T&T Market, part 3 of 3: north wall

This is the third and last post about the former supermarket. The previous post was T&T Market, part 2 of 3: east wall. Today we'll look at the north wall.

The whole wall and a bit of the front (at left):

Three closer photos from left (east) to right (west):

I was there September 17, 2024.

T&T Market, part 2 of 3: east wall

Last time, we saw the south side of this former supermarket along 31st Street in T&T Market, part 1 of 3: south wall. Today it's the east side. Here's the whole front:

The left (south) side of the front:

The right (north) side of the front:

I was there September 17, 2024.

T&T Market, part 1 of 3: south wall

SES, also known as Monty Esposito, has done a lot of painting (with help, I'm sure!) in the couple of blocks southwest of the corner of 6th Avenue and 30th Street in South Tucson.

This week we'll look at the long-closed T&T Market, which has been brightened up with murals along three of its sides. Today, the south wall along 31st Street. Google Maps Street View shows a blank white wall along here in April, 2022. So the wall was painted sometime after that.

I couldn't catch the entire wall at once. I'll start at the west (left) end, which is near an alley, and work my way east to the corner of 6th Avenue.

Painted on Major League Painting

A mural on a painting shop, Major League Painting in South Tucson:

Unfortunately, people have written on the white areas of the lettering and at the bottom right:

I guess that's better than trashing the mural itself!

Casa de Bernie Sedley revisited

December 28, 2011, we showed a small mural on a big building in Casa de Bernie Sedley. Pima County Public Library's website has a page Casa de Bernie Sedley - Name Origin with a bit of info and a photo of the building. When I was there again on September 17, 2024, a sign at the parking lot says the building houses the City of South Tucson Housing Authority.

That little mural still seems to be missing one tile at the top left corner. Here it is on September 17, 2024:

For some reason, in our 2011 blog post we didn't show the big tile mural in front of the building:

The left and right sides aren't straight. To show that, I've enlarged the ends of the original photos and replaced the background with grey:

There are lots more murals in this visit to Mural Heaven — South Tucson, that is. More next time.

Simple corner in South Tucson: 29th at 8th

South Tucson is a mural hotspot. To get an idea, open our mural map (click “Mural map” in the right column of any page or go to map.tucsonmurals.org). Then scroll to, say, the corner of 29th Street and 6th Avenue… and look at all the pins.

There are elaborate ceramic tile murals on main streets. On both main streets and side streets are some spectacular painted murals; we'll see new ones later this week. There are also intersections painted with murals you can see by looking down at the pavement, and intersections like the one below with murals on the corners. Take a tour someday: Bring the mural map and wander… you can click on a map pin to see what mural you might find there. (Note that we can't keep the map perfectly up to date because murals change constantly… though we try! If you have a correction, please email us from the contact form in the right column. For any missing mural, we'll change the red pin to a yellow scissors… you can click the scissors to find what mural used to be there.)

There are three corners with simple murals surrounding the corner of 29th Street and 8th Avenue. Google Maps Street View shows the corners without murals in January 2021, so these were painted in the past four years.

The northwest corner:

The northeast corner:

The southeast corner has little dusk desert scenes that are hard to see in the overall photo. So I also took photos of just the left and right sides:

I was there on September 17, 2024, to see a lot of murals in the neighborhood. More next time.

Agave at Twenty Two

The southwest corner of this apartment complex, on the south side along 22nd Street, has a sunny mural:

I drove by on September 3, 2024.

A lotta bulls

This mural is on the meatmarket Carniceria Los Toritos, in a strip mall that's been restored over the past few months. I stopped by on August 31, 2024:

A colorful Christmas along Dodge (at Ajo)

If you're looking for a tasty mural on Christmas, head for the Dodge Blvd. along the block north of Ajo Way — just west of Alvernon — to see a super-long series of murals painted by Sergio Lopez Noperi:

I walked its length from the left (south) to right (north), along the block of Dodge n. of Ajo, and took side-by-side closeup photos as I went. There are enough photos that I didn't do my usual careful editing: Some photos are tilted and I usually haven't cropped off the distracting background. Here we go:

I was there August 4, 2024. I haven't gone back to see if the artist has painted what looked to me like an unfinished flag and the skyline over mountains in the past three photos.

Here's a closeup of his signature from near the beginning:

Sergio's Instagram is Fire in the brush.