(no subject)
My old middle school, which is now also my oldest's middle school (boy, that feels weird, he's even in the same room I was in, in sixth grade), got some new murals painted on it during the summer. Sort of in the style of when the school was first built. When I went there, it was unpainted concrete and looked like a prison, and still had the original windows; it's been upgraded considerably since then. This school has the distinction of being rebuilt from having all of its floors collapse during the 1933 Long Beach earthquake; luckily that was at 5:54 pm so no one was there at the time.
Middle school
Huntington Beach CA
Canon EOS 1000D
15 September 2009
The surfer in this one is remiscent of Duke Kohanamoku, a native Hawaiian who got surfing started here in the 30's - there's a statue of him downtown and also in the Intl. Museum of Surfing there.
And of course, the oil rigs are a nod to how this city got its start.