It is not known when BCNC's club insignia was adapted from the Bulldog head that was used for years on the Golden Gate KC's trophies and catalogues.  That club had many bulldog fanciers officers but its use of the Bulldog head ceased about the time of World War II.

BCNC remained a parlor-sized organization until after the War when 1947-1950 saw a sudden surge in showing and dog club activity everywhere in the state.  In 1948, Mabel Fox's famed Zorro Torro kennels burned and BCNC lost all its early club records.

In 1950, the Bulldog Club of America reorganized and BCNC became a member club of BCA's Division III, which consists of Arizona, Hawaii, California and Nevada.  On March 21, 1960, BCNC was incorporated in San Francisco and began to grow steadily from a 40-50 member organization to its present strength of about 200 members.

By 1970, it hosted its first National Weekend.  BCNC has monthly meetings with educational programs at which all persons, members or non-members, are welcome and boasts one of the most democratically-elected body of officers and specialty judges of any Bulldog club in the United States.  BCNC is a non-profit club and each year for the past 15 it has selected, under advisement of its members, a bay area SPCA or other animal-oriented organization to which it donates a sum of money.  On extreme emergency occasions such as the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 and the great East Bay fire of 1991, BCNC immediately mailed the closest SPCA's checks to facilitate their aid to injured and lost animals.  For the past few years it has conducted a smoothly functioning Rescue Service to heal and find homes for forlorn Bulldogs.

BCNC has instituted features no other Bulldog club can claim --- It's annual Sportsmanship and Service Awards were donated by the premier English breed judge Mr. Arthur Westlake (Baytor) for his historical collection --- Each year at its specialty there is a foreign exchange trophy table, the envy of Bulldog clubs everywhere.

During the 1980's BCNC celebrated its Golden Decade in Bulldogs which was climaxed by hosting the BCA National Show in 1987.  BCNC is proud of its achievements in the past and is looking forward to its future with anticipation.

BCNC is not given to individual kudos --- It discourages perpetual trophies.  Is has generally regarded itself and its members as a unit -- with one exception.  Mrs. Dorthy Whipple-Sutcliff (Charl-Doro, Reg.), whose lifetime provides BCNC with a living link to its past, has been a BCNCer since 1935.  Her late husband, Gerald, was our trophy chairman for 17 years.  In 1981, BCNC, in acknowledgment of her official services to the club and, above all, to our bulldog breed, created for her a special niche and plaque.

In the early 1970's, the transfer of its general membership meetings from San Francisco to the Peninsula and the East Bay, where most of the members lived, helped build BCNC to the club it is today.  In 1975, much to its own surprise, BCNC hosted the largest Bulldog specialty in the USA, exceeding even that year's National.

BCNC would not have become the club it is today without the dedicated labor of its many members past and present -- much of it unsung but never forgotten.  There are many areas in which you can serve.  Pick your spot.  The Bulldog Club of Northern California needs you today and tomorrow.

(The above history was compiled and written by B.M. Thackrey)