OB Woman’s Club Annual Hat Contest — Thursday, April 4 — at Dirty Birds Restaurant

Some of last years winners.

The Ocean Beach Woman’s Club is holding their fourth annual hat contest scheduled for Thursday, April 4, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. , at Dirty Birds restaurant, located 1929 Cable St.

This competition is free and open to everyone who has a favorite hat – or who wants to craft a new one.

This year’s “hat-egories” are:

  • Best Party Hat,
  • Most Ridiculous,
  • Most OBcean and
  • Ode to Mae, a nod to the club’s garden tradition.

The inspiration for the contest originally came from a book by Rag columnist Kathy Blavatt called “Ocean Beach: Where Land and Water Meet.” It included a photo of Mae Clarke wearing a tall, elaborately decorated floral hat around 1960. The contest also will commemorate the Woman’s Club’s 100th anniversary.

Everybody in attendance will be able to vote for their choices in each category.

For more information, email oceanbeachwomansclub@gmail.com, call (619) 222-1008 or visit oceanbeachwomansclub.org.

A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

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