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Butterfly Kids Chris Bell Pacific Grove Post Office 680 Lighthouse Avenue Bronze |
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Pacific Grove Mural Project Recreation Trail Jim Jim's Wedding Merlin and Nancy Brown 222 Grand Avenue (On side of Pacific Grove Cleaners) |
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Mural Sally Russell 206 Forest Avenue A holdover from the days when this was Sally Russell's shop. Sadly, it was painted over by a tenant in 2005. |
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Life at the Top Chris Bell Berwick Park Bronze |
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Fossil Display 116 Fountain Avenue Private residence, please do not disturb occupant. The barn-like house where these fossils are displayed was built around 1910. |
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WPA Mural Victor N. Arnutoff Pacific Grove Post Office 680 Lighthouse Avenue |
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Sandy the Whale Larry Foster Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History Forest and Central avenues Concrete Penn-o-rama postcard |
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Window at Tessuti Zoo 171 Forest Avenue (831) 643-2606 Emily Owens' fabric-art gallery window displays a changing palette of colorful and fantastic creatures. |
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Meat on the
Bay Mural (Was painted over with a different mural of picnicing Pagrovians.) |
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Colossus of Gold Richard Andolsen 222 Central Avenue Composition Constructed by Richard Andolsen as a tribute to the once-and-future Pagrovian resident, John Steinbeck. He holds the book East of Eden. The house where the statue sits is home to the John Steinbeck Arthurian Spiritual Society (JSASS). |
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Mural The Mural School 300 David Avenue Across from Carrow's Inscription reads: "Once I saw two Victorian ladies rafting on Lake Majella that used to be down by Asilomar, before the Sand Plant ate all of the sand dunes." |
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Creative Paint Jobs Some of the houses in Pacific Grove are so creatively painted that they could be considered public art. These examples are at the foot of Forest Avenue. Also noteworthy is the house on the 100 block of 12th Street, across from Greenwood Park. |
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Push Me Pull Me Gary White 1978 Pacific Grove Library 550 Central Avenue Bronze |
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Mr. Gardner Jesse Corsaut Pacific Grove City Hall (upstairs) 300 Forest Avenue Bronze |
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Cat Sculpture Clark Ashton Smith Lighthouse Avenue and 6th Street Local stone |
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Ceramic Tiles 222 Grand Avenue There are a number of sites around town that have old ceramic tile. |
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580 Lighthouse Avenue Right, fish tiles (Catalina) outside of the bank. |
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Butterfly See Don Bain's 360-degree full-screen panorama of the park at Lovers Point, including the Gordon Newell butterfly and the pointing boy statue. |
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There are some wonderful stained-glass windows (including a L.C. Tiffany window) at St. Mary's By the Sea church at Central Avenue & 12th Street.  |
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507 Central Avenue   Close-up of California history mural depicting Robert Louis Stevenson and Steinbeck on a bench having their portraits painted. |
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 Page contents and design copyright 2000-2007 by Esther Trosow. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, photographs are by Esther Trosow. Last updated June 24, 2007. |