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September 10, 2016 by tomdalzell

Eni Green / Harper Street / Doxies

Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., is seen on Thursday,  June 20th, 2013.

This is the most prominent piece of art at Eni Green’s house at 3026 Harper Street that is visible from the street

A large Doggie Diner head with the DD chef’s hat and a bow tie overlooks the gate and the yard, a reminder of the glory that was the small Bay Area fast food chain that went wiener-belly-up in 1986. Billboard and ad layout designer Harold Bachman created the dog heads.

3100 Mission Street, San Francisco.  Photo: Doggiediner.com

3100 Mission Street, San Francisco. Photo: Doggiediner.com

Emeryville’s John Law, a neon artist known for his role in the early years of Burning Man, has three old Doggie Diner heads that he famously parades around the Bay Area on a trailer. Eni has one, beautifully restored, that she bought at a garage sale. Yes, a Doggie Diner head at a garage sale!

Eni Green

Eni Green

"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

Eni Green has loved dachshunds (hard to spell correctly) since she got her first when she was 16, Mitzala. Many more since then.

"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

Eni Green is a collector. It started innocently. Her Ithaca College Spanish professor Eduardo de Aguero gave her a painting he had made. She started collecting and – no looking back!

So love of dachshunds + collecting = a very quirky Ashby-BART-adjacent Berkeley home.

Her front yard is filled with bigger dachshund pieces.

Bulwinkle

There is a Bulwinkle version of the Doggie Diner head over the driveway.  Note the initials “MB” where one would expect the Doggie Diner “DD.”

"Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., is seen on Thursday,  June 20th, 2013."

There are a number of pieces commissioned from Patrick Amiot.  The gate leading to the walk to the front steps is Amiot’s:

Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., is seen on Thursday,  June 20th, 2013.Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., is seen on Thursday,  June 20th, 2013.Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., is seen on Thursday,  June 20th, 2013.In 2016, there was an addition. Green commissioned a rogue little free library in the design of – yes! – a dachshund.

Quirky Berkeley 08-16-2016Doxies don’t stop outside the house.

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A big long one snakes up the stairs.

"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

Paintings cover all walls of her home, a look that Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas would approve. Also: her mother’s miniature porcelain shoe collection, hundreds of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls, Buster Brown, Nipper the RCA Victor dog, and pre-Cuisinart food choppers.  And a carousel horse and a telephone booth.  And more.

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"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

"Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on July 17th, 2015."

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"Quirky Berkeley 07-17-15"

Green has a moveable number of flesh-and-blood dachshunds and she walks them regularly.   It is not uncommon to encounter her on the sidewalk near her house, doxie(s) in tow.

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I asked my friend to take a look at the draft re-post here.  He did.  “It’s a trip how a professor gives her a painting and her life changes.  Something little. Butterfly effect or something like that.”  He is all about the butterfly effect and dynamical systems etc.

Yes, I conceded, a small thing can launch an unexpected trajectory.  But what about the post?

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