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Before & After |
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Library
wall before mural |
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Library
wall after mural |
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Library
wall after mural—a closer look |
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Making
Tiles |
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Pat
Welsh making tiles |
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Hans
Tegebo grinding molds (L), volunteer (R) pressing mold |
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Betsy
Schulz touching up tiles pulled from molds |
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Creating
template & transferring the wall |
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Betsy
Schulz placing tiles, bricks and stones on the template |
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Pat
(L) & Betsy (R) drawing from the template on the wall |
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Drawing
from the template on the wall |
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Applying & using
supports on the first tiles |
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Betsy
mixing thinset for the application |
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Matt & Dean
Johnson applying the first tiles to the wall |
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Volunteer
cleaning thinset off tiles |
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Community
volunteers made the wall a reality |
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Jeff
from the Del Mar TV Foundation filming the documentary |
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Judy
Burks, volunteer, cleaning as she works |
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Over
80 volunteers helped work on the wall |
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See
the unfinished wall in Quicktime VR (236kb)
Requires QuickTime. |
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We
involved children of all ages |
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Pat
teaching a child how to apply a rock |
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Everyone
was excited to help |
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Chad,
11, having fun working at the wall |
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Grouting & cleaning
the wall |
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Betsy & volunteers
grouting the wall |
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Tensia
grouting bricks in the wall |
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Cleaning
the grout off the surface |
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Dean
sealing, making volunteer tiles & placing the donor fish |
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Dean
Johnson sealing the wall |
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Pat
Welsh making signature tiles with Laird Plumleigh |
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Dean
(T), Christy (R) & Denise (L) working on donor fish wall*
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*Donor
walls with large garibaldi fishes ($500 and up) and smaller garibaldi
fishes ($250). Names on the fishes memorialize people and families
who donated funds for construction of the mural or beloved family
and friends. |
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Partners
in the details |
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Partners,
Betsy Schulz (L) & Pat Welsh (R) |
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Mosaic
tile pieces donated from Laird Plumleigh's bone yard |
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Gears
from a local water works company |
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Details
in the overall design |
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Many
of the items for the wall were from Del Mar residents |
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Yes
it really is a piece of the Berlin wall |
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Local
ceramic artist, Nikki Moore, made custom tile fish for the wall |
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