Colonial Cleaners

Located at 3701 Lyndale Ave S Minneapolis Colonial Cleaners is an environmentally friendly launderer

Unsure who painted this mural but I guess they wanted to bring us to a peaceful European styled village in a valley. Photo taken 05.23.2009

Corner of Murals

W 38th Street & Grand Ave in Minneapolis has an intersection filled with murals.

This mural is done by Artist Tammy Ortegon, the owner of Color Wheel Salon and Gallery. It is on the side of Peter Pan Cleaners (22 W 38th St Minneapolis)
Photographed 05.23.2009

The side of Better Than Ever located at 3800 Grand Ave S helps brighten up the corner with a deep blues & greens.
Photographed 05.23.2009; Artist & Title Unknown

@ the same corner; Photographed 05.23.2009; Artist & Title Unknown

Note that my previous post about Femaya @ Victor's 1959 is also at the same intersection.

Femaya at Victor's 1959

One of my favorite restaurants in Minneapolis is in the Kingfield neighborhood, Victor's 1959 Café For anyone who has visited this eclectic Cuban restaurant knows that the flare doesn't stop with the food on the plate, nor the decor on the table, walls, employees, it extends out the door (where patrons often wait in a line on the weekends to get to this treat) and to the walls outside.

When I stopped at this location recently I talked with one of the staff who informed me about the one mural painted on the wall outside. The mural, entitled Femaya is an afro-latino painting done in the summer of 2003 by visiting [from Cuba] artist Lydia Aguilera Sanchez.


Femaya (above); Unknown below; both taken on 05.23.2009
3756 Grand Ave S Minneapolis (Grand Avenue S & W 38th Street)