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Here's a project I was hoping to get posted around the holidays, but what with said holidays and other business commitments, I never got the chance. Nevertheless, here is the cute little cowgirl logo I did last month for Pop Rocket Cosmetics, which will be available soon, if not already (I'll try to keep you posted about that). Just as a point of interest, Pop Rocket is put out by the same folks who run Bombshell Brazilian Waxing & Beauty Lounge, in Richmond, Virginia, and as luck would have it, I also did that logo as well.

This drawing of the now gone, Castle Restaurant in Gladstone, Oregon just off 99E is a walnut ink wash with a bit of pen & India ink. I did it from memory, so I know it isn't exactly correct, but it's really just a study, and I'll revisit the subject later for a more correct rendition.

As I recall, the Castle started out as a lapidary shop in the 20's and was later converted to a roadhouse in the late 30's or so. In the 40's and 50's it was a very popular jazz club in the Portland Metropolitan area. My dad remembers drunks falling into the moat outside, and visiting one time in particular during the mid-40's and there being buckets on the dance floor to catch leaks from the roof; the dancers just danced around them. Can you imagine the insurance liability today? In the 70's my parents and I would go there for dinner once in a while, the food was fantastic, not healthy mind you, but oh, so tasty. Sadly The Castle was closed down for good sometime in the late 80's or early 90's, and allowed to decay quite a bit. A few years ago a local business man, Jim Raoke (owner of the landmark, Roake's Footlong Restaurant) tried to re-open it as a restaurant, but the grandfather clause on the zoning had expired due to lack of use, and the neighbors put up a big stink about letting him do it for fear that he would open a strip club (despite Roake offering to sign an agreement that he wouldn't). Fucking imbeciles! The result was that the Castle was razed and replaced by a small housing development of shitty looking, cookie-cutter houses, called Castle Park. Sigh.

Retro logo design for the Bombshell Brazilian Waxing & Beauty Lounge in Richmond, Virginia.

This is a flyer I just finished up last night for a book signing next month by Heather M. David for her book about MCM San Francisco, Mid-Century By The Bay. You should check it out if you find yourself in the bay area on December 3rd.

All photos used in this design are copyright Heather M. David.

Just a fun retro mock-promotional piece for corn dogs that was rattling around in my head for quite a while.