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This is the place on Pine that used to be Rancho Bravo Tacos, next to the Black Lives Matter mural. In pic 2 you can see the Black Lives Matter in the mural but shortened to BLM. The speech bubble saying “Amigo” appears to come from the taco place where the viewer is standing, Also shows Cal Anderson Park across the street and the skyscrapers of Bellevue at the top. I-5 in the mural has a lot of local tags (BTM, MRSA, DOTCOM) and it looks like some people defaced the mural by adding their own tags, but at least they were thoughtful enough to do it on the parts of the mural depicting surfaces where there was already “graffiti”. There is also a cybertruck on I-5 with a big dick and balls on it and I can’t tell if the d&b was part of the original artwork. El Capitan apartments is depicted as “El Clapitan”. Did it get that nickname once when it was know for illicit trade happening in the rooms? Google didn’t turn up anything suggesting that. The panel on the right (pic 8) depicts Capitol Hill street names in hieroglyphics, except for the last line which spells something else. The street name I was stuck on the longest was the third one, but I got it eventually. One of the concrete structures on I-5 even has the ubiquitous white-bearded-guy on it (there still seems to be no consensus on who that actually is). Mural credited to artbreakerbt on instagram. Happy #MuralMonday! submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
