by Geoff Cobb
For years brilliant avant-guarde murals lay hidden inside a local housing project, but thanks to an intrepid art history detective they were rediscovered and everyone today can enjoy their genius. It is a local story worth recounting. In 1936, America was suffering the effects of the Great Depression. No one was harder hit by the depression than artists who watched the market for their work shrivel and completely dry…
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Interesting, many people don’t know this, not only here but art was an integral part of many of the New Deal projects
Also many people don’t know that residences today that are home to present day poorer people did not always begin with the present day ethnic population in it.
An example of this is the housing complex near app. the intersection of Russell and Norman Ave/St. Starting in 1960 ish, I knew it as the Incas or the incubators ie a slang name given for the numerous children there of Spanish immigrants. What people don’t know before it already had the name when the complex was primarily Irish.