Really nice homemade hand-painted fence signage. This sighting made me recall how excited I was to learn to draw the new version of the Penguins' logo as seen above when it was unveiled in 1992. I'd guess that this sign was originally painted around then and has been maintained throughout the years.
What visit to Millvale would be complete without some goodies from the Jean-Marc bakery?
That's where I found these black and gold bootleg smiley-face cookies. An interesting spin on two home town staples, the Eat n' Park smiley cookies and of course everything B n' G. Leave it to a Frenchman!
Later I showed the photo to my friend Rob, who provided his own bootleg version of his favorite 'moody' cookie face, as seen here:
That evening, in making my way back through Millvale after a trip to the North Hills, I found this:
This painting which appears to be in progress is on the back side of a sports bar called Sidelines. I love it in its current state because with very limited geometric/color information it is able to convey exactly who and what it is intending to represent. Also it is interesting that the person most articulated in this painting is Heath Miller, who is not usually the first in the who's who among Pittsburgh football and hockey personnel. I also love that the triangles on the two hockey players, presumably Fleury and Crosby, hearken back to the 1990's version of the Penguins logo, as seen in the above fence painting. I eagerly anticipate the completion of this painting (will the receiver on the right be a super-muscely Hines Ward?!? Will the passer be ID'd as Roethlisberger?!) and/or it's ongoing incompletion.
this painting has actually been 'in progress' for at least a year, i remember seeing it a while back...maybe it is actually 'finished'!
ReplyDeletemillvale has a lot of amazing-looking bars. i want to go the the mason jar
Hey chickpealady! Just now figured out how to reply to comments here...let's hit up the Mason Jar for a poster meeting!
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