Sunland's Richard Nohles paints street retaining wall
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Hyde, Alan
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated December 18, 1961 partially reads, "A few months ago, there was peace, tranquility. [sic] And oaks [sic] trees in front of his house, 10265 Sunland Blvd. then the highway engineers came in September to widen the street. They pushed the street right to Nohles' property lines, and built a wall to hold it 13 feet above the level of his lot. 'When I saw that gray wall for the first time, I got sick,' said Nohles, an amateur painter...Gathering up his 'odds 'n' ends paint,' he began to do something about it. Remembering his several vacation trips to Yosemite Park, he drew a waterfall, some snowcapped mountains, a lake and a forest of pine trees. In a month, he had covered the 85-foot by 13-foot wall facing his house."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Artists--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Painting--California--Los Angeles Murals--California--Sunland (Los Angeles) Landscape paintings Paintings Retaining walls--California--Los Angeles Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--Art Sunland Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Sunland (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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