And put up an overpass...
(looking to the southwest, the Sauce graffito is back and to the left)My Theme Day posting alluded to these murals and I wish the photographs were better but I only had a short amount of time to shoot and didn't check my ISO setting, it should have been higher. C'est la vie.
The primary importance of these columns is that they're part of the destruction of the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans. Volumes could be and have been written about the unique status of the Tremé neighborhood and how it eventually helped to create and shape jazz culture. Today, it's once vibrant business district is in ruins.
In the 1950's and 1960's large sections were razed and in the 1970's I-10 was routed through it echoing the senseless urbanization of African American communities begun by Robert Moses in New York City in the 1930's. One of the most important figures in modern American history, his influence has reached far and wide and has been felt in virtually every significant urban culture on earth.
I think it's interesting to note that what graffiti is present - you can see it in the lower left hand corner of the banner - doesn't intrude into the mural, it stops just short of it. This community, in an incredibly run-down condition from what we saw during our drive, needs this beauty. Bloom where you're planted?View Larger Map
You can click on the upper right hand corner, the radio button is mostly hidden, to get rid of the directions bubble. I think we were further to the northeast along I-10 than the red flag indicates.
