murals on your travels

[jguerin77]

[SavannahCapt]

Originally Posted by jguerin77

You had a busy day.

[jguerin77]

Originally Posted by SavannahCapt

You had a busy day.

We actually spent the weekend riding for murals. lol We left out yesterday morning in 36 degree weather and rode about 175 miles to find the Superman mural in Bronte, Texas. On the way we rode through Tennyson, Texas as well. Was enough to make an English teacher's heart go all a flutter....;)

We found some new places and lots of great murals. Got to see Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum for the first time. Very interesting!

Stayed overnight in San Angelo, saw more murals this morning, and rode back 200 miles in sunny but incredibly windy weather. Love those Texas landscapes!

How you been?

J.

[SavannahCapt]

Originally Posted by jguerin77

We actually spent the weekend riding for murals. lol We left out yesterday morning in 36 degree weather and rode about 175 miles to find the Superman mural in Bronte, Texas. On the way we rode through Tennyson, Texas as well. Was enough to make an English teacher's heart go all a flutter....;)

We found some new places and lots of great murals. Got to see Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum for the first time. Very interesting!

Stayed overnight in San Angelo, saw more murals this morning, and rode back 200 miles in sunny but incredibly windy weather. Love those Texas landscapes!

How you been?

J.

Good thanks. Not riding much. I really don't like the cold wet grey days. Remind me of Tennessee winters. Many years ago I visited a bordello museum in either Victor or Leadville, Colorado.

[TeneRay]

Taos, Nuevo Mexico

[jguerin77]

Originally Posted by SavannahCapt

Good thanks. Not riding much. I really don't like the cold wet grey days. Remind me of Tennessee winters. Many years ago I visited a bordello museum in either Victor or Leadville, Colorado.

I am not much on the cold and wet for riding either, but I think I'd be up for just about anything in Savannah. ;)

I had never been to a bordello museum.....I would love to read some of the diaries of the women working there back then. They things they could reveal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDaWr9w0a0Q

Take care,

Jill

[jguerin77]

[Mudclod]

Great images JG77, you hit the jackpot with mural's this weekend!

[jguerin77]

Originally Posted by Mudclod

Great images JG77, you hit the jackpot with mural's this weekend!

Well, thanks! I am fascinated by murals. Love to ride and find them!

[jguerin77]

Who couldn't use a little bling?

[Duelsporter]

Apparently, bears can't always "go" in the woods.........



I've passed by this sign many times, but it was always old and faded, like it had been there for 50+ years. Recently I rode by it, and they had repainted it. I liked it better old and faded.

[MortimerSickle]

Originally Posted by Duelsporter

...they had repainted it. I liked it better old and faded.

I understand your point, and agree with your thinking on that, but I saw something worse happen here in Portland.

A few years back, the pealing paint on an old warehouse in the southeast part of town had revealed an advertisement for Studebaker Carriages- yeah, not automobiles, carriages, an old sign indeed. I drove by that building every evening on my way home from work, and every time I looked at the sign, I wished someone would do something to preserve it. Then one day I found it had been painted over- not repainted, but just painted over with the same beige paint that they had used to cover the rest of the building. I get angry all over again every time I think about it.

Maybe the sign could have been preserved as it was, maybe not. If not, I wish they had restored it as closely as possible to the original- anything but paint it over.

I can only hope that the new paint is of poor enough quality that it will do like the old paint did and someday peal away, once again revealing the sign.

Maybe my grandchildren will get to see it.

[orbiker]

Originally Posted by MortimerSickle

I understand your point, and agree with your thinking on that, but I saw something worse happen here in Portland.

A few years back, the pealing paint on an old warehouse in the southeast part of town had revealed an advertisement for Studebaker Carriages- yeah, not automobiles, carriages, an old sign indeed. I drove by that building every evening on my way home from work, and every time I looked at the sign, I wished someone would do something to preserve it. Then one day I found it had been painted over- not repainted, but just painted over with the same beige paint that they had used to cover the rest of the building. I get angry all over again every time I think about it.

Maybe the sign could have been preserved as it was, maybe not. If not, I wish they had restored it as closely as possible to the original- anything but paint it over.

I can only hope that the new paint is of poor enough quality that it will do like the old paint did and someday peal away, once again revealing the sign.

Maybe my grandchildren will get to see it.

Portland, Oregon is not into history. Neither is Eugene. I was born in Eugene and I am still here, but I moved to Springfield.

[jguerin77]

Originally Posted by Duelsporter

Apparently, bears can't always "go" in the woods.........



I've passed by this sign many times, but it was always old and faded, like it had been there for 50+ years. Recently I rode by it, and they had repainted it. I liked it better old and faded.

Still looks very cool!

[Paambu]