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Just like that, a bit of Roslindale history disappears
By adamg on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 1:14pm
Sometime yesterday, workers painted over the "backwards" mural on the side of the Arboretum Grill, 4025 Washington St. The mural, painted as if it were a mirror looking back in time, showed two guys at a barbershop, in front of a series of fanciful "photos" of Roslindale history, with their titles backwards. Now all that's left is a bland, pale yellow wall.
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Mayor's Murals
I don't think this such a great loss. Most of this murals are really silly looking. This one included.
Well I liked it a lot.
In fact, I like most of the murals created by the Boston Youth Fund Mural Crew - although I'm not sure that this is actually one of theirs. Some are serious, some are just fun. Don't know what "Pablo P' has against public art, although his comment's title seems to indicate he's grinding some sort of misguided political axe.
I just hope something as cool is going up in it's place.
Same here...
...I too like the variety of murals one finds around Rozzie/JP/etc.. In addition to being a charming display of local youth art skills, the murals are much more interesting and visually appealing than Yet Another Blank Wall, and to some extent less alluring to taggers (with the lamentable exception of the mural on the South Street Apartments, which got defaced a month or two ago) to boot.
This mural is actually well
This mural is actually well done. And far superior to the run of the mill 'lets give some kids paint brushes so they don't shoot each other' crap you generally get. I wish they could hire kids for the summer to sandblast those monstrosities off of walls across the city.
I agree with you...
it really does not make sense to me. Kind of like a mishmash of stuff. And why and who is the priest (cleric, minister)? Just really weird.
There's still the not
There's still the not terrible "Goya" mural on the gross bodega up the street and the awfully uneven "Big Papi" mural in the other direction. There's also the really excellent mural behind Village Market and Bob's Pita that was actually painted by an artist. Then there the sorta lame "horn' o plenty" murals in the same parking lot. Fornax has a so-so mural by another artist and there's a pretty good Youth Corps one the old Emack and Bolios. All and all Rosi has better murals than most neighborhoods, just look at the terrible draftsmanship on the murals around Dudley.
Big Papi mural's been sorta defaced
There's now a large-ish framed ad for a telenovela right over the Series trophy.
The one in the Village Market/Bob's parking lot is really cool both because it's just nice as art and because it shows something most people don't even know about - that massive stone railroad arch at the site of the Bussey Bridge train disaster that led to Roslindale's growth (a lot of the people who came to gawk liked Roslindale enough to move there).
Bussey Bridge disaster
Fascinating. Never knew.
Here's a newspaper account of what happened that day, written March 15, 1887.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC...
The stone bridge is rather striking
Especially if you approach from the Washington Street side - you're on this quiet residential street and then boom, there's this imposing stone archway (and as imposing as it is, it might only be half as tall as the iron bridge that collapsed, so that must've been something). There's a little plaque on one side of the bridge about the disaster.
What street is this on?
I'm failing in my attempts to picture this location. ;~}
Archdale
From Washington, turn onto Archdale away from the project, by the Goya frying-things mural and it's the next block up.
I guess I've seen it, but...
... not realized its significance. ;~}
I give the new blank wall 48
I give the new blank wall 48 hours before someone "tags" it.