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Because we live in the suburbs we don't eat too much Chinese food. It's not available in the supermarkets so on Saturday we eat hot dogs.
Because we live in the suburbs we don't eat too much Chinese food. It's not available in the supermarkets so on Saturday we eat hot dogs.

Because we live in the suburbs we don't eat too much Chinese food. It's not available in the supermarkets so on Saturday we eat hot dogs.

Alternate Titles
  • from the Suburbia series
Artist (American, born 1938)
Date1971, printed later
ClassificationsPhotograph
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage area: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (15.9 x 23.5 cm) Sheet: 8 x 9 7/8 in. (20.3 x 25.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jonathan Ungar
Object number2025.113
Copyright© Bill Owens Extra Book Print
We came because George Plimpton was invited, but he didn't show up. South Hampton, NY.
We came because George Plimpton was invited, but he didn't show up. South Hampton, NY.
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2008
Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.
Like everybody else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon, bit we can only deliver half a moon.
Bill Owens
1975, printed 2006
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special, we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have personality to deal with the public.
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
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Bill Owens
1975, printed 2006
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Every Sunday Abe and I read the New York Times and have roast beef for dinner.
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Bill Owens
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All a Hollywood producer needs is a room, a telephone with an answering machine and a gun. You make a lot of people angry. Shit happens. Los Angeles, CA.
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