Around 50 people gathered on the corner of 16th and Capp streets on Saturday to share memories and pay their respects to Ronnie Goodman, an artist and distance runner who lived on that corner for years and died there last Friday morning at the age of 60.
With the paint he used for his artwork still splattered on the sidewalk and some of that artwork displayed on the side of what used to be the City Club bar, friends and family remembered Goodman as a man who struggled for much of his life but found reprieve in art and running.
“He’s an institution on this corner,” said his friend Walter, who goes by the nickname “Coach.”
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Goodman grew up in San Francisco, spending much of his childhood living in the projects in the Fillmore, said Goodman’s wife, Tanya Goodman, who was at the memorial on Saturday afternoon.
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They had three children together and married in their early 20s.
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