DOGGIE DINER History 

I'm just so choked up. The last Doggie head has been saved.

The spinning dog head on McDonald in Richmond is still vivid in my mind

I miss this place, loved the burgers.. I miss the old times.

In about 1966 when I was 16 my friend and I took the train from San Mateo to the Doggie near SF State. We listed to the very early Airplane and music on the jukebox, when Signe was with them...Later I went to State and went there nearly every day.

I remember in the early eighties I was in a running class at SF State University. Two girls and I ran down to the beach and got lunch there. Great time. But, I remember eating at Clown Alley a lot more.

If you live in the south S.F. Bay Area, AKA Silicon Valley, there's a Doggie Diner head residing inside the Streetlight Records store on South Bascom Avenue in San Jose. Last time I saw it a few months back, it was in really good condition, albeit a bit dusty.

Does anyone remember, Zims coffee shop dinners in San Francisco? They were everywhere before the ban on fast food chains was abolished. Thank you for coverage. Excellent.

I Was Born In San Francisco In 1962, And Raised There, So We Would Go To Both The Doggie Diner By The Zoo There, And To 1 Of The Doggie Diners On Army & Mission Street Back In The Mid, To Late 1960's, On Through The 1970's, And Into The Early 1980's, Wherein Sadly Iconic Doggie Diner Company Franchise Went Under, Causing A Major Disturbance In The Hot Dog, And Fast Food Force Universe, Which Thankfully Gave Me Many, . . . Many Fond Memories, Of My Late Father, (Who Loved Dachshunds), Taking Me, And My Brothers There, Under The Amazingly Cute Doggie Diner Bright Red Shiny Dachshund Head . :-) Thank You For Making, And Posting This Amazingly Cute Memory Lane Video, For Those Of Us, Who Were Alive Back Then, Who Went To The Various Doggie Diners Around San Francisco, And Oakland California . . . :-) May The Spirit, And Remaining Heads Of The Doggie Diner-Diner Live Forever . . . :-)

I use to go to one on 18th St. and Mission late nite, love those western burgers...👍🏼😷

I’m 53 and certainly remember this place in the mission in San Francisco

Happily one of the iconic heads is still on display on a pole out on Sloat in SF where one of them used to be near Sloat Gardens and not far from the San Francisco Zoo!

What a great video I remember bringing my daughter to the old Doggie Diner location after a visit at the zoo. That's what you called great memories.

When I turned 15 1/2 I got my first job at Doggie Diner that was 1982.

MISS DOGGIE DINNER OAKLAND THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Oh yeah! I remember the Doggie Diner! 😀 Thanks for sharing! 😊

I remember the one in Richmond and Oakland good times back then

was in navy in Oakland California 1968 I remember doggie diner from Ohio

23rd and McDonald Ave in Richmond and the Telegraph - Broadway junction in downtown Oakland were my spots and hot pastrami sandwich was my go-to meal. Malcolm from Oakland

As a kid in the late-60's and early-70's, my mother and I would go to the Doggie Diner on 35th Avenue and East 14th in Oakland. I can still remember smelling those delicious dogs cooking. To a kid of five or six, there was something magical about Doggie Diner. Whenever I drive by that location today, very fond memories of my youth come alive.

5:36 Thank you so much for this short documentary, I lived in Oakland and growing up going to the doggie diner was such a exciting treat...I remember being in Jr.High able to go by myself and order what I wanted from the DD..the one downtown and on telegraph, It was very much walking down memory lane for me to see that the doggie head as a historical landmark in the City!

Great name. Great memories.

I was lucky enough to live near a Doggie Diner location on 11th Avenue and Geary Boulevard inside the Inner Richmond District in San Francisco. Sometimes when my brother had a Cub Scout meeting, our mom would take him and me to that location for a quick dinner. Wow! Such memories.

For 510 weekend 2019 at the Oakland A's, I wore: Friday - Oaklandish Shirt, Saturday- Bruce Lee Martial Arts Studio t-shirt, and Sunday- Doggie Diner t-shirt. I got so many guests remembering this wonderful chain.

Are used to work at the Mayfair market on Ocean Avenue. I would go there at the end of my swing shift around midnight and have a western burger. Like many others commenting on this topic it was my favorite. Whoever took over the location near the zoo got the menu pretty close to the original. I would take my kids there after the zoo.

Use to go there with my parents in the 70s and 80s! Miss the corndogs, fries, and burgers

Sad, nostalgic story. Never got to eat there because it closed the year before we came back to California from living in Florida. :(

I used to go to the one right across the street from Rhodes Department Store in downtown Oakland. I loved their secret sauce.There was a guy that collected the Doggie Diner heads on his property in Oakland, CA. I saw them about 12 years ago but there gone now that the area is more upscale.

I miss Doggie so much

Yes, I remember. Late nights I ate at the Zims right near Van Ness in the 70s.

I miss this place growing up

Every nite,Hayward calif.1968 ! Hells Angels,and all other walks of life it was the shit !!!!

I remember that place in 1969 we used to come from Tracy Ca. my sister lived in Richmond and we'd stop by the one off Tellegraph Ave.........I know live in the north corner of Arkansas and miss the Bay area .....

As a kid growing up in San Francisco. Doggie diner And chicken delight. We're The spots.

I loved doggie diner. As a teenager in the Sunset Dist of SF, my 1st job was working at a burger joint called Jumbo’s on Sloat Blvd, half block up the street from Doggie Diner. I loved their western burger, and the pastrami sandwich, and their great thick milkshakes

In 1971 when I was 18, I basically lived at doggy diners 40 years later, when I went back to San Francisco I was delighted when I accidentally drove past the only remaining head on Sloat I Was beginning to think that I had only imagined The doggie

There Western Burgers!!!!!!! Went to Mission High in San Francisco, friends and I would go to the one on 18th and Mission when we had a two hour lunch. Miss it like crazy and loved to play the jukebox there, Also the one on Mission and Army by Sears.

Great video and great memories. My cousin and I would go to the Doggie at Persia and Mission after junior high school in 1970 so I could watch the girl I had a crush on.

Theres a gentleman in Hayward on National Avenue (Bell Plastics) that has several restored doggie heads

Doggie Diner on Sloat near the zoo. And Zim's on Taraval and 19th Ave. Whenever my family would visit the city,we would stop there.

I remember going to the doggie diner when we lived in Richmond and it was right at the corner of Mcdonald’s Avenue and 23rd St. those were the days now there’s a McDonald’s there but I don’t remember when that doggie diner close to that had to be in the early 80s Because soon after that I think they started building the McDonald’s in the mid to late 80s if I recall thanks for the video that was cool

I remember the Doggie Diner at the corner of Hesperian and Lewelling. There's a Starbucks there now. I'd take the Doggie Head over the mermaid any day.

Our complete “day out” in San Francisco was Lunch #1 at Doggie Diner followed by three hours at Fleishacker Zoo, then Playland at the Beach with Lunch #2 at The House😉

The Dog's pastrami sandwiches were spendy, but, boy, were they good Loved the infrared heaters 98 & E.14th.

Ad native here, thankyou for this

I remember that if you got a red star on the back of your receipt your meal was free!!!

It was a sad day when doggie diner died!

My first girlfriend lived down the street from the Doggie Diner on E.14th in Oakland. I ate there maybe twice. So sad to see it go.

used to go to the one on 98th av & E 14th

I subscribed because of this video… thank you 😍

Dang, too bad they closed. I’m craving some hot dogs 🌭 from Doggie Diner.

Lafayette had on right on the Main street, I have a clear memory of a sunny day, swinging my legs chewing a fry.

The last Doggie Diner closed in San Francisco in May 1986.

There was a dog head sign in Bethel Island about 15 years ago.

There is a doggie diner head in a antique shop in Port Costa ,not shure if it's from the one on Mcdonald and 23rd,in richmond or the one in El cerrito .

After shows at Winterland Jerry Garcia would tool on down to the Sunset district Doggie Diner and chow down on 2 chili dogs with everything and an icy coke.

Oakland sure has changed.

San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito.

My 4th grade class went to SF on a field trip in 1976 and we had hamburgers at the Doggie on Sloat. My question is though: if the Doggie was so popular, why did they shut it down??

Chili Dog, Fries and a Cherry Coke ! Nothing better at the time(early/mid1950's thru 1960's ) !

When I landed in San Francsico in 1976, the neighborhood at 18th and Mission had gone down hill, and a lot of unsavory characters patronized the Doggie Diner. How sad. I'm glad they made that wonderful doggy head a civic monument.

What a great sad story for a historical diner I’m not from the Bay Area but they should keep the legacy alive instead of building useless stuff for the people who love that place

Grew up with doggie dinner across the street from the SF zoo !!

The hot dogs were a little too red (sodium nitrate?) for today's taste. But they were good. The pastrami was good also. I'd eat there in a minute if they still existed.

I was born in Chicago

Doggie diner alameda, then down to beer can beach

Is that Farhan narrating

it makes me sad to watch this

Potrezbie(furshlugginer)

Yeah the Western Spical...

This mascot is damn creepy.

Last two doggie diners in San Francisco on 9th and mission then closed and became a charbroil burgerr joint Chinese run it didn't work..finally 18th at mission closed turned into Chinese veg fruit mkt. I went to John oconnel on 22st and Harrison so DD was my lunch spot in the mid sixtie..one of the dogs heads is in my friends garage in Daly City since early 70s..

I worked at DD on the corner of Lombard & Fillmore in the Marina '71- '72, where I learned about human nature first hand. Nothing Could Be Finer...