Captain Byrde began his entertainment career as a street performer on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. For a whole decade, the Captain terrorized tourists from all over the world as his birds, Lady Domonique, and Lord Reggae performed tricks and posed for photos. In the late 1980's, event planners began booking him for corporate events, fairs and festivals. The Captain is no longer seen on Fisherman's Wharf, but his stint there was so memorable that corporate planners now create backdrops for "Streets of San Francisco" parties; in other words they bring the people and the Wharf to the Captain.

In 1997, Captain Byrde created a web page which slowly accumulated too many bells and whistles. He decided, for business purposes, to simplify the page into what you are looking at now. However, too much work went into his old page, and he just can't give it up. So for you diehard fans out there, you can access his old web page at: