Cycling Route in Houston, Texas, United States of America
East End Ride

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Cycling Route in Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Mural Buildings - 1213 Maury St Fineapple - created for 2016 HUE Mural Fest and others...
East End - Birth Place of Houston Painted in 2006 by local artists JesseSifuentes , Adrian de la Cerda, and the students of Austin High School. Locatedon the Rex Supply building at 3715 Harrisburg, this is the site of Houston’s first Sears Robuck store. (will see him again w/ Paper Airplane
Paper Airplane Artist: Jesse Sifuentes, same artist who did Birthplace of Houston Sifuentes, a Galveston native who teaches ceramics at Texas Southern University, has lived in the East End since the early 1970s. "I've always eyed that wall and have loved it for years," he said. "It was screaming for something." He built the planes by sections in his studio on 16 pieces of 3-by-5-foot Hardie board (about 240 square feet total), then attached them to the building with mortar screws. They were grouted in place before getting a final coat of water sealant Look for how he honors other parts of houston: a line of small red, white and blue space shuttles nods to NASA, while a few protruding coffee cups reflect the neighborhood's Maxwell House factory. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/theater/article/New-mosaics-enlivening-East-End-5677465.php
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