Remember this? I didn’t understand what it was at the time, but today I found out. A couple years back, artist Ledia Carroll plotted the former location of Mission Lake using this pleasant blue chalk. And a real field line chalker:
Now who wants to help me plot the former location of the 18th Street abattoir blood river using an unpleasant red chalk?
More chalk talk here: Restore Mission Lake Project. Thanks, LindyLula!
Do it again and we can get an arial photo!
Well, the removal of these little lakes and lagoons did have the side effect of significantly cutting down on the number of Mosquitoes in our fine city, which at various times in our history have carried Malaria and other infectious diseases. So, um, I can’t get too excited about restoring them.
Neat project, though.
That’s totally cool.
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