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For last week's 'words' theme for the Smile on Saturday group, I started looking back through my murals folder and found some cool street art that I'd never posted. While I didn't end up using the murals for SoS, some are really great. Here's one today from our time in Connecticut.

 

When we moved to the area, New London was having a hard time. Many of its main street buildings were vacant and boarded up. There were only a couple of murals back then, but over time more were done. One of the largest and most impressive was the above Hollywood mural on Bank Street. I'm not sure when it was painted, and couldn't find a signature at the time, so I'm sorry I can't identify the artist. I haven't been back to New London for several years, but I see from online searching that NL now has a mapped mural walk. "Hollywood" isn't listed on the map, and from what I can tell searching images, the mural's been painted over - the building may now be a restaurant? My previous three posts show closer views of the panels if you're interested.

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