Cotati Inn c1940 is a painting by Melvin Hale which was uploaded on October 22nd, 2010.
Title
Cotati Inn c1940
Artist
Melvin Hale
Medium
Painting - Digital Painting From A Vintage Black And White Postcard
Description
Cotati Inn
8201 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati CA
"Cotati" a peaceful tribe of Coast Miwok Indians who populated this valley for generations. They thrived on the bounty of acorns, wild game, fish, grains, and berries that abounded in the temperate climate. The first Anglo settler, John Reed, arrived in 1827, but undoubtedly was discouraged in his farming by the native practice of annual field burning. Fast forward to the 1970s, students from the nearby and newly founded Sonoma State University took a special liking to traditional Cotati with its rustic lifestyle and initiated bold changes in the city's philosophy and scenery. Along with local hippies, they converted the old Cotati Inn restaurant into The Inn of the Beginning and featured world-class rock, blues, and other artists. The Plaza Park became a social center with a volunteer-built bandstand and almost continuous popular use--to the joy of the younger citizens and dismay of the oldsters. Today, Cotati is a fully-fledged city. The downtown's general stores of the past have given way to sidewalk cafes and cabarets, and former farmland on the west side of town is home to industrial and business parks. But Cotati denizens remain as independent and forward-thinking as those early small-farm owners and business people who created the charming and quirky, artistic and musical, country-town energy that Cotati continues to pour forth. (Cotati Historical Society)
Cotati's friendly atmosphere and convenient location of The Inn made it an attractive place for the many world-class musicians who lived in Marin to use the Inn of The Beginning as a venue to work on new material or try out a new lineup. Over the decades, the likes of Van Morrison and Jerry Garcia played there many times, often with very little publicity. Ironically, this has led to an expansion of the legend beyond its actual width; the New Riders of The Purple Sage played there in 1969, probably more than once, but this has led to the unsustainable story that the Grateful Dead used to play there "every Tuesday." chickenonaunicycle.com
Melvin Hale (ArtistLA), an award-winning digital artist, uses vintage black and white photos and real photo postcards (RPPCs) to create realistic color digital paintings that bring the past alive. It's called Digital Realism.
See the transformation of this artwork from black & white, and more at
www.artistla.com/cotati.htm
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Uploaded
October 22nd, 2010
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