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1333 Manitoba Avenue
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Location: NE corner Manitoba & Shaughnessy; West Face
Occupant: City Food & Discount
District: McPhillips-Keewatin
Neighbourhood: Shaughnessy Park
Artist(s): Paul Ullrich, Lorraine Paluk-Hetzler
Year: 1999
Sponsors: Take Pride Winnipeg!, Northern Paint Supply
Painters: Designs: Myles Posthumos, Lyna Meuangkhoua, Laurence Sanderson, Kyle Rear, Rainier Carlos
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Paul Ullrich: "One of the reasons I liked doing this one was that it was right in my
neighbourhood. This is the Chinese grocery store; every year they would paint it, and
every year it would get tagged. The Mural was part of the anti-tagging campaign. Take
Pride Winnipeg would always get me to do a little extra work on the Mural, because any
blank space that was left would leave room for tagging."
"Students submitted their basic designs, and my job was to choose the best of them and
arrange them into a collage. We juried it, and picked the best ones. I then worked out a
rudimentary design and started placing and arranging the various elements from these
best entries into the design. It was a very childlike Mural; it wasn't my own artwork."
"I had to use a ladder on that one a little bit, but it went smoothly. Oddly enough, the
Mural still exists but the school (Florence Nightingale) was torn down. I enjoyed that
school; it looked very much the same as the school I went to when I was a kid; the old
brick schools with teachers who taught there for decades, small student body- about 120
students. It was a nice work experience. You will notice the pay phone there on in the
middle of the wall- it was the only pay phone around. Right across the street there was
public housing. I was painting all around these people who would make phone calls from
this pay phone and was privy to all kinds of rather interesting conversations that I had
little choice in hearing!"
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