A 麻豆传媒映画time travelogue brought to you by聽.
When the BC government decided to install a聽聽at the court house (today鈥檚 VAG), the premier insisted that the work be聽聽until its official unveiling. Contractors were told to paint the hoarding hiding the fountain green and white (the colours of the ruling Socred Party), but Mayor Rathie had a different idea. He decided to issue permits to art students to paint the hoarding panels and give the three best pieces cash prizes.
The Big Paint-In kicked off with a聽聽between the City and Province over the plywood fence and a聽聽between an artist and a contractor. The City won the day and pretty soon more hoarding was added to create enough space for all the artists who signed up. The streets had to be shut down to聽accommodate the throng of spectators who came by to witness the fence being brought to life.
By all accounts, the whole spectacle was overwhelmingly positive and an antidote for whatever they called 鈥淣o Fun City鈥� in the 1960s.厂耻苍听肠辞濒耻尘苍颈蝉迟听聽gave his take on the unexpected success of the Paint-In:
The stunt has burgeoned into one of the brightest episodes in our town鈥檚 recent history. The response has been spontaneous, youthful and exciting 鈥� Everybody has approached the scheme with a single unabashed aim 鈥� to have a little fun. It鈥檚 the kind of thing one takes for granted in San Francisco. Most attempts to promote similar ventures in our town are usually submerged in serious-minded under organization. For a change it was all very San 麻豆传媒映画鈥�The crowds that clustered around the young artists all day long illustrated a lesson that is often lost on the planners and architects. It has to do with the heartbeat of a city, and the places where you find the action.
In our town the action is on Robson street, out around First and Commercial, or Nanaimo and Hastings, and a few other neighbourhoods that are so beat up the bureaucrats keep filing them away for future action. Nobody really cares what anybody does to the store fronts so the design panels and zoning commissioners don鈥檛 make too much of an issue of garish cafes and awful neon signs. Nobody, that is, except the people, who don鈥檛 really understand all the technicalities, but they know they can breathe in that atmosphere and they happily do.
After the success of the Paint-In, Calgary, Victoria, and other cities聽. As for the secret fountain, its December聽聽was upstaged by a major downpour and a prankster had dumped soap in the water causing it to spew suds all over the place.
Source: Photo by Leslie F Sheraton, City of 麻豆传媒映画Archives聽
