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Barrio Logan Murals
We spent a few hours down at Chicano Park today looking at the murals. They can be found under the San Diego side approach of the Coronado Bridge.
They are currently doing some restoration work on a few of them.
Tribute to Diego Rivera and his bride!
[Edited on 10-1-2011 by tripledigitken]
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When all that first started, the state would come along from time to time and paint out the works, but it reappeared as fast as they could get rid of
it.
Finally, in desperation, the state gave up and called the place a park and turned it over to the taggers.
The "art" wasn't always so well done. It started with gang crap.
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Great Pictures
I am always confused about what ius hyped in the media about the distinctions between graffiti and murals?
Without the gang affiliations, it seems that graffiti is as much art as municipality-approved murals.
Not that I have any art critic credentials.
[Edited on 9-30-2011 by Gypsy Jan]
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
Without the gang affiliations, it seems that graffiti is as much art as municipality-approved murals.
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That approval is probably the only difference if we just attach the term "Art" to everything....which it isn't.
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Beautiful art/murals at "Chicano Park" that reflects "Chicano culture" pride and Mesoamerican dualistic nature of the locals.
You have to be good to paint art like that in the park, but art is really in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes it's an acquired taste.
It's amazing what art critics could see in a piece of art, but that doesn't stop the average person from enjoying looking at a beautiful piece of art.
Now me I was wondering why Jennifer Aniston would plunk down $450,000 dollars and buy this piece of abstract art from Glenn Ligon titled “Stranger
#44?
I have a hard time seeing the art here, and think of this art piece as some sort of "Rorschach" like inkblot art, But hey it's Aniston's money and
perhaps to her. This is an important piece of beautiful art.
Glenn Ligon abstract titled “Stranger #44?
[Edited on 10-1-2011 by JoeJustJoe]
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what's Jennifer's handle here on BN?
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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
Pablo Picasso
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hijack: Ken -did you go to the amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazingly delicious Mexican restaurant right under the bridge in baario logan ???? the line at
lunchtime reaches around the block.
dont remember the name of the place...tia something ???...but they make fresh tortillas that you can buy to take home.
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ON TOPIC: I am pretty sure Diego Rivera painted a mural in barrio logan ...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
hijack: Ken -did you go to the amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazingly delicious Mexican restaurant right under the bridge in baario logan ???? the line at
lunchtime reaches around the block.
dont remember the name of the place...tia something ???...but they make fresh tortillas that you can buy to take home. |
Would that be Las Cuatros Milpas?
Not today, had Japanese.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
-did you go to the amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazingly delicious Mexican restaurant right under the bridge in baario logan ???? the line at lunchtime reaches
around the block.
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There's a popular place called Chuy's right down in there. Maybe that's it.
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Beautiful photos, Ken. Very nice. and I really enjoy the murals
---and three restaurants named also---well, still waiting for Blanca to remember the name of one.
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Thanks, Diane.
Here's my favorite Mexican Restaurant in the area, less than 2 miles from Murals.
Tacos El Paisa
3096 National Ave
(between 30th St & 31st St)
San Diego, CA 92113
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Dennis, Chuy's Restaurant in Barrio Logan Went Bankrupt
About four years ago. They were building a house near us and put it on the market half-finished, meaning the walls, roof, doors and windows were
installed but nothing inside.
But hey, the Baja RE market must be improving, because a family just "bought", meaning monthly payments-to-own, and the unfinished house is getting
worked on regularly.
In Barrio Logan:
Restaurant with lines out the door for tortillas = Los Cuatro Milpas.
Restaurant famous for carnitas = El Porvenir (oldest continually operating restaurant in SD, or so it is claimed).
Another beloved restaurant known for tacos= La Fachada
In Logan Heights:
Tacos el Paiso
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
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\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gypsy Jan
Restaurant famous for carnitas = El Porvenir (oldest continually operating restaurant in SD, or so it is claimed).
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Sadly, it appears that they may have shutdown. I have been trying to find them open on 3 or 4 visits over the last 3 months. When driving by
yesterday, the building has been painted over with no sign. They had some very good carnitas, which we would have scarfed down yesterday.
Ken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
ON TOPIC: I am pretty sure Diego Rivera painted a mural in barrio logan ... |
Perhaps it was SAN Diego Rivera :-). The real Diego Rivera had been dead for about 20 years when the murals went up
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This falls into the FWIW category, but here's the skinny on the murals in Chicano Park
Chuey's is long gone, property was sold to the San Diego Community College District and they're building the new Cesar Chavez continuing education
building there.
La Fachada and La Paisa are both solid choices for tacos.
Blueprint Cafe does a bang up breakfast/lunch business.
If you need a caffeine fix check out Ryan Brothers Coffee, a stones throw from the old Chuy's location. Excellent coffee, well sourced, well roasted
and well brewed.
A couple door down from Las Cuatro Milpas (which in my opinion is overrated) is Panchitas. Very good panaderia. The Panchita mothership is located not
too far away at 28th & C (or maybe it's B) but in any event, they have some great stuff to satisfy a sweet tooth.
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tripledigitken, Thanks,
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Kalypso
Chuey's is long gone, |
Jeeeezo...the whole world is passing me by. I haven't been down there for a while.....obviously. Maybe I'll dust of my Kevlar coat and take a drive.
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1957 is when diego rivera fied so I indeed stand corrected...imagine...all my life I thought one of those murals was his LOL
kalypso  - unless the standard has gone way down in the last 5 years -
I loved eating at LAS 4 MILPAS - which as far as I know is the only restaurant in the area which made fresh tortillas to go AND had a full blown
simple yet delicious menu to boot. This is not a 5 star restaurant but just a simple eatery ... since I ran my own bakeries and since I shopped at
the RESTAURANT DEPOT only a couple blocks away from there, I used to sneak over there and eat whenever I could...
do I miss those days...NOPE ... but I did enjoy the comida mexicana.
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