The Silver Peso

Even though it's 3 blocks away from my house, I don't venture in that often. Our little town of Larkspur has grown past the 'Peso, leaving it back in time. In a town where the housewives drive Porsche SUV's, and the cost of a one bedroom, one bathroom house, could get you a mansion and yacht anywhere else in the world, The Silver Peso maintains it's grit, and grasp on reality for the common man who just wants a beer and a game of pool. Taken in May of 2007. On the last weekend I was asked to leave by one of the bartenders that nobody likes. At the time I was surrounded by a packed bar full of local friends and stangers taking pictures with cell phones and point and shoots. I raise my Leica, and I'm asked to leave, in a very violent way. As Irony would have it, I was called 3 days later by The Pacific Sun Magazine, to inform me that I had one 'best in show' with the image of the bald guy on the pool table. The Leica M6 shot Fuji Neopan 1600 pulled -1, and the Hasselblad 500cm shooting Ilford Delta Pro 400 pushed +1

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