Saturday, March 1, 2014

San Francisco Icon The Bushman Gregory Jacobs passes away

Through out the last 30 years on San Franciscos Fishermans wharf and the piers, Gregory Jacobs, best known as the Bush man, made it his mission to make people laugh.
He hid behind bushy tree branches that he would cut and crouch down and hide behind. Waiting for tourists to walk by and then jump out and scare them.
Millions of tourist photos have been taken of him, and whenever my family and I went to San Francisco we always looked forward to seeing him. We would stand back in the distance and watched the unsuspecting people he would jump out at.

The other day I found out from a friend that he had been on the news she was watching. He had died of heart complications and I, like many others was very saddened.
I never knew his name until now but he is someone I will always remember. He scared me almost ten years ago by jumping out at me and I laughed, as did every one around me. From then on I always waited to see what the reaction would be from the next unsuspecting person walking by him.
These photos are from 2012, my son Tres putting money in his collection can and me with my arm around Gregory.

R.I.P Bush Man Gregory Jacobs, you will be missed.