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."
Still out of town and using autopost.
Bay Front Park
1 month ago
«Louis» didn't know the rest of the story...
ReplyDeleteGreat mural, didn't know about the flag. What fun.
ReplyDeletecool mural!!
ReplyDeleteQuite a mural... any idea who painted it ?
ReplyDeleteThat's great. I've never seen the flag, but will look for it!
ReplyDeleteI love it when a put-down town pushes back!
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Very very nice work!
ReplyDeleteThat'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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