If
you live or visit in my neighborhood (mid-Polk), one of the things you'll
notice are the many sidewalk steam pipes painted red with white polka-dots. Some are old and beat-up
while some are fairly new.
They're meant to look like fly agaric mushrooms,
which are “known for the distinctive appearance, being bright red with white spots, and for their hallucinogenic properties....”.
They're meant to look like fly agaric mushrooms,
which are “known for the distinctive appearance, being bright red with white spots, and for their hallucinogenic properties....”.
I have no idea who started this, or if they're prominent in other neighborhoods as well.
They're even memorialized in cement.
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| On Hyde St. between California and Sacramento |
They're even memorialized in cement.
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© by Chris Enquist 4/30/18
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