come late & things change

A garden center outside Massillon has the cute name, the Lady Bug.  Here is a Volkswagon with a Missouri plate for 2005.   Some years before, it had to be really sharp.was painted in the beetle colors, but some of the red has flaked off, and blue is showing.

I knew of this house in Massillon. I saw fotos of it in pink. I did not know its address, twice i was within a block or two of it. If i did see then, it would have been moreover pink.

Massillon loves high school football. It has two high schools, but the one is famous. Washington Tigers. This was painted, or update for their 2023 championship. It is in a tire shop, which i drove by. Later, i found out of the existence of the mural. Saturday, i went to see it. The shop is closed on the weekends. This was snapped through the glass of the door. The glass was coated, and the background painting is white.

The old Lincoln Highway cuts through Massillon. It intersects with Route 21. A very short street next to off/on ramp is named on one side after Lillian Gish, and on the other Tommy Henrich. On both sides there is a pump house, one had Gish, and the other had Obie the Tiger. Both had murals. There was one with Lillian Gish, which included her role in the Scarlet Letter 1926.  Scot Phillips is the current town's muralist, he also paints in rival Canton. That (or those) buildings, was/is failing, and the city removed the murals. Again, i had driven on Lincoln without knowing.

Tommy Henrich is still up on the other side of the street. He played for the Yankees from 1937 to 1950, with World War II in between.

When i came by, the artist, Scot Phillips was scraping flakes off of Tommy.  He said it was holding up well, considering it catches the western sunlight. The building is moving, because the river moved. I spoke with him, and he really wants to paint Lillian Gish again in the city. He thinks that the city can be nudged with e-mails.

 

Heather Bullach. Red Grange turns Pro, 1925. Canton. 2019. 

Some art holds up better than others out in the weather. Over a span of a few years Canton placed eleven football artworks around the city. Heather Bullach was the artist for Red Grange, the first big "star" of the NFL. The Galloping Ghost came from the University of Illinois to play for the Chicago Bears in 1925. He was considered the best college footballer in history. August 2, 2019 was the public presentation. My foto from Saturday. See the next foto for how much red faded.

from https://artsinstark.com/public-art/the-eleven/    August 2019?

cropped from flickr account of scottamus (Ken) foto 30 April 2022

Tommy Morgan. Moment Ten. 2021. Canton.

My foto Saturday of the 54 metal panels of Pete Rozelle and the merger in 1966 of the AFL & NFL.

a peek into St. John Baptist Basilica Canton

The church was closed. I've been there three times, all closed. There is a gap between two of the doors.  It is an 1871 building, and here the doors do not close tightly. The parish began in 1823, and is the oldest in northeast Ohio.