My neighborhood's famous mural got painted over on a Tuesday and I think the new gray wall is actually better

Sean Cooper · 2026-10-04T14:10:02.924783+00:00

Everyone in Fairview has been mourning the whale mural on the side of the old laundromat on 3rd Street since it got covered up in a flat gray coat about 3 weeks ago. I walked past it every day for 6 years and honestly the gray makes the whole block feel calmer and less like a tourist photo op. The mural was peeling bad near the bottom and had a tag on the whale's tail nobody ever fixed, so I'm not sure what we're all pretending we lost. Does anyone else here actually prefer a plain wall over public art, or am I the only one who thinks this?

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