Here’s just a quick one.
Regular readers might remember a series of entries I posted starting in 2010 (!!!) about a patch of street art I’d remembered from my distant youth in the early `80s, specifically a graffiti mural dedicated to the Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics. When I first posited the notion in 2010, I didn’t really expect to ever solve the puzzle until, quite amazingly, in the spring of 2021, I did some creative Googling on found photographs of it.
From there, I did some more searching, and came across a more vivid depiction of “Wendy’s Wall” courtesy of trailblazing graffiti photographer Martha Cooper, who’d captured a great image of it for a book she’d put together on the Graffiti Hall of Fame. Not only did I go out and buy her book, but I also reached out to the photographer’s representatives to see if I could buy a print. Suffice to say, the price they quoted talked me right out of that endeavor, I’m sorry to say.
In the wake of those discoveries, I’ve since made a few pilgrimages up to the Graffiti Hall of Fame to see the location in person. The Plasmatics mural, of course, is long, long gone – covered, presumably, by decades and decades of graffiti turnover, as is the nature of the discipline, I suppose. It’s never “supposed” to last very long. While art espousing some of my favorite music may no longer be the order of the day, up there, it’s well worth a stroll-by, if you’re ever in that neighborhood.
In any case, today – apropos of nothing – I randomly found another photograph of “Wendy’s Wall” – this time a cleaner, sharper version -- also snapped by Martha Cooper in 1982. Here that is now:
Cool, right?
Here, meanwhile, is a little more about The Plasmatics from that very same era….
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