Smirk’s 49th Birthday

<div>April Fools’ at The Parrot: Smirk’s Birthday Party</div> <p></p> <div>Join Green Parrot well-wishers as we wish Green Parrot cultural icon, “Smirk,” a happy and healthy 49th birthday.</div> <p></p> <div>They grow up so fast!</div> <p></p> <div>Yes, it’s been 49 years since that enigmatic countenance, and that sphinx-like kisser, appeared on the plywood shutter on the Southard Street facade of The Green Parrot. Facing the barroom when the Parrot is open, and facing the street when we are closed, Smirk has, as we say, “seen it all.”</div> <p></p> <div>Inspired by an image from a National Geographic magazine, in the then-owners’ effort to dress the place up, Smirk leapt from the pallet of artist, and former Green Parrot bartender, Saul Paul Stewart in 1975 when amazingly, the only other things resembling art that adorned the Parrot’s walls were a rather grisly knock-off of the famous Karsh Hemingway portrait, also by Stewart, and an equally disturbing snow shovel with a few bullet holes in it.</div>