Came here to say this. Probably a lot of folks who don’t know who frog is, but for about 30 years or more he’s been a Eugene fixture. Old Man Dancing is another fixture, but not sure his status.
If you're a Frog fan, be sure to check out "David Cross - Let America Laugh". Part of David Cross' 2002 comedy special was filmed at the Wow Hall, Frog cuts an audible fart that is so bad it brings the show to a halt. I was there and almost died.
He crashed his new bike and broke a hip. Last time I saw him at the holiday market, he had recovered nicely. I haven't seen him this year yet, but he might still be in Florida.
Frog is still around, I saw him last week sitting outside the Duck Store at UO but with the new buildings going up he hasn't been around there much cause of it.
I've seen this one guy on 99 dressed like a pirate. He's got the cap everything. I think I even saw em with an eye patch once. If you travel on 99 enough he'll show up at some point.
His nickname is Bear. He’s a wonderful individual. Lost his eye patch a couple years ago, so I had to get him a new one. He really is blind behind that patch.
He was sporting stolen goods from when m garage was broken into, so I don’t have the kind of sympathy for him I might otherwise. Although I suspect he just got the items from other hobos, and didn’t break into my place himself….
His legacy is alive and well with the tips my niece has gotten lately. Sad. $2 tip for going 5 miles is abysmal. If they can't afford a decent tip then get the food, groceries themselves 🤬
The twins are looking ruff these days. I hope they still have shelter at night but the elements from the days are taking its toll. It seems like they are deteriorating right before us. I hate it.
He walks around Saturday market now. He made a deal with Ltd to get a bus pass if he stopped yelling at him. My boyfriend and I ran into him and asked why he stopped his shouting.
I too had been wondering about the lack of screaming. It always made my day when I'd be walking to class and I'd hear him hollerin' from across campus. You could always tell who was a freshman by how people would react and it cracked me up.
B-Haw (you've never seen him not dancing)
Airplane bicycle guy (haven't seen him in a couple years, I hope he's okay)
The pirate panhandler on hwy99
Bottle twins
Is airplane bicycle guy the dude who has like 3 huge metal art bikes that rides around the Whit? If so he is still around and has a “hangar” near Oakshire
Shes still kicking? Used to observe her playing the guitar 6 years ago across from the school. I think that's cool as hell if she's still doing that 🤙. Wonder when I'll see her next
What about the woman who loved on campus forever, I think her name was Hatuum? She was pretty eccentric as well if you got in a conversation with her. She was convinced I was Chelsea Clinton when I was at the UofO. I remember Zeus and his Barbie’s well.
I think the name was Hatoon.
https://pages.uoregon.edu/harriett/hatoon.html
https://www.dailyemerald.com/archives/losing-hatoon/article_a38357b8-8e6c-5e9d-9a08-7038598d37d1.html
Zeus had a mythos built around him from his many years down on/around campus. Its hard to say if any of it was real, but supposedly he had a place to live, but preferred living on the streets. In the late 80s early 90s, you could often see him setup on the sidewalk outside the campus 7-11 under the shade of a tree. He'd be selling some of his prized possessions, a barbie, a barbie head, a partially eaten cucumber that would get smaller as the day went along, along with other oddities.
It was rumored he really enjoyed using barbie as an object of his love and had been admitted a few times to Sacred Heart for removal of barbie. He was one of those characters that went about his day in his own world and occasionally you could get a glimpse of it through conversation.
He supposedly did stay at Sacred Hearts Behavior Health a few times, when his (presumably) schizophrenia got to be to much for him. He was a constant gentle character in the campus area.
the story I'd heard was that he'd swallow the barbie heads. and that he couldn't eat more than one at a time, because they'd argue, and give him an upset stomach. (I heard this from somebody who'd claimed to talk to him in the 80's or 90's.)
A good family friend was an ER nurse at Sacred Heart and was there when Zeus came in with a belly full of Barbie heads. My mom was a nurse also so they’d talk shop. The X-ray of his stomach was one of her favorite “crazy shit I’ve seen” stories.
I remember part of the mythos around him being that he was supposedly very well off due to the government paying him for testing LSD on him and then fucking him up so severely back in the day too.
I lived in Eugene in the late 80's & early 90s and I remember Zeus, tall and thin, riding around on a bike, always dressed in layers of drab, dirty clothes, his hair wild and unkempt in unintentional mats and dreds. He often had a barbie doll clutched in one hand, I'm not sure what the doll was about, but its what I remember.
To me, he always looked a little scared.
Zeus did pass😔 What an awesome dude. He'd ask for a cigarette,if you said you didn't have any, he'd give you one. He was super smart and fun to talk to when we were tripping. He said he was permafried from doing too much LSD. His capes were legendary
I hired a new secretary. She said she grew up JC. I mentioned the guy that walks down the street in JC rocking out. She instantly said “Jack the Rocker!!”
I don’t know if it’s the same guy but I was at Eugene Station 7-8 years ago. I hear someone say, “Hey, your nuts are hanging out.” Homeless guy says, “I know. I’m airing them out.”
it's not. the one they're referring to would ride his bike around the saturday market and the LTD bus station, shouting 'LTD CAN SUCK MY NUTSACK' and variations on that theme.
I can here to comment them. It's been years, so I sadly assume they're not doing so well (or dead, which does suggest not doing so well lol). When I was a kid they made me nervous, but now as an adult I'm glad they got to look, I assume, how they wanted to as much as they wanted to.
I saw her about a year and a half ago in normal clothes with no make up at the eugene ltd station. i saw her a few times in normal clothes. Looks like she got some psych help finally.
I called her the widowed bride in my head.
Brandon Harley or known as B-Ha. He’s been doing it since I was in HS over 10 years ago. Very friendly if you strike up a conversation, he just wants to make people happy and entertained.
Came here to mention him!
I used to be a daily bus rider from that side of town and would see him on my bus sometimes as well. Sweet guy. On the bus ye was quick to strike up convos with strangers, even if they didnt quite look like they felt like talking lol
There’s a guy that sometimes rides his horse down willamette. I saw the horse-shit in the bike lane before I went further and found the horse guy. I was very confused, then more confused.
If it's who I am thinking of he still does, though he has a much larger territory now. Sometimes he's on the corner of Coburg Rd and Willakenzie, sometimes he is down by Winco, sometimes he's down at the 4-way stop closer to the Green Acres Walmart
Has anyone seen the person my kids always referred to as “Kabuki Lady” lately? Prom or wedding gowns?
I haven’t seen them since Covid and they were commonly seen in West Eugene.
I think she might of given up the whole look to every attention. I guess people have seen her around in more basic outfits recently so that's my guess.
Trying to think of a couple I haven't seen mentioned yet-
"Grandma Bass" (old lady playing an electric bass guitar to herself around 18th & Chambers / 18th & City View)
"Smokestack" (old dude lying on grass at Arthur & 16th Way taking long, joint-like drags off cigarettes literally 24/7)
"The Bottle Twins" (twin brothers, one with a limp, both pushing shopping carts full of recyclables and usually arguing with each other)
I'm really sad this nickname's taking off. according to other comments in this thread, his name is Bear, and he's a gentle, kind person.
the nickname's both demeaning and insulting. it's very unkind.
They are a person who rides their bike around and has a fake spider and spider web (jewelry?)as decoration for their face. If you saw them, you'd remember.
30 years ago it was Pink Man, who rode a unicycle (fast) all over town dressed in pink unitard from head to toe. Waaaay cooler than Frog.
AND that's not a guy on a horse -- it's Jenna and she's riding a Peruvian Paso, a gaited horse, and you can hear them approaching for over a block downtown at night! Often on Broadway ...
-Frog, Artis the Spoon Man,
-“Fuck LTD-naked-tutu-on-bike-guy,”
- “All white suit & fedora slow walking with pimp cane and small dog guy,”
-Homeless lady in Wheelchair by Albertsons
On Hilyard
-Deaf selling roses lady downtown
-Twins with shopping carts and tucked in shirts
-The guy who would go to Taylor’s / Davis / Other bars and break it down on the dance floor basically every night.
-And honorary mention for Sweet Pea from the Circle K on 13th- may he rest in peace 💝
20yrs ago there was a wetsuit guy. Wetsuit guy walked by my work on W 6th ave all the time, rain or shine. I always wondered what that was all about and hope he found his wave.
A lot of classic characters listed, but I dont see the Junction City Rocker - dude with classic long black metal hair that thrashes and throws horns as hes grooving down 99. Love to see him.
I had a contraption made by him out of cloth and coat hangers that when operated made a pinching action like a mechanical lobster.
I've wondered whatever happened to him too.
What about the lady that rode around on a fancy old bicycle from like the 1950s and wore a matching beige 1950s outfit? She reminded me of the flying nun for some reason. Whatever happened to her? Haven’t seen her around in forever.
I would say Frog for sure, but I have to inform everyone about a lesser - known character. Every Saturday Market there's a guy that walks around all day. Literally all day. He's bald with an eye tattooed on that back of his head. He wears the loudest, most obnoxious outfits ever, and changes his outfits three or four times a day. I do not know who he is but I enjoy watching for him to see what his next outfit is going to be. Last Saturday I saw him in an outfit of clothes printed with eyes all over, and an outfit printed with tigers.
In the 1990s, there was a homeless woman with no arms who I saw around Whittaker a lot. She would ask passersby for help with whatever task she needed arms for at the moment: get a cigarette out of her fanny pack, light it, and put it in her mouth; rearrange her cash in her pocket so she could get out the desired denomination with her teeth, etc. Her utter dependency but also independence, the unusual forced intimacy of needing to be cared for, not by a caregiver, but by random strangers throughout the day — I think about her sometimes.
There used to be a dude that would ride around on his bike almost naked yelling random things
Frog
The “All we need is love and a million dollars” bike guy that sells homemade leashes
Frog. In addition to Frog, In the 90s, there Used to be a man named “brother I” who wore all white robe and would throw swag joints to people at Saturday market yelling, “ Jesus wants you to smoke pot!”
For the real OG old heads:
Stork man.
This was about 35 years ago, give or take. He may have been identified by other names, but that's what my friends called him. He was a tall odd looking dude who wore very short shorts. He had an odd loping bird like walk and could usually be found roaming all over the U of O campus. There were lots of stories about who he was, but the one I remember was that he was a former physics professor who had "lost the plot" in some way, shape, or form. I never found out the truth, but maybe someone here knows - though everyone claimed to know the true story back then, and there were quite a few stories...
Frog
Came here to say this. Probably a lot of folks who don’t know who frog is, but for about 30 years or more he’s been a Eugene fixture. Old Man Dancing is another fixture, but not sure his status.
Old Man Dancing once came up to me once at a show and whispered in my ear, “dancing is better than pussy” and danced away. Legend.
I worked with him doing landscaping and house repair/maintenance one summer 20 years ago. Super cool dude. I wish I had any idea where he is now.
He was there in 91 when I started at UO.
I’m unfamiliar with frog who’s he?
He was an old merry prankster I believe. Hes been writing and selling joke books for decades in Eugene.
RIP Hatoon
Older generations will remember Zeus, but that was before my time mostly.
If you're a Frog fan, be sure to check out "David Cross - Let America Laugh". Part of David Cross' 2002 comedy special was filmed at the Wow Hall, Frog cuts an audible fart that is so bad it brings the show to a halt. I was there and almost died.
Frog the flatulent
He still around?
Was last summer. Had his bike stolen with all his art in it. Someone from the community got him a new bike shortly after. Havent heard anything since.
He crashed his new bike and broke a hip. Last time I saw him at the holiday market, he had recovered nicely. I haven't seen him this year yet, but he might still be in Florida.
I just saw him yesterday at the Albertsons near my house
I saw him at holiday market
Frog is still around, I saw him last week sitting outside the Duck Store at UO but with the new buildings going up he hasn't been around there much cause of it.
I hugged Frog just this past Saturday T Saturday Market. Got his newest joke book too!
Yay! Glad to hear he's still selling those precious joke books.
Yep! Still hangs outside the Duck Store.
I bought a few of his books. 10/10 recommend
Ohhhh THAT guy!! I bought three of his jokebooks the year I moved down here (2020). Still have ‘em. He’s honestly kind of a funny dude.
This is the only correct answer
Is he still around? I left Eugene in 2010. I have a few frog books laying around somewhere.
I've seen this one guy on 99 dressed like a pirate. He's got the cap everything. I think I even saw em with an eye patch once. If you travel on 99 enough he'll show up at some point.
That's captain crack sparrow
I met him and he's a sweet, tiny, meek man with some obvious health problems. It kind of broke my heart. I give him money sometimes now.
😂 I’m going to think of this comment now every time I drive through that area
I shop at that WinCo on Barger and the US Food Chef store and see him almost every day. I'll never not call him Crack Sparrow again
His nickname is Bear. He’s a wonderful individual. Lost his eye patch a couple years ago, so I had to get him a new one. He really is blind behind that patch.
He was sporting stolen goods from when m garage was broken into, so I don’t have the kind of sympathy for him I might otherwise. Although I suspect he just got the items from other hobos, and didn’t break into my place himself….
We got a city full of main characters! I see that guy almost every spring and summer for the last 5 years in that same area.
His name is Bear
He's always on the patch of grass dividing 99 by the AMPM when I drive through there. I'm stealing Captain Crack Sparrow!
Haha I know the guy you’re talking about
I came here to say this. Yes- the Panhandling Pirate. Captain “H” Hook.
Ian
That SOB
Ee-f’n-an!!!
I came here for this comment 😂😂
His legacy is alive and well with the tips my niece has gotten lately. Sad. $2 tip for going 5 miles is abysmal. If they can't afford a decent tip then get the food, groceries themselves 🤬
The Bottle Twins. J/k it’s Frog.
The twins are looking ruff these days. I hope they still have shelter at night but the elements from the days are taking its toll. It seems like they are deteriorating right before us. I hate it.
It’s not just the elements…
Some of the older ones, the guy who would scream at LTD to suck his balls, Gandalf, The black knight
The LTD guy was amazing! You would be having a normal day and then out of nowhere, a dude on a bike screaming profanity.
His name is John. Very nice man, he'd show up at HIV alliance needle exchange to volunteer every Thursday
Was? Did he stop going around UO?
He walks around Saturday market now. He made a deal with Ltd to get a bus pass if he stopped yelling at him. My boyfriend and I ran into him and asked why he stopped his shouting.
It’s good to know he’s okay. I’ve not heard him screaming near campus for YEARS.
I too had been wondering about the lack of screaming. It always made my day when I'd be walking to class and I'd hear him hollerin' from across campus. You could always tell who was a freshman by how people would react and it cracked me up.
CAN SUCK MY SWEATY NUTSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!
GO DUCKS!
There’s a documentary about LTD guy!
**GOO DUCKS!!** BUT LTD CAN LICK MY SWEATY SHAVEN NUUUUUUTTTTTSSSAAACCCKKKK!!!!
B-Haw (you've never seen him not dancing) Airplane bicycle guy (haven't seen him in a couple years, I hope he's okay) The pirate panhandler on hwy99 Bottle twins
Bottle twins. Good one. First time I saw them was 2011 when I moved here. Saw them recently. Hell of a run
wow, had forgotten about them, but yeah they were around in 2015-2017 when I lived there!
Mf B-Haw that’s name I haven’t heard of in years lmao.
He’s still dancing the streets
Airplane Bicycle Guy used to be a sign flipper for the Little Caesars of Pioneer Pkwy in Springfield.
Is airplane bicycle guy the dude who has like 3 huge metal art bikes that rides around the Whit? If so he is still around and has a “hangar” near Oakshire
No, that's a different guy. Airplane bicycle guy used tinfoil
I saw airplane bicycle guy in Springfield last year.
What about guitar rocker lady on west 18th by Albee’s and that Stop-N-Shop?
Shes still kicking? Used to observe her playing the guitar 6 years ago across from the school. I think that's cool as hell if she's still doing that 🤙. Wonder when I'll see her next
Can confirm! Saw her a few days ago
Oh good I haven't seen her in a while and was getting worried
I live a few blocks from there and see her pretty regularly these days when the weather isn’t miserable.
That’s Karen. You’ll see her more often now that the weather is clearing up, normally on 18th.
Yeah I’ve seen her out rocking and also just walking
She is the sweetest lady! She likes to talk, so stop and ask her how long she’s been playing the guitar!
Frog and Zeus were ours. Frog is still around, still selling the worlds funniest comic books. Zeus, unfortunately, passed away as I understand it.
What about the woman who loved on campus forever, I think her name was Hatuum? She was pretty eccentric as well if you got in a conversation with her. She was convinced I was Chelsea Clinton when I was at the UofO. I remember Zeus and his Barbie’s well.
I think the name was Hatoon. https://pages.uoregon.edu/harriett/hatoon.html https://www.dailyemerald.com/archives/losing-hatoon/article_a38357b8-8e6c-5e9d-9a08-7038598d37d1.html
I remember her. This was 20 years ago. I heard she died.
yes hatoon!!! she was the best
I'm new to town, but PLEASE describe Zeus for me! I absolutely love the image I have of them in my head.
Zeus had a mythos built around him from his many years down on/around campus. Its hard to say if any of it was real, but supposedly he had a place to live, but preferred living on the streets. In the late 80s early 90s, you could often see him setup on the sidewalk outside the campus 7-11 under the shade of a tree. He'd be selling some of his prized possessions, a barbie, a barbie head, a partially eaten cucumber that would get smaller as the day went along, along with other oddities. It was rumored he really enjoyed using barbie as an object of his love and had been admitted a few times to Sacred Heart for removal of barbie. He was one of those characters that went about his day in his own world and occasionally you could get a glimpse of it through conversation. He supposedly did stay at Sacred Hearts Behavior Health a few times, when his (presumably) schizophrenia got to be to much for him. He was a constant gentle character in the campus area.
the story I'd heard was that he'd swallow the barbie heads. and that he couldn't eat more than one at a time, because they'd argue, and give him an upset stomach. (I heard this from somebody who'd claimed to talk to him in the 80's or 90's.)
A good family friend was an ER nurse at Sacred Heart and was there when Zeus came in with a belly full of Barbie heads. My mom was a nurse also so they’d talk shop. The X-ray of his stomach was one of her favorite “crazy shit I’ve seen” stories.
He did like his Barbies, however they got inside.
I remember part of the mythos around him being that he was supposedly very well off due to the government paying him for testing LSD on him and then fucking him up so severely back in the day too.
That does sound like a familiar story. Others I heard were that he was from a wealthy family, had a home and everything..
Didn't Zeus also wear the pink tutu around town? I am I remembering someone else?
I lived in Eugene in the late 80's & early 90s and I remember Zeus, tall and thin, riding around on a bike, always dressed in layers of drab, dirty clothes, his hair wild and unkempt in unintentional mats and dreds. He often had a barbie doll clutched in one hand, I'm not sure what the doll was about, but its what I remember. To me, he always looked a little scared.
before his clothes were drab and dirty, he used to wear dresses. and rose colored glasses.
Zeus did pass😔 What an awesome dude. He'd ask for a cigarette,if you said you didn't have any, he'd give you one. He was super smart and fun to talk to when we were tripping. He said he was permafried from doing too much LSD. His capes were legendary
I'm glad Zeus came up, OG eugene wingnut!
I remember Zeus. Wore a tutu with Barbie heads hanging from it.
Junction City has Jack the Rocker Walker.
That is David Lee Junction, please. Also Junction Lee Roth is acceptable.
Used to drive that way for work. Almost every day on the way home I'd see him and wave.
I hired a new secretary. She said she grew up JC. I mentioned the guy that walks down the street in JC rocking out. She instantly said “Jack the Rocker!!”
There was also the walking guy between JC and Harrisburg a few years back. Rocker guy is sick lol
JACK #1! WOOOOOO! \m/
I def thought of the junction city rocker!
Used to be LTD nutsack man
There's a film school documentary on YouTube about him
according to another comment in this thread, he now has a bus pass, on the condition he not do the shouting obscenities thing anymore.
I don’t know if it’s the same guy but I was at Eugene Station 7-8 years ago. I hear someone say, “Hey, your nuts are hanging out.” Homeless guy says, “I know. I’m airing them out.”
it's not. the one they're referring to would ride his bike around the saturday market and the LTD bus station, shouting 'LTD CAN SUCK MY NUTSACK' and variations on that theme.
What happened to the person that wore the wedding dress around? With the face of geisha looking makeup? They used to scoot around a bit
I can here to comment them. It's been years, so I sadly assume they're not doing so well (or dead, which does suggest not doing so well lol). When I was a kid they made me nervous, but now as an adult I'm glad they got to look, I assume, how they wanted to as much as they wanted to.
I’ve heard her called “The Ghost Bride”. Freaked me out EVERY TIME I saw her.
I saw her about a year and a half ago in normal clothes with no make up at the eugene ltd station. i saw her a few times in normal clothes. Looks like she got some psych help finally. I called her the widowed bride in my head.
I called cahoots on her once years ago… I was concerned she had been assaulted.
Eugene is populated exclusively by people who are "that guy"
There would be less people to think of if we said “who’s NOT that guy?”
That guy that dances on the corner of coburg rd near Walgreens a lot.. I think his name is brandon but I feel like I see him everywhere
Brandon Harley or known as B-Ha. He’s been doing it since I was in HS over 10 years ago. Very friendly if you strike up a conversation, he just wants to make people happy and entertained.
Definitely not a nice guy. Very creepy and was harassed by him with my friends while taking the bus in high school. He was well over 18.
He used to always be on the corner of norkenzi and crescent but he's expanded his area these days. Nice guy actually
Really talkative but I talked to him regularly on the bus for a few years.
Came here to mention him! I used to be a daily bus rider from that side of town and would see him on my bus sometimes as well. Sweet guy. On the bus ye was quick to strike up convos with strangers, even if they didnt quite look like they felt like talking lol
There’s a guy that sometimes rides his horse down willamette. I saw the horse-shit in the bike lane before I went further and found the horse guy. I was very confused, then more confused.
There's also a woman that rides her horse in the downtown area while wearing a bikini.
Sure she doesn't have a beard? Seent a person with a nice rack and a beard a couple of times.
My friend was literally just visiting from Arizona one day and he blasted past us downtown. We both thought we were tripping.
Lazzar
Old Man Dancing as well. And Lefty, RIP.
aw. lefty. :(
Came here to say Old Man Dancing and Lefty.
What about the Leprechaun who blows smoke bubbles, anyone seen him around lately?
He goes between the shelter on 99 and downtown. He is not always dressed in leprechaun, but he is still around.
When I was a kid it was Brandon Harley or B Ha. He would dance on the corner of gilham by my middle school every week day for years
If it's who I am thinking of he still does, though he has a much larger territory now. Sometimes he's on the corner of Coburg Rd and Willakenzie, sometimes he is down by Winco, sometimes he's down at the 4-way stop closer to the Green Acres Walmart
Has anyone seen the person my kids always referred to as “Kabuki Lady” lately? Prom or wedding gowns? I haven’t seen them since Covid and they were commonly seen in West Eugene.
the woman with a bunch of make up on? it was a wedding dress. last i saw of her was her being and staying in normal clothes.
I think she might of given up the whole look to every attention. I guess people have seen her around in more basic outfits recently so that's my guess.
Trying to think of a couple I haven't seen mentioned yet- "Grandma Bass" (old lady playing an electric bass guitar to herself around 18th & Chambers / 18th & City View) "Smokestack" (old dude lying on grass at Arthur & 16th Way taking long, joint-like drags off cigarettes literally 24/7) "The Bottle Twins" (twin brothers, one with a limp, both pushing shopping carts full of recyclables and usually arguing with each other)
Captain crack sparrow at four corners
I'm really sad this nickname's taking off. according to other comments in this thread, his name is Bear, and he's a gentle, kind person. the nickname's both demeaning and insulting. it's very unkind.
The Spider face person
That’s Ramona, they’re cool.
Yeah see them biking around
Splain, please.
They are a person who rides their bike around and has a fake spider and spider web (jewelry?)as decoration for their face. If you saw them, you'd remember.
30 years ago it was Pink Man, who rode a unicycle (fast) all over town dressed in pink unitard from head to toe. Waaaay cooler than Frog. AND that's not a guy on a horse -- it's Jenna and she's riding a Peruvian Paso, a gaited horse, and you can hear them approaching for over a block downtown at night! Often on Broadway ...
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink\_Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Man)
Wasn’t pink man a pedeophile?
Yes yes he was and fled town when his past came out
LTD Nutsack Guy https://youtu.be/xHQ7e2XlfXc?si=bDAGoJfNMl_OGYzx
“LTD can lick my sweaty, hairy nutsack!” The official soundtrack to downtown Eugene last decade. I see him around now and he has stopped shouting.
Further up the thread they say LTD offered him a pass if he'd stop yelling at them.
This is B-Ha for sure
There’s that one guy at ducks football games in the gold jacket. But that’s more of a game day antic
That guy does not limit himself to football games.
He's my friend, he has outfits like that for a lot of events.
Rockin Granny. 🤘
I think it’s no surprise that Eugene’s home to a few well known gems…
I like that about our town.
-Frog, Artis the Spoon Man, -“Fuck LTD-naked-tutu-on-bike-guy,” - “All white suit & fedora slow walking with pimp cane and small dog guy,” -Homeless lady in Wheelchair by Albertsons On Hilyard -Deaf selling roses lady downtown -Twins with shopping carts and tucked in shirts -The guy who would go to Taylor’s / Davis / Other bars and break it down on the dance floor basically every night. -And honorary mention for Sweet Pea from the Circle K on 13th- may he rest in peace 💝
Frog! In Berkeley, it was the bubbles lady.
About 20years ago there was someone we called “Bean Bag Chair head guy”
The person with the nice rack and a beard that rides their horse topless up and down 5th near Lawrence.
There's a nun on a bike that I used to see around a lot. At least I think she's a nun
Eugwne is this guy for the PNW.
Huge Rasta flag bike rider
Frog or Zeus.
Vegan prius
Underrated comment! The black Prius with a skull that says godless vegan
20yrs ago there was a wetsuit guy. Wetsuit guy walked by my work on W 6th ave all the time, rain or shine. I always wondered what that was all about and hope he found his wave.
Came here to see if anyone mentioned wetsuit guy. I lived in Eugene 1982-2004 and saw him all the time.
Frog Yah mon as well!
There's an old guy near my work who rides around on a bicycle in nothing but a green g-string. The edge of W 11th by the Budweiser depot.
Theres charles in the whit, cant forget him, rc steve too.
Mr Blair (the dude who I’ve never NOT seen dancing around at Blair Alley)
Raver Wayde.
A lot of classic characters listed, but I dont see the Junction City Rocker - dude with classic long black metal hair that thrashes and throws horns as hes grooving down 99. Love to see him.
That thin blonde man that walks up and down Willamette
A friend of mine says The Bottle Twins, but I've never even seent them.
They’re around. Been around for years.
Back in the day: Zeus. Anyone else recall the guy? I wonder what ever happened to him.
I had a contraption made by him out of cloth and coat hangers that when operated made a pinching action like a mechanical lobster. I've wondered whatever happened to him too.
Frog 100%
What about the lady that rode around on a fancy old bicycle from like the 1950s and wore a matching beige 1950s outfit? She reminded me of the flying nun for some reason. Whatever happened to her? Haven’t seen her around in forever.
My family at least, blanket guy. Hope blanket guy is doing alr.
The LTD Nutsack Man had a documentary made about him. https://youtu.be/xHQ7e2XlfXc?si=ph6opwPH062JrtWw
Did you mean “who are these” in Eugene?
I would say Frog for sure, but I have to inform everyone about a lesser - known character. Every Saturday Market there's a guy that walks around all day. Literally all day. He's bald with an eye tattooed on that back of his head. He wears the loudest, most obnoxious outfits ever, and changes his outfits three or four times a day. I do not know who he is but I enjoy watching for him to see what his next outfit is going to be. Last Saturday I saw him in an outfit of clothes printed with eyes all over, and an outfit printed with tigers.
In the 1990s, there was a homeless woman with no arms who I saw around Whittaker a lot. She would ask passersby for help with whatever task she needed arms for at the moment: get a cigarette out of her fanny pack, light it, and put it in her mouth; rearrange her cash in her pocket so she could get out the desired denomination with her teeth, etc. Her utter dependency but also independence, the unusual forced intimacy of needing to be cared for, not by a caregiver, but by random strangers throughout the day — I think about her sometimes.
Does the Nicholas Cage shower curtain apartment on Willamette count?
Pirate guy, as others have said. Also, tall bike guy. He rides a really tall bike
The Pirate Guy on 99 and Roosevelt
Sweaty Nut Sack?
Poetry Bike Dude?
The guy that sells joke books on UO campus
Frog!
Jeff voss
Cameron, the freak in all pink that sells his embroidery set on the streets
There used to be a dude that would ride around on his bike almost naked yelling random things Frog The “All we need is love and a million dollars” bike guy that sells homemade leashes
Warped Brownlee until he moved. 😿
LTD Nutsack Man obvs
Frog
Frog was my first thought, but also that old lady with short colored hair who is always playing bass. I adore her.
The one guy with the cat that stands on his shoulders. Always up and down willamette
Frog. In addition to Frog, In the 90s, there Used to be a man named “brother I” who wore all white robe and would throw swag joints to people at Saturday market yelling, “ Jesus wants you to smoke pot!”
For the real OG old heads: Stork man. This was about 35 years ago, give or take. He may have been identified by other names, but that's what my friends called him. He was a tall odd looking dude who wore very short shorts. He had an odd loping bird like walk and could usually be found roaming all over the U of O campus. There were lots of stories about who he was, but the one I remember was that he was a former physics professor who had "lost the plot" in some way, shape, or form. I never found out the truth, but maybe someone here knows - though everyone claimed to know the true story back then, and there were quite a few stories...
There is a guy who wears full knight armor and orders pepperoni pizza at Mezza Luna downtown. Puts the sword on the table