Dog House Is History, And Historic

All roads now lead to the Museum of History and Industry. Earlier this week the museum moved the "all roads lead to the Dog House" mural from the now-shuttered Dog House restaurant into its "Seattle Hits" exhibit.

The mural, donated by restaurateur David Gulbransen, hung above the Dog House's lunch counter for more than 50 years. It's now displayed with such Seattle icons as the costumes of TV stars J.P. Patches and Patches' pal Gertrude, and artifacts from Frederick & Nelson and the Music Hall Theatre.

Also donated to the museum was the Dog House's exterior sign. The tail-wagging dog, thought to be Seattle's first moving neon sign, is not on display yet. Museum spokeswoman Mary Ann Barron says, "We'll have to clean and refurbish it first, then find a place to put it."

Driving test: Conservative Seattle Times columnist John Carlson and Seattle Post-Intelligencer business reporter Rebecca Boren are frequent sparring mates on KCTS-TV's "Week in Review." But no matter. Carlson offered to teach Boren, a nonmotorist, how to drive. She accepted the offer and started lessons in January.

Conventional wisdom to the contrary, it's not true that Carlson was teaching Boren to make only right turns. In fact, she says Carlson kept yelling, "Veer left. You're too far to the right."

But it is true that when Boren took her road test in Carlson's 214-horsepower Olds convertible last Friday, she flunked. It didn't help that she smacked into another vehicle (minimal damage) while backing up. Boren now is taking lessons from a professional driving instructor.

In tune: Does the name Lori Goldston ring a bell? Goldston, a cellist, will appear at the Pike Street Cinema on Sunday night. The theater is exhibiting "Berlin: Symphony of the City," a 1927 silent film that shows a day in the life of that city. Goldston will play from a new score, accompanying the screening.

But back to why Goldston's name should be familiar. Although one thinks of Nirvana as all male, Goldston last year went on tour with the band.

East of Eden: In its ads, Reno Air is running a map that shows such destinations as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas. But, when it comes to Seattle, the map encounters upper-air turbulence. It plunks Seattle down somewhere along the crest of the Cascade Range, miles from Puget Sound.

One assumes that pilots for Reno Air ("the biggest little airline in the world") have a better sense of direction than its ad agency.

Crossings: Culinary Seattle's loss is elementary Seattle's gain. Well-known restaurateur Bill Gasperetti, the longtime proprietor of Gasperetti's Roma Cafe at Fourth and Main, sold his restaurant in 1981. For a time, he worked for his cousin Victor Rosellini at Rosellini's Four-10 Restaurant.

Now Gasperetti is out of the kitchen and into the fresh air. He can be spotted twice a day at his post at 30th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 85th Street, working as a school crossing guard. Gasperetti jokes it's his Italian nose that serves as a beacon, reminding drivers to slow down and stop for schoolchildren.

Twosome: Over a meal the other night, attorney David Skellenger and architect Arne Bystrom hatched the nightmare presidential ticket for 1996: Oliver North and Tonya Harding.

Jean Godden's column appears Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Local News section of The Times. Her phone is 464-8300.