below: Springfield written large across a wall. I don’t know the city well enough to be able to identify the people and scenes in this large mural. Perhaps you know some of them?
Photos taken July 2024
This post is about a Mission District mural that was originally painted in 1975 and recently updated and renovated (2023). It is located at the 24th Street BART station. In it, many strong and determined (but not very happy) men hold up the tracks that keep the BART trains running. A silver train travels the line. Faceless red figures wait underneath the tracks – the ‘hoards and masses’ who depend on public transit. In the background, the multicolored towers of downtown can be seen.
In the original, these faceless people were brown.
The three original artists were Michael Rios, Richard Montes, and Tony Machado.
In the background, the multicolored towers of downtown San Francisco.
Photos taken February 2025
A gang of sharks against a tiger….
below: One of the sharks wears yellow rimmed glasses and has a lip piercing. It also has a lot of pointy teeth!
below: Most the the Sharks vs Tiger mural at street level along the bottom of a building at 15th and Valencia. It was painted by Dave Persue Ross (creator of Bunny Kitty)
below: A hammerhead shark joins the fray.
below: This is the tiger. He is holding a Bunny Kitty who in turn has a spray paint can in it’s hand. Tiger is wearing a cap with a San Francisco Giants logo. … but oh! … I am not sure he knows there’s an octopus lurking behind him – an octopus with at least one sharp knife!
below: Whose side is the turtle on?
below: Not a hopeful sign…..
Photos taken February 2025
Continuing to “finish” sections of this blog – today it’s Salem Massachusetts.
below: “Make art or die trying”.
below: “Super Dali” by Brazilian street artist Sipros (aka Wellington Naberezny)
below: Beside Dali is a spiral vortex in blues and oranges by HoxxoH, (aka Douglas Hoekzema)
below: Golden 305 aka Cristhian Saravia
below: mmm
below: Unicorn love
below: “The Queen of the Block” by artist Mr. Cenz,
below: “Si Se Puede” (translates to “if possible”) by Annadidathing aka Anna Dugan, and Yenny Hernández
below: Along the river path, by Chor Boogie aka Joaquin Lamar Hailey
below: It looks a llot like fences intertwined, but the title is “Creciendo Juntos” (Growing Together) by artist El Cekis
below: “Katherine” painted by Mexican artist Paola Delfín in August 2018.
below: “Garden Boy” by Pixel Pancho
below: Little orange guys
below: Denny Tentindo. This mural was painted over in August 2026. It was on the side of a building, The Witch Doctor. When the business moved, the mural was painted brown.
below: Happy faces in a rainbow of colours, more work by Golden305.
below: A chef and some faces in black and white
below: Happy frog face!
More Salem photos on this site – Salem street art
Photos taken July 2024
below: This is West Pearl Street, Nashua NH in 1909. Tremont House located at the corner of West Pearl & Main streets dominates the picture. West Pearl was the economic hub of the city at that time with many coffee shops, pool rooms, stores, and other business establishments. In 1923 the Tremont Houses was demolished and a bank built in its place.
below: This painting is on the back of a building in a downtown parking lot.
below: In the same parking lot as the above painting, is this mural. “Martha’s Muse was painted by Manuel Ramirez in 2019. It is on the back of Martha’s Exchange Restaurant, Brewey, and Sweet Shoppe on Main Street. Ramirez is part of a group, Positive Street Art that is responsible for many of the murals in Nashua.
below: Another mural from Positive Street Art is this “We are Grateful For” with the sun in the center. The rays of the sun are filled with words including family, outdoors, and second chances. In addition, there are four trees, each representing a season. There are green leaves on the summer tree but red and brown leaves on the autumn one, as seen here.
below: The spring tree is full of white blossoms with words like, “blessings”, “kindness”, “honesty”, and “generosity” on the suns rays that shine on the tree.
below: At the winter end of the mural snow covers the branches of the otherwise bare tree. But the sun keeps shining.
below: She is blowing lots of bubbles here, in the third Positive Street Art mural of this post.
below: The full mural. It was painted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Nashua West.
below: There is a lot of text – it’s a list of questions called “The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do”. This list was created in 1932 by Herbert J. Taylor as he tried to save the Club Aluminum Company from bankruptcy. Taylor was a Rotarian; in 1943 the Rotary Club adopted these tests as part of their philosophy.
below: “Take courage when the road is long don’t ever forget, you are never alone.” Although the grammar isn’t stellar, the message is a good one. This is the fourth (and last for this post) Positive Street Art mural. It is a tribute dedicated to community members lost to the opioid epidemic. Painted by Manuel Ramirez, Jason Marc DeBow, and Tom Lopez.
If you are interested in the murals in Nashua, there are a couple of other posts on this site as well – Nashua murals.
Photos taken July 2024
This is another post showcasing some of the murals in Lynn Massachusetts, most of which are the result of Beyond Walls, an organization that promotes public art including street art murals. There are now more than seventy murals in Lynn many of which have already appeared in this blog (other Lynn murals)
below: Cedric “Vise” Douglas and Julez Roth collaborated to paint this “Black Madonna”
below: This portrait of a young person is the work of Andrew Hem
below: Medio Peso painted a large mural on the upper level of a building, over Omar and Oscar Jewelry store.
below: This artist, Bryan Beyung, is of Chinese-Cambodian origin but is now based in Montreal. Part of it is obscured by the neighbouring building but the mural shows people carrying or pulling suitcases.
below: This is a portion of a colourful mural by Anna Dugan aka Annadidathing that covers one side of the Washington Street underpass. It’s title is “Mga Tagapagtanggol / The Guardians” and it represents Dugan’s Filipino heritage.
below: Edwin Sepulveda, aka Don Rimx,is the artist responsible for this mural titled “Cacique Guerrero”. Cacique translates to something like ‘war captain’ and the title refers to Gonzalo Guerrero, a 16th-century Spanish sailor who survived a 1511 shipwreck off the Yucatán Peninsula. He assimilated into the Maya civilization and rose to become a military leader who fought against the Spanish conquistadors
below: RIP Peter by Hiero Veiga
below: Another portrait by Hiero Veiga (this one needs a good cleaning!).
below: The signature on this mural is NS/CB which is the mark of Nicole Salgar and Chuck Berrett. It is painted on the upper levels of a building which makes it more difficult to see from street level but more easily seen from the train.
below: Hidden behind another building and a fence, is this man with big ears standing in a small paper boat. Sipros, aka Wellington Naberezny is the artist who painted it.
below: “Equilibrium” – A red devil and a blue angel balance each other. A mural by Golden 305, aka Cristhian Saravia, who is originally from Venezuela. Many of his paintings can be seen in Lynn and other cities in Massachusetts.
below: This is what happens when you paint a large sized mural on a building beside a vacant lot… and then a condo goes in next door. She’s a very large woman lying in her bed, but it’s very difficult to get e look at her! Painted by Fonki.
below: Offering a daffodil to a drowning person? “Good Intentions” by BK Foxx.
below: Mike P’s Studio has a man hanging around outside, the work of Ivan Salazar
Photos taken July 2024
A wall of hoardings in Honolulu’s Kaka’ako district that was painted with street art murals during POW! WOW! Honolulu in 2020….. It features a mural by East Three (or East3) at one end, and a painting of a long haired Medusa-like character by Jay Howell at the other.
In between there are contributions by a couple of other artists including farpys_arts
below: Ghetto blasters, robots and fish
below: Stop! In the name of love…. or something like that…..
below: She’s got a goofy grin as well as very long hair that seems to be home for quite a few snakes. Any ideas what she has in her hands?
Photos taken July 2025
One of the large murals brought to Lynn Massachusetts by Beyond Walls is one on Munroe Street by Caleb Neelon (with help from Lena McCarthy). It is on the side wall of a building adjacent to a parking lot so it is easy to see but difficult to get a good picture of the whole mural without a wide angle lens. It was painted in 2017.
The mural is full of details! Polka dots, stars, and other little shapes. Also miniature drawings of animals, people, buildings, and much more.
It is a patchwork of shapes in many colours, all stitched carefully together with black thread. It is an artful arrangement of shape, colour, and texture. A series of circles around little fuzzy blue creatures (called Sonik) forms the central core of the mural.
More information on Beyond Walls
Photos taken July 2024
below: An emoji come to life and he’s laughing so hard that he’s crying. His phone is his window on the world, but in reality it’s also someone else’s window. This painting by Spok Brillor marks the passageway from Lafayette Street to a courtyard full of street art behind a building that is home to the Punto Urban Art Museum.
below: In a quiet corner, sits a little metallic fellow (by Pixel Pancho) and a blue peacock (?)
below: Strawberry Shortcake is also here with a wise message about eating cake first (by Megzany). She first appeared as a doll in 1979 after being featured in Hallmark greeting cards for a few years before that.
below: One of the larger murals back in the courtyard is “Doña Mecho” by the duo Dúo Amazonas (Lina Castellanos and Nati Andreoli).
below: Farmers in their fields with mountains behind. This is “Mural De Campo” by Rigo Peralta, Melanio Guzmán, and Ramón Santiago
below: Radiating lines and a smiling face in a mural (“Migrar”) by Felipe Ortiz and Ivan Salazar.
below: Equality, by Goma and Amby
below: A quiet corner among the trees.
Punto Urban Air Museum (PUAM) is located in the Point neighbourhood of Salem and one of it’s goals is to “create a beautiful, uplifting environment for Point residents”. It also hopes to tap into the tourists that visit Salem – to get them to explore the area and help the economy of the Point neighbourhood. There are now more than 90 murals painted here. Not all of them are shown in this blog, but there some of the other Salem posts:
Photos taken July 2024
below: Wall of street art on a building in the Kaka’ako district.
below: This portrait of a man is by Portuguese artist Vhils (aka Alexandre Farto). Vhils is known for his unique “scratching the surface” technique, which involves carving, drilling, and chipping away at layers of plaster, posters, and dirt on walls to create images. The mural was created as part of the annual POW! WOW! street art festival in 2014.
below: Paradise and Beyond is written on the large mural in the middle but I think that the title is actually “A Big Wave”. Also written is Melón which refers to the artist MelonJames & Co. (with a shout out to alohabohs – aka Mike). This was painted in 2020, also as a POW!WOW! piece.
below: A tall tree on yellow.
below: In the shadows to the left of the tree, is a door that has been boarded up and covered with Mickey Mouse-ish images. The headline on the poster in the window reads Congrats Hawai’i, Give Yourself a Hi-5. There is then a lot of text that I can’t read.
Photos taken July 2025
