Recently, when I went to Open Streets Lyndale in Minneapolis, I noticed the Whittier mural painted on the side of the former Oar Folkjokeopus record store building at 26th Street. It's probably been there for a while, but I don't visit the area very often anymore, so I hadn't noticed this detail:
At the center of the mural, just under the name of the neighborhood — with a central character's eyes and the faces of birds pointing to it — is a heart, as in "Heart of Whittier."
That's a common enough idea, but how many neighborhoods would have their mural show a fairly realistic rendering of a human heart, instead of the simplified symbol of a heart?
That's the kind of place Whittier is.
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