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On Forest Lane, an ‘ugly’ skirmish over a wall covered in a groovy mural (Dallas)
As famous walls go, it doesn’t rank high on any list — somewhere below the Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the Western Wall and Croatia’s Wall of Ston, let’s say. But in Northwest Dallas, we’ll take what we can get. And since 1976, the guh-roovy Forest Lane brick-wall mural between Rosser and Midway Roads has been all ours — the graffiti deterrent that became a neighborhood’s own slice of public art thanks to some concerned W.T. White art students armed with sketches, paintbrushes and a whole bunch of far-out-man.
Jill Farrer’s brother Kevin was one of those W.T. White Longhorns, which is why she can be found most evenings kneeling in front of the wall, retouching faded memories with a small paintbrush as car whiz by. Every day she goes to work; every night, she paints till it’s too dark to see.
“I feel very connected to it,” she said Wednesday evening. Farrer lives nearby, in Farmers Branch, but her mother still lives even closer, in a house off Marsh Lane. She remembers when the wall was off-white, decorated with off-color graffiti left by the Forest Lane cruisers in the mid-1970s. “I want the wall to be restored. Now that I’ve started working on it and met so many cool people, I don’t want to stop. It’s really neat.”
But there are others, much to her chagrin, who disagree and want the mural vanished.
More at http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2014/06/on-forest-lane-an-ugly-skirmish-over-a-wall-covered-in-a-groovy-mural-that-dates-back-decades.html/ .
[font color=green]I never was able to look at the mural in detail, but I thought it and the art work in Deep Ellum were some of the cooler things about Dallas and Dallas needs cool things to make up for the crass commercialism.[/font]
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I think that the first time I was on Forest Lane was either 1989 or 1990. If the statute of limitations hasn't expired for you, then I'm not going to reveal anything either! 
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