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Now all Hyde Park needs is a rock star to come from there
By adamg on Sun, 07/19/2015 - 4:55pm
The "Greetings from Hyde Park" mural is almost finished on the side of the newly renovated Vertullo Building.
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thanks to historic boston...
will be interesting to see if taggers leave this alone.
and a rock star? shoot, we'd be happy with a morning bfast place.
Mayor Menino was a rock star in my book
They should be proud enough that the late great mayor came from there.
Going to need more than a rock star
That one in New York has a President.
Grown up tagger
I chatted with the muralist, Gregg Bernstein. If you search for him, you'll find interviews with how he went from a tagger to a mural guy. He cops like the grown-up version and use him to decorate walls that used to be covered with graffiti. Seems taggers respect murals.
He had much praise for Tom Menino for seeing work like his got city funding. Bernstein even was on salary for murals.
Special coating
They will probably use a special coating that makes it difficult to tag.
If they won't then I will
diggety. :)
Cue the lawsuits
from Asbury Park, Bruce Springsteen, and Sony Music, in ....
Seriously, copying somebody else's postcard and album cover design is a pretty lame way to call attention to a neighborhood. But let's continue throwing money at "public art" despite the far more pressing issues this City has to deal with.
I really hope
I really hope this is satire. You know that the Springsteen cover art wasn't original at all, and was based on a postcard he found in Asbury Park, yes?
I mean, if your argument is that Springsteen is lame, and that is what makes it lame to use this derivative art, then you're on to something...
and this style of postcard was popular at the time
I have several postcards like this from different cities and states that I've picked up at antique stores and flea markets.
Postcard
Roadman mentioned that it was a postcard in his post. Regardless, it's still very unoriginal. An iconic New Jersey postcard and album cover modified for Boston.
Oy! It is NOT a New Jersey postcard.
This was a very common design used in countless postcards from countless cities and towns.
For a nice sampling of boston postcards of the era--
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/boston_public_library/sets/72157624739795516/
The operative phrases
being "from the era" and "at the time". Ten points for effort, but minus several million for originality.
The designer of the postcard
The designer of the letter-pic "Greetings from" postcard was Curt Teich in the 1930s.
I see certain type of originality in using Curt's motiff in the way that it has never been used for such a mundane town imho. Finding sufficiently interesting Hyde Park things to populate the letters was a feat in itself.
I would have gone with the trestle, the late Billy Jacks, Unkies (HP auto replacement), the entrance to Georgetown, those tall Lost-esque poles from the abandoned golf range, and a Dunkies.
Allston "Village"
Is not flattered
This is a cool campaign
Logan also has similar designs for a few neighborhoods that tourists don't tend to visit, including Hyde Park and Roslindale, next to the moving walkways in some terminals. This exact design may actually be there, I can't remember for sure though.
Something's missing
Have they repealed the Menino-era law that required all such public displays to carry the Mayor's name?