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Green Today, Gone Tomorrow

Vandalized last week by taggers, a store's green façade gets a whitewash—and raises an intriguing question.

Until recently, the store on  4765 Eagle Rock Blvd. had a front wall painted brightly in green—a tribute by the innovative pop-up art project known as The Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop to Eagle Rock's official color. About two weeks after the store closed on June 3, when we last reported about this location, the storefront was tagged by vandals. Now, the graffiti is gone—and as these photos show, so is the store's green face.

Bettina Hubby, the artist and curator who launched The Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop on April 1, encountered many surprises during her store's short, two-month life. Among them, the most hilarious undoubtedly was the reaction of the store's landlord to the green color that Hubby chose for the store's exterior—and interior.

"He thought it was a marijuana shop," Hubby told Patch earlier this month during a party she had thrown to celebrate the store's closing.

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It's perfectly understandable that the landlord would have been baffled by Hubby's heavy emphasis on green. But Patch—whose own 'official' color happens to be green—thinks there's an amusing irony in the fact that green has long been synonymous with Eagle Rock and that it's also the favored color of marijuana advocates, with whom many community leaders are often at loggerheads.


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