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This was the old location of the Punk Rock Flea Market on 17th Ave SW before they moved to their current location on 15th Ave in Capitol Hill (at a former QFC now known as the “Quality Flea Center”). Looks like there is scaffolding on the old mural, so maybe it gets touched up periodically even though the event is no longer there. At https://southseattleemerald.org/community/2021/09/22/photo-essay-punk-rock-flea-market-returns-after-pandemic-hiatus there are photos of the Punk Rock Flea Market being held there in 2021 (masks required) with the mural in the background. According to Google Street View the mural must have gone up some time after August 2019 (when the wall was blank). Muralist is pazuzu810; she’s also collaborated with Henry on some other murals so I assume he came by contributed the big sasquatch. Near the middle you can see some of the hot dog graffiti characters; according to https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1itl15r/anyone_know_who_does_the_hot_dog_graffiti/ those are done by Blink (Bill Hinker) so I assume he contributed those as well. I don’t know if the unicorn heads on top of the fence pillars, or the metal pink semi-circle on top of the gate, were originally added in keeping with the whimsy of the Punk Rock Flea Market, and now they’re just there. The lot is locked off and closed to the public now but I took some zoom pics of the cool bits with the screw-on phone zoom lens. submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
