Our dear friend, Mark E. Rennie, now resides with the Angels and Devils. ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mark1stTable-225x300.jpg\")
We hosted a tribute dinner honoring him, with his sister Alice Rennie in attendance. Given Alice’s no cheese or cream dietary restrictions, ChezHelvetica’s Frittata this evening consisted of onions, assorted vegetables from the local VA Farmers Market, potatoes, eggs, non-diary almond milk and artichoke\/garlic sausage.<\/p>\n
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We showed Alice the Schefflera plant he gave us as a housewarming gift 40 years ago, which is now 14′ tall. We call this plant “Mark&Minnie<\/em>” since this was also a gift from the delightful Minnie who always asked “How are we going to make some money honey?<\/em>“ <\/p>\n From the ArtSeder<\/em> he co-hosted in the ’80s to our annual “Dock of the Bay” birthday celebrations for him, Mark was the Emperor. Hail to The Emperor!<\/strong><\/p>\n Our dear friend, Mark E. Rennie, now resides with the Angels and Devils. We hosted a tribute dinner honoring him, with his sister Alice Rennie in attendance. Given Alice’s no cheese or cream dietary restrictions, ChezHelvetica’s Frittata this evening consisted of onions, assorted vegetables from the local VA Farmers Market, potatoes, eggs, non-diary almond milk … Continue reading “Hail to The Emperor!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[516,263],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-mark-rennie","tag-va-farmers-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10724,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Schefflera-150x150.jpg\")
We talked about Mark’s founding of the iconic Billboard Cafe and Club Nine at Ninth and Folsom (in South of Market SOMA, San Francisco) and his many art and entertainment involvements.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Billboard-Cafe-150x150.jpg\")
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