I love the walkway between the new Walgreens and the tailor shop on the Avenew. It's convenient and the brick wall of the tailor shop is quaint--until the graffiti shows up. It's been painted over a few times, but it is
I visited Palo Alto by train today (University Ave.) and was struck by how much wall space there is at the station and the pedestrian tunnel that goes under the tracks. The walls are not in great shape, but they do not have any graffiti on them either. It's not because they repaint regularly either since the paint is pretty beat. Yet in B'game we paint often and still have tags like this one on the train station.
What's up with that?
Palo Alto has Stanford students who are older -- they don't do graffiti because it's childish.
Burlingame has immature high school students with too much time on their hands.
Posted by: Vince | October 16, 2010 at 04:54 PM
It isn't BHS, Paly, Gunn or Stanford students who are tagging these two towns--it's the drop-outs and skateboarders. Vote to legalize the weed--then we can hire a full time painter to keep the town clean.
Posted by: Mario | October 16, 2010 at 09:34 PM
Skateboarders who hang out behind the stores I can point the exact kids out ...we have em on video camera....Enforce a year of labor cleaning up the graphitti around our city
But no...not in CA....don't want to offend anyone
Posted by: Elise Patterson | October 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM
I was driving past the Easto Libray a couple of weeks ago.. "rolled" through the stop sign; I could have sworn I saw "Hillsider" on the front door.
Posted by: holyroller | October 26, 2010 at 07:47 PM