Congress mural parade 2 of 3: 914 W. Congress

At the southeast corner of Grande and Congress, a couple of blocks west of Mercado San Agustin, is Menlo Home & Garden. (It's not Menlo Home Goods, which we saw last time in Part 1 of 3.) The west wall is covered with a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe. Let's start with the mural in 2007 — from our December 31, 2007 post Virgin Videos?

Now to May 5, 2024:

This place is very much alive. Here's the same spot at sunset on January 13, 2024:

As you'll see below, in the series of photos from Google Maps Street View, the area shown above used to be closed. Also, the mural was tagged (!?!) in May 2018 or before and had been restored by April 2019:

January 2008

June 2011

May 2018: mural tagged

April 2019: mural restored

Next time, we'll cross the intersection to La Chaiteria, tumerico and Ashtanga Yoga.