in 1973, artist Raymond Chorneau moved into a one car garage on 4th Place, one block up from the Strand. this was to be his first studio. he boiled water on a hotplate, drank folgers instant and hand rolled his cigarettes. from fall to spring he could eat the clams dug up using his toes at low tide and as such he lived as well as any of the characters John Steinbeck wrote about. using newsprint glued to tarpaper with latex housepaint he painted many paintings. some of these brought him his earliest successes.