wendyps Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Someone please tell me I saw that wrong. Yesterday I'm pretty sure I saw that the debauchery that was once Mary's Mural has been painted over!!! That is awful! Does anyone know the story? Is Mary's still open (I saw someone go in). I don't live in Montrose anymore, so I rarely see it, but I used to drive past it every day and get such a kick out of that mural! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Someone please tell me I saw that wrong. Yesterday I'm pretty sure I saw that the debauchery that was once Mary's Mural has been painted over!!! That is awful! Does anyone know the story? Is Mary's still open (I saw someone go in). I don't live in Montrose anymore, so I rarely see it, but I used to drive past it every day and get such a kick out of that mural! yes - it is now an off-white wall i don't get it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGraspo Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 yeah what is up with that. I looked foward to seeing that mural whenever i'm in the area. When I did pass by it was gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trophy Property Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 yeah what is up with that. I looked foward to seeing that mural whenever i'm in the area. When I did pass by it was gone.That is a shame. It was added much flavor to the already flavorful area. Is the bar still open. I will admit to going there before when I lived in the area. Fun place even for a chubby straigt guy like myslelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Street Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 i drive by every single day, but i don't see that mural because i drive on yoakum... i hope they are getting even better mural... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Fun place even for a chubby straigt guy like myslelf.Not that there is anything wrong with that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trophy Property Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Not that there is anything wrong with that... My wife likes me and that is all that really matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torvald Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 i was irked a few months ago when it got tagged. i've lived in montrose for 12 years and had never seen it tagged.the person's name only covered the solid green area of the pool table so i thought they could fix it easily... maybe it was tagged again and they gave up?this goes back to my usual complaint about tagging. permanentdamage to someone else's property, just to scrawl their nameon all wall with the talent of a first grader... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trophy Property Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 i was irked a few months ago when it got tagged. i've lived in montrose for 12 years and had never seen it tagged.the person's name only covered the solid green area of the pool table so i thought they could fix it easily... maybe it was tagged again and they gave up?this goes back to my usual complaint about tagging. permanentdamage to someone else's property, just to scrawl their nameon all wall with the talent of a first grader...I could not agree more. How rediculous is it to tag that mural. It added so much character to that building. Taggers should be shot !!!!Ok maybe put in jail for a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I could not agree more. How rediculous is it to tag that mural. It added so much character to that building. Taggers should be shot !!!!Ok maybe put in jail for a few weeks.No, shot is better.This is really sad. It was a big part of the character of Montrose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 That is a shame. It was added much flavor to the already flavorful area. Is the bar still open. I will admit to going there before when I lived in the area. Fun place even for a chubby straigt guy like myslelf. SSSSUUUUUUUURRRRREEEEEEE Trophy, if you say so. I believe ya ! (psssst........nmain said to PM him, whatever that means.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trophy Property Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 SSSSUUUUUUUURRRRREEEEEEE Trophy, if you say so. I believe ya ! (psssst........nmain said to PM him, whatever that means.) You got me. I am flaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groovehouse Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 I just noticed this this morning... they did leave what looks like a cat sitting on a barstool... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Taggers also hit the cool mural on 59 across from GRB. This is one of my faves. You can only see it from the elevated.The stupid tagger just wrothe their name in Gothic Ghetto font. THANKFULLY the real artist fixed it. This is one cool mural that we need to get a picture of.Does anyone else know which one I am talking about? From one angle it looks like aliens, and from the other it looks like a rolling highway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartalek Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 No, shot is better.This is really sad. It was a big part of the character of Montrose. I think a better punishment would be to take the tagger to his/her Mothers living room and say "do that wall over there" Talk about a reformation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trophy Property Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 I think a better punishment would be to take the tagger to his/her Mothers living room and say "do that wall over there" Talk about a reformation. Unless the Tagger's moms is proud of her kid.. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 I just noticed this this morning... they did leave what looks like a cat sitting on a barstool...That's Mr. Balls. He wandered into Mary's when he was barely more than a kitten, and decided to stay. He was named Mr. Balls because he had the most extraordinary testicles. They were enormous! Had his own barstool, and would get quite pissy with anyone who tried to move him. I've seen fights nearly break out when some of Mr. Ball's human friends would defend his turf against newcomers who didn't understand that he held an exulted position in that bar. Mr. Balls was a fixture for about 10 years, before he finally succombed to cancer - the effects of too much second-hand smoke, I assume.Was sorry to hear that the rest of the mural had been painted over, as I knew some of the people depicted. The bartender with the leather cap was Will ("Wilhelmina"), the plump lady at the bar was Cassandra, the portly fellow in leather harness was Scotty. He used to do Mary's front windows when they changed on a weekly basis, and was also the artist who painted that mural.I just hope Mary's doesn't replace its photo bartop, as there's a picture of me on it, circa 1983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 That's Mr. Balls. He wandered into Mary's when he was barely more than a kitten, and decided to stay. He was named Mr. Balls because he had the most extraordinary testicles. They were enormous! Had his own barstool, and would get quite pissy with anyone who tried to move him. I've seen fights nearly break out when some of Mr. Ball's human friends would defend his turf against newcomers who didn't understand that he held an exulted position in that bar. Mr. Balls was a fixture for about 10 years, before he finally succombed to cancer - the effects of too much second-hand smoke, I assume.Was sorry to hear that the rest of the mural had been painted over, as I knew some of the people depicted. The bartender with the leather cap was Will ("Wilhelmina"), the plump lady at the bar was Cassandra, the portly fellow in leather harness was Scotty. He used to do Mary's front windows when they changed on a weekly basis, and was also the artist who painted that mural.I just hope Mary's doesn't replace its photo bartop, as there's a picture of me on it, circa 1983.This was on the new Houston Press blog about the mural.So I guess there is a new one coming. No pun intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pulco Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Does anyone have a better picture of the Mural than the one linked to at the Houston Press article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispy Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Someone please tell me I saw that wrong. Yesterday I'm pretty sure I saw that the debauchery that was once Mary's Mural has been painted over!!! That is awful! Does anyone know the story? Is Mary's still open (I saw someone go in). I don't live in Montrose anymore, so I rarely see it, but I used to drive past it every day and get such a kick out of that mural!Yes, Mary's is still open...hopefully for a long, long time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 It's very open. in fact, I noticed while I was driving by yesterday that a new mural might be going up. Looks like a sky or something. Mr. Balls is still up there, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Does anyone have a better picture of the Mural than the one linked to at the Houston Press article?Yes. I have a friend who's selling prints of the mural. I don't have his contact info at the moment, but will PM you once I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agorist Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 No, shot is better. Poetic justice would have them shot with a paint ball gun ... several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MexAmerican_Moose Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 i still remember my days back when i attended Lanier via school bus....we would go down Westheimer and laugh at that mural every time we passed by it...too bad it is gone now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I was driving to work today, and the mural is back!I didn't stop to see, but it looks pretty much the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 I was driving to work today, and the mural is back!I didn't stop to see, but it looks pretty much the same.Is a bar still open there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted December 31, 2011 Share Posted December 31, 2011 No. Mary's is long gone; there's a coffee shop going in that building at some point though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 The former patio areas are being prepared for what appears to be a concrete slab (parking? new construction?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasota Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 parking, primarily for Hay Merchant and Underbelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Mary's will become Blacksmith Coffee, run by David Buehrer of the Tuscan Coffee place in Greenway Plaza, a really good coffee shop. It's a joint venture with the Anvil guys. Anvil, Blacksmith, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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