New murals on 30th and Redwood

TC was practicing her driving skills this day...

driving through the southern end of North Park so we could have coffee at Santos...


We noticed that the building on the northeast corner of 30th and Redwood was painted gray. Save for the lone remnant of the mural that once graced the south facing wall of this former laundrymat, that of street artist Persue's iconic Bunny Kitty.

Here is what that wall used to look like:

(photo from my "Murals at the Redwood Laundrymat" post, October 2013)

I asked her to park in their lot so I could take more photos of the new street art on the parking lot walls.

The flowers were new.

Here is the old view (and by the way, any older comparison shots came from the same blog post, linked at the end):

The north facing wall is dark gray as well, with fencing. Not sure what this place is going to be.

This is what is used to look like (from the other angle). The far left mural was that of the late English soul singer, Amy Winehouse. We had our 2013 Christmas photo shoot on the right edge of her mural.

Back to that corner which was also fenced off.

This corner used to have Prince ("Purple Rain" era), artist was Hasler Shark.

Sadly, like the other artwork here, Prince was painted over .


I peeked through the slats...could this be a playground of sorts for a daycare center?

I raised my hand over the fence and took some blind shots, which are these photos:


I'm so bummed the Prince mural is gone. :(

More of the happy flowers:

When I originally posted on the previous street art, I wasn't able to upload a Prince video.  He was still alive and forbade the use of his videos on the interwebs.  Let's see if that's changed.

Aaaand, there are videos galore now. I'll just pick one.

Here's "Computer Blue" one of my favorite songs from Prince and the Revolutions 1984 hit album, "Purple Rain"


See my previous post when this used to be a Laundrymat and had different street art on the walls:
"Murals at the Redwood Laundrymat", November 2013

Street art is so ephemeral which is why I like to take photos of walls, utility boxes, you name it. It doesn't matter what neighborhood either.  It's intriguing that the art could be there one day and gone the next...