Monday, October 10, 2011

Monday Mural: Gertrude and Alice

This is a detail from a huge mural downtown on Franklin Street.  Gertrude Stein has famously been quoted as saying about Oakland that "There is no there there."  The quote actually pertains to a visit to her childhood home, which had been torn down.  Still feeling the sting of this presumed put down, the city sometimes flies a flag at the top of the Tribune Building that says "There."

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8 comments:

  1. Louis la VacheOctober 9, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    «Louis» didn't know the rest of the story...

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  2. ArtandArchitecture-SF.comOctober 10, 2011 at 8:08 AM

    Great mural, didn't know about the flag. What fun.

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  3. Marco C.October 10, 2011 at 9:12 AM

    cool mural!!

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  4. OwenOctober 10, 2011 at 7:07 PM

    Quite a mural... any idea who painted it ?

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  5. DyannaOctober 10, 2011 at 8:36 PM

    That's great. I've never seen the flag, but will look for it!

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  6. Roger GreenOctober 11, 2011 at 11:39 PM

    I love it when a put-down town pushes back!

    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  7. KarlOctober 12, 2011 at 11:59 PM

    Very very nice work!

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  8. FranciscaOctober 26, 2011 at 12:39 AM

    That's funny... I knew the Stein quote, but not the story behind it. Besides Gertrude's "autobiography" of Alice, a nice read is a novel featuring them, Truon's The Book of Salt.

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