Posts Tagged ‘william mckinley’
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Appears as if ORFN has gotten a few licks in on our iconic William McKinley statue in the east end of Golden Gate Park.
See?
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Here’s some history ‘n stuff:
“Well it’s been a back-and-forth between San Francisco’s Arts Commission / Recreation and Park Department and our local graffiti artists/taggers down in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
This east-end statue has had all kinds of anti-graffiti coatings applied, but to no avail. Here’s the history, complete with before and after photos.
The newest additions appear to say, “KKKattie” or somethingund “All this means nothing.”
Now, would you pay something like $10K four figures for these scribblings? Well, guess what, tax and fee payer, you just did.
As it looks today. This fetching couple tried to make the best of things:
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On It Goes…”
On It Goes…
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Well it’s been a back-and-forth between San Francisco’s Arts Commission / Recreation and Park Department and our local graffiti artists/taggers down in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
This east-end statue has had all kinds of anti-graffiti coatings applied, but to no avail. Here’s the history, complete with before and after photos.
The newest additions appear to say, “KKKattey” or something und “All this means nothing.” Would you pay something like $10K four figures for these scribblings? Well, guess what, tax and fee payer, you just did.
As it looks today. This fetching couple tried to make the best of things:
Click to expand
On It Goes…
Tags: 2010, all this means nothing, assassination, baker, clean, dmv, fell, golden gate park, graffiti, katey, Katie, katie1, kkk, kkkatey, kkkatie, KKKatie1, love, mckinley, oak, paint, panhandle, president, removal, spray, statue, street, tagging, up, william mckinley
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Before…
…and after:
Not the best clean-up job in the world, but it will have to suffice until the little monsters act up again.
Anyway, it’s certainly good enough to pass muster with the Broken Windows Theory crowd.
Hurray.
Tags: assassination, baker, clean, dmv, fell, golden gate park, graffiti, love, oak, paint, panhandle, president, removal, spray, statue, street, tagging, up, william mckinley
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Poor President McKinley! First he goes to New York and gets shot twice, then they take his mountain away from him, and now this: the repeated tagging of his statue in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Is this graffiti problem getting worse lately?
It wasn’t always so. This statue got cleaned up last year, but then it got tagged again. And now it’s woirse. Oh vey.
[Update] It’s possible the Van Buren Boys street gang could be involved. It’s anticipated they’ll soon release a communique at Indybay.org demanding the destruction of this statue and the erection of an even bigger one in honor of their hero, “Mutton-chop Martin”, our Eighth President. When, oh when, will this Battle of Dead Presidents end?
No love for poor Bill. Click to expand.
Tags: baker, dmv, fell, golden gate park, graffiti, love, oak, paint, panhandle, presiden, spray, statue, street, tagging, william mckinley
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