Since retiring from many years teaching history at San Francisco State University, photographer Rodger C. Birt has been an occasional conductor of streetcar tours of the byside city where he lives with his wife and daughter, and showing his work in SF galleries. Featured here are selections from the black and white and color portfolios.

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Under another freeway a discarded table, chairs and couches sit arranged as if in a residence with no walls between the rooms. Bugs sleeps on a sofa and Fido kicks back in a recliner snoring lightly. Bugs wakes, sees the dog, takes a stick of gum out and pops it in his mouth. After chewing it he grabs a dollar from his pocket, gets the gum out of his mouth and sneaks over to Fido. Then he sticks the dollar on his tail. Bugs

Got my first Tattoo last night!

There is now a red and black Nautical Star on my left arm.

Been wanting this tattoo scheme for the last 20 years, so I have known I wanted it, I just kept setting points in the future, around diet and health, conditions for getting them, and the conditions were never met or I was just too scared.

Originally, I wanted them back in the days of Theresa, but when she left, I kinda fell off the Me-wagon for a while. Then, I wanted them for every 25 pounds I

I've been putting out books since I was 19. The last two, "Small and Wrong" and "Fables" I've published since moving to Chicago. Prior to that, there were three compilations:

"Songs and Praises from the Land of Love" - 1987 119 pages

The first one was written mostly during '85 and '86, my senior year in high school and freshman year in college. I dropped out of eastern Illionois University early in my 4^th semester and put it together. It would be the template going forward: stories, poems, lists and drawings. More stories than anything else that would come later (outside of