Mural Info
Artist: Chip Thomas
Location: Tennessee St betw 20 St & 22 St, Dogpatch
Current state: Available
Photo by: SF Mural Arts
Taken on: 17-Apr-2011
Views: 555
Using a friends’ building in San Francisco for a backdrop, the artist worked to put up portraits of two people and a neighborhood dog, BB. The Dogpatch section of San Francisco is the only part of the city left standing after the 1906 earthquake and the fires that followed it. Officially deigned a historic district in 2003, the nine square block section was initially an immigrant neighborhood with hand-built workers’ cottages, factories, and warehouses, many still standing. (read more from the artist's blog)
