Grateful | Eyes on the Streets

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.

mural, a view of West Pearl Street, Nashua NH in 1909 with Tremont House which was a hotel, in the foreground — The mural was painted by Barbara Andrews

below: This painting is on the back of a building in a downtown parking lot.

mural in a Nashua New Hampsire 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.

Martha's Muse, was painted by Manuel Ramirez from Positive Street art. shows woman sitting at a table drinking beer

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.

mural from Positive Street Art, What we are grateful for, kindness, family, nature,pets, outdoors, faith, second chances, words are written on rays of the sun that are shining through 4 trees, one for each season,

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.

mural, spring tree is full of white blossoms with words like, honesty, shelter, blessings, freedom, alive, sharing, happiness, music, animals,

below: At the winter end of the mural snow covers the branches of the otherwise bare tree. But the sun keeps shining.

tree in winter, snow on the branches, in a mural, sun's rays with words on them, resources, acceptance, siblings, sunsets, care givers, every day, rainbows, dancing, art,

below: She is blowing lots of bubbles here, in the third Positive Street Art mural of this post.

young girl blowing lots of bubbles in a mural for 50th anniversary of Rotary Club of Nashua West

below: The full mural. It was painted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Nashua West.

mural for 50th anniversary of Rotary Club of Nashua West

hand holding a glass globe full of water, street art mural

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.

part of a mural, a list of questions called

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.