Jim’s Guide to San Francisco—an update
Back in June we posted about an oddball guide to San Francisco called Jim's Guide to San Francisco in which artist Jim Finnegan posed outside SF businesses named Jim.
Finnegan published this back in 1977.
Joshua Bote, a writer for Gazetteer SF, recently came across our post, and it inspired him to seek out more info about Jim's Guide. He contacted me, but I wasn't much help. I told him I came across a reference to it in an old art journal named Umbrella. But then he was able to track down Finnegan himself, who's now 80 years old, living in the town of Woodacre in Marin County.
Bote reports:
Check out the whole article.
Finnegan published this back in 1977.
Joshua Bote, a writer for Gazetteer SF, recently came across our post, and it inspired him to seek out more info about Jim's Guide. He contacted me, but I wasn't much help. I told him I came across a reference to it in an old art journal named Umbrella. But then he was able to track down Finnegan himself, who's now 80 years old, living in the town of Woodacre in Marin County.
Bote reports:
He seemed amused that anyone has remembered this relic of his youth. None of the places in the book have lived on — save for the church. He has no plans to recreate the guide; he doesn’t come around to San Francisco much anymore, anyway.
Check out the whole article.
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Category: Books | Tourists and Tourism | 1970s