# Any cool murals in your neighborhood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373 "2017-08-22T16:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/1 "2017-08-22T16:03:49Z")
[This mural](https://goo.gl/photos/nDcVmWajS96NvndQ8) featuring a salmon and a beaver was just completed along the bike trail that I ride. It’s a nice change from the recurring graffiti that has marred the underpass for years. Further down the trail in Los Gatos there’s a mural of an [Ohlone Village](https://goo.gl/photos/pNYPWKbrPn1pjzXF7). What kind of murals do you have in your area? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/2 "2017-08-22T16:14:03Z")
The city of Palo Alto has a number of fun paintings. My favorite is the man pushing a stroller with an alien in it. Here’s a link to a [five page PDF](http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/4887) for the walking tour. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/3 "2017-08-22T16:18:47Z")
Austin has quite a few. I don’t know if [this one](https://www.google.com/search?biw=1439&bih=931&tbm=isch&q=austin+mural+i+love+you+so+much&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigkpnynuvVAhVL_IMKHXnEDkgQhyYIJg) is technically considered a mural, but it is certainly famous. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/4 "2017-08-22T16:19:49Z")
My “neighborhood” (so to speak) has Cairns. Some drunk guy :rolleyes: builds them when he takes his dogs out in the desert. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/5 "2017-08-22T16:22:23Z")
Tons. About 10-15 years ago there was a big push to makeover the city as an “arts district,” so they invited and incentivized a bunch of arty, crunchy people and businesses to come to town and make it a respectable place. Among the many murals that have come, gone, and/or stayed over the recent years: [War of 1812 mural](https://sagittariusdolly.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/photo216.jpg) [Mural on the side of a popular downtown restaurant](http://earthsign.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LizM-Franklins-kinetic-light-mural.jpg) [This one about the history of the area](https://www.flickr.com/photos/hyattsvillecdc/9216164731/in/album-72157630505697908/) [On the side of a printer’s building](https://www.flickr.com/photos/hyattsvillecdc/10822683166/in/album-72157630505697908/) There’s a ton of other arty stuff around town, but those are the murals that I see most frequently (and like). . ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/6 "2017-08-23T02:12:20Z")
Apparently Richmond, VA has a lot of murals. I’ve noticed them around and somehow I acquired a magazine what a map of dozens. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/7 "2017-08-23T03:33:37Z")
In Fresno there’s an automotive shop that specializes (or maybe once specialized) in air conditioning systems. His shop has a mural of an ice-skating penguin wearing a muffler (the cloth kind, not the automotive kind) around its neck. How “cool” is that? ETA: I just [found a picture of it](https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/9a_xceMq20LQie1d4xTloA/ls.jpg) on yelp. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/8 "2017-08-23T17:53:16Z")
We’ve got a mural in downtown Fort Myers on the side of the federal building. It’s sort of tucked away and it’s controversial since it is apparently about the governments efforts to eradicate the Seminole Indians, using black troops. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/9 "2017-08-23T18:05:12Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Austin has quite a few. I don’t know if [this one](https://www.google.com/search?biw=1439&bih=931&tbm=isch&q=austin+mural+i+love+you+so+much&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigkpnynuvVAhVL_IMKHXnEDkgQhyYIJg) is technically considered a mural, but it is certainly famous. This one’s in my end of town [https://www.google.com/search?biw=1077&bih=925&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=austin+Hi+how+are+you&oq=austin+Hi+how+are+you&gs\_l=psy-ab.3…0l3j0i8i30k1.73383.76799.0.77493.14.14.0.0.0.0.92.933.14.14.0…0…1.1.64.psy-ab…0.14.929.y2OapVWZqbQ](https://www.google.com/search?biw=1077&bih=925&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=austin+Hi+how+are+you&oq=austin+Hi+how+are+you&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l3j0i8i30k1.73383.76799.0.77493.14.14.0.0.0.0.92.933.14.14.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.14.929.y2OapVWZqbQ) It’s also an embroidery pattern [https://sublimestitching.com/collections/patterns/products/daniel-johnston-embroidery-patterns](https://sublimestitching.com/collections/patterns/products/daniel-johnston-embroidery-patterns) ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/10 "2017-08-23T18:14:06Z")
We’ve got [tons of them over in East L.A](https://www.google.com/search?q=east+los+angeles+murals&newwindow=1&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS751US751&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiatILH-u3VAhWLsFQKHWbRBJYQ_AUICigB&biw=1471&bih=532). It’s beautiful there. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cool-murals-in-your-neighborhood/794373/11 "2017-08-23T21:12:30Z")
I live in [Bristol](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bristol+graffiti&rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB686GB686&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRx6TMne7VAhWKKsAKHaVUCgcQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=662), England; you can barely walk down a street without seeing some pretty impressive murals/graffiti. They run tours, and have an annual festival dedicated to it. The problem is that in some of the most popular areas the turnover is so fast that favourite ones don’t last very long before being painted over, though some are sufficiently well established that I once saw an advert for a rental flat that had two pictures of the famous graffiti outside and none taken inside. I suspect the flat was a total dump, but still. One near me that I liked (before it got scribbled and eventually painted over) is [this](http://68.media.tumblr.com/8c6a1931dae411bcaa143459a081df50/tumblr_mp3gpgxhXM1qzfsnio1_1280.jpg) star wars one, but my personal favourite local street art isn’t a mural though, it’s [this](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7HxpKbW4AI4STL.jpg) wonderfully daft bit of nonsense.