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898 Westminster Avenue
This wonderful sign was completed by Charlie Johnston in 2006. In 2018 the
establishment closed. In 2019, the Mural was removed for a new
occupant.
Original notes follow:===
Bill Fugler (owner): "When I first met with Charlie, Will Eisner had just passed
away. He did these comic strips that appeared every week, and the name 'The
Spirit' would appear either made out of laundry hanging on a line or bits of
paper washing down the gutter or something like that. That's what both
Charlie and I were feeling for this design! Charlie actually drove around the
neighbourhood checking out which buildings to use. All of the buildings here
are in the neighbourhood, though of course they may not be exact replicas. A
lot of the people in the neighbourhood can recoginize a lot of the buildings
here. The 'I' is the tree- the Wolseley elm which used to stand right in the
middle of Wolseley Avenue dividing east and west."
Other people had approached Bill and offered to do it, but he wasn't that
enthusiastic about a mere graphic design: "It HAD to be about paint and you'd
have to be able to see the brushmarks and the paint splashed on. Charlie did
an amazing job, and knowing his work I don't think I could have settled for
anything else."
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