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Kiss me. Kiss me. Livermore, California

Bill Owens

American, born 1938

Details

Title

Kiss me. Kiss me. Livermore, California

Artist/Maker

Bill Owens (American, born 1938)

Date

1974, printed later

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Dr. Roger Hartl

Accession #

2022.272

Location

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

© Bill Owens

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I used to be a chef and my partner was a garbage foreman. He was making $107 a week and going crazy. Now we sell apples and oranges from the back of a pickup truck. You meet people of every race–rich and poor, doctors and dentists. Everyone loves good fruit. We’re making a living and enjoying ourselves.

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America is the best country in the world. In Azores we’d go to the movies and America would seem like a dream. We came here with fifty dollars in our pocket and worked twelve hours a day, six days a week to save money to buy this dry-cleaning business. America is better than we thought. We have everything we ever wanted

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I gross over $200,000 a year as the owner-manager of a donut store, but there’s a price to pay. I come to work at 2:00 A.M. to begin the daily routine of making 250 dozen donuts. I eat dinner at 4:00 in the afternoon and am in bed by 7:30. I was a Depression baby. Now kids say there has to be something better. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

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