Saturday, January 3, 2009

On Washington St.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The McQuat building?

The Urbanophile said...

I think so.

Anonymous said...

This must be fairly new, I just noticed this about a month ago. It was a bitter cold day and I was headed to the last Colts game against the Titans. I stopped off at the Dunkin' Donuts on the corner for coffee and to warm up a little. There were a couple homeless guys in there, one guy was telling me you get free refills on coffee. Now that's a good thing to know, it's OK coffee too. His buddy was nodding off to sleep at the table, he must have been up all night. The manager kept coming over to warn him if he feel asleep he'd be thrown out. They seem to be fairly more tolerant of the homeless here than a lot of other places downtown, we need more places like these, it's rough out there for some of us. I left the shop and headed down Washington, that's when I first noticed this mural.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, people love hanging out with the homeless. It really increases business to cram as many of them into your store as possible.

Anonymous said...

This mural has been around for 3 or 4 years, I'd guess. It's by a local artist named Kyle Ragsdale. All of his stuff looks pretty much the same, actually.... Elongated stick people posing. Although I'm not a fan, I will admit that it looks nicer than an abandoned storefront!