the angst in...
Kelley – Sculptor, Piper, Busker
Copied From Northglow, January/February 1984, Vol. II, No. 1, pp. 12-22 Editor’s Note: When Michelle Robinson sent us this article about the many-faceted Kelley, she explained in a covering letter the reasons for the introduction and conclusion and the way they were...
Alan Graham aka Captain Fathom
He wandered about aloof from reality. Whether or not he knew where he was going was hard to tell. When that raucous laugh assaulted your ears, your body tensed in anticipation. He spoke with an irritating nasal tone and his face was often fixed in a stupid smile. ...
Prince – 1958-2016
Mickie and Michael
The thing about musicians, at least the ones I know, is that they live for the music. Money, fame, name-dropping—that's not where it’s at. I was always amazed when a musician, starving, unable to pay the rent, would show up at the drop of a hat to help with a...
Clifford
Clifford came with the restaurant. He traded errands and odd jobs for food. He could have afforded to pay cash but the Sea Gull was his home and nobody paid cash for food at home. Ice cream and butter were cheaper at Safeway, so Clifford toted them down on his way...
Guest Post: A Janitor Remembers – by Mitchell Zucker
Excerpts From The Cult of the Buffalo (originally written around 1978) by Mitchell Zucker Any resemblance of the characters in this story to actual characters is not only unintentional and coincidental but also reprehensible. The Royal vacuum sucked up the night’s...
Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art Show
In June 2015 Jennifer Linley Taylor organized an auction and show of Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art at the Mendocino Art Center. You can read more and view other pictures and links HERE. You can find more on the Sea Gull Paintings HERE. And, visit the Food Page for...
Guest Post: My Ghosts – by James Maxwell
EXCERPT 'A Mid-summers Night's Dream' The people of Mendocino and the regulars at the Sea Gull were not my only unrequited love affairs. It was my belief that I belonged here. True, I knew Antonia and her family when I arrived, but I moved to the coast because of the...
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
"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 represent the...