tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post114452288965941510..comments2022-03-30T01:10:12.218-04:00Comments on Visual Matters: Belmont wallUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-48725333313499843242007-06-30T16:12:00.000-04:002007-06-30T16:12:00.000-04:00seen that made me realy missed homeseen that made me realy missed homeWendell Mc Shinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09946766760956875063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23367614.post-37998787256078221862007-06-04T21:22:00.000-04:002007-06-04T21:22:00.000-04:00I live on this street. As a child, the painted fla...I live on this street. As a child, the painted flag was always there. But it was not as it is now in its current form. The previous painting was larger and featured --and still features in my imagination-- a large flag unfurling in the wind. <BR/><BR/>The history of this painted flag, which was preserved in its current form when the owners of the house on the corner finally decided to re-paint thier wall some years ago, is murky. <BR/><BR/>I hear that it was originally done to commerate the fact that a local politician lived there. Other reasons revolved around the fact that Carr Street --for that is the name of this street-- was an important place for people who eventually became cultual icons. For example, Jason Griffith was once based at Carr Place. <BR/><BR/>Over the years the flag, regardless of its history, acquired a meaning and irony of its own. A joyful meaning and irony that no doubt you too see, like those who have proudly preserved it as a Belmont landmark for all this time.Andre Bagoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08119570652273876120noreply@blogger.com