Julie Turley, Shawn Hoke, Kenan Christiansen and Lindsay Wengler, members of The Local East Village Flickr Group, share their images of a murals outside Mars Bar in recent years.
Shawn Hoke
Aug. 11, 2008
Julie Turley Jan. 23, 2009
Julie Turley “The Mars Bar murals were often informational (advertising art shows) always sloppy and ephemeral, like the art on the walls of the fading Coney Island.”
— Julie Turley
Feb. 23, 2009
Julie Turley “I love public art and love marginal or unsanctioned public art more. I considered the Mars Bar an evolving art project. I felt compelled to record the murals based on the ephemeral nature of the murals and what I perceived to be the ephemeral nature of the Bar itself.”
— Julie Turley
Aug. 27, 2009
Oct. 21, 2009
July 27, 2010
Julie Turley “There was always something lurid about the murals, too, something that captured the ragged spirit of the pre-Disney era Times Square uptown. And there’s relatively little of that left in Manhattan these days!”
— Julie Turley
Nov. 17, 2010
Shawn HokeThis mural adorned Mars Bar about a month before the deal was brokered that will see a 12-story condo built on the site.
May 11, 2011
Shawn HokeEarlier this year, a mural anticipated the end.
May 19, 2011
Kenan ChristiansenDays later, someone tagged an update.
June 19, 2011
Lindsay WenglerThe last mural by the artist Terry Galmitz.
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