Señor Fish

8"x 8" oil on canvas ••• This piece should qualify as some sort of historical document because this building is no more. It was across the street from the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. Like so many people who haunted downtown decades ago, I will always remember this not as a Señor Fish, but as the home of the legendary and comfortably creepy Atomic Cafe. The cafe was a great place to hang out, and it had the added benefit of giving you the feeling that you would get hepititis just by thinking of going there. Ah, the good old days in Downtown Los Angeles! • I stumbled upon some photographs I had taken of this side of the building before they tore it down and decided to see if it would make for a good painting. The Spousal Unit probably thought the signage looked cool and forced me to take pictures of it. It is a simple equation for happiness: She says take the shot, I take the shot, done. As usual, it turns out She was right; it makes a for a good painting.

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Posted February 19, 2021

sold • private collection