Doggie Diner 1986
by Wingsdomain Art and Photography
Title
Doggie Diner 1986
Artist
Wingsdomain Art and Photography
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
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Doggie Diner 1986
Doggie Diner was a small fast food restaurant chain serving hot dogs and hamburgers in San Francisco and Oakland, California that operated from 1948 to 1986, owned by Al Ross.
The first Doggie Diner was opened on Oakland's San Pablo Avenue in 1948 and grew in popularity. At one time there were 30 locations around the San Francisco Bay Area, mostly concentrated in San Francisco. The chain was sold to Ogden Corporation around 1969. They sold french fries, hamburgers, hot dogs, and sodas. The chain's advertising jingle was: “Doggie diner, nothin’ finer. Doggie Diner, it's doggone good!”.
The Doggie Diner chain went out of business in 1986 after trying to compete with big chain restaurants, such as McDonald's and Burger King. Its founder Al Ross died in 2010, at age 93. The brand name has been revived for hot dog sales at Oracle Park, home stadium of the San Francisco Giants.
In December 2000, the Doggie Diner head was featured in Zippy comics as "the doggie" in grassroots effort to save the heads. Zippy frequently participated in his long-running conversation with the giant fiberglass doggie mascot.
In 2004, Laughing Squid, a website founded in San Francisco, sponsored three of the dog heads – named Manny, Moe & Jack – as the "Holy Dogminican Order" to take the dog heads on a cross-country trip, ending in a show by Cyclecide at CBGB in New York City. The cross-country trip was documented in a movie called "Head Trip", released in 2008.
In 2013, Yarn artist Olek crocheted bright colored yarn over three of the dog heads as an art piece.[15]
"Doggie diner!" was the battle cry of the Batwinged Hamburger Snatcher (BWHS) character from Dan O'Neill's Odd Bodkins weekly newspaper comic strip.
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November 21st, 2009
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