“At least twice a day, you could see Ringo either walking up North Avenue, riding his bike or getting on the bus headed to the lakefront,” Brehmer says. She doesn’t remember the first time she met Ringo but says that it feels like he’s always been a fixture in the community. For Ringo, it's just all one beautiful dance.' “It wasn't compartmentalized the way so many of us move through our lives. Xcaret Nuñez 'I was really attracted to how closely his artwork aligns with his life,' says Debra Brehmer, owner and director of the Portrait Society, about Ringo’s artwork. She says she’s been an admirer of Ringo’s artwork since the late ’80s, when she published an art magazine called Art Muscle and had some of her college students in the late 2000s study his artwork. She helped me get in touch with Ringo after I noticed she held a showcase of Ringo’s artwork in 2009. But he’s not just a beachgoer - he’s an artist.ĭebra Brehmer is the owner and director of the Portrait Society, a contemporary art gallery in the Third Ward. Still, Ringo spends a lot of time at Bradford Beach. I bet I could take a walk on Greenfield Avenue and I'd run into some people I know.” “There are quite a few people I know in West Allis. “People know me around the East Side and down on the South Sides, Ringo says. He also says he hasn’t driven a car since the ’80s and prefers to get around town by foot, bike or bus. He says his real name is Mike White, but he received his famous nickname in 1963 when The Beatles were popular and his nose resembled that of Ringo Starr’s. Ringo says he appreciated Dick Bacon’s love for the limelight, but he prefers to stay low-key.

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