Leucadia Blog: Art Banners are UP!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Art Banners are UP!

Fred Caldwell and Danny Salzhandler hang the art banners every year. They receive no pay and Fred is scared of heights.

My favorite local artist Mary Fleener's banner this year.

My good friend Maggie Marsek is the only photographer in the banner project this year. She got some prime real estate for her banner.
When it stops raining go cruise the coast highway and enjoy all 50 101 art banners.
Watch a short video of the art banner unveiling event, click here.

5 comments:

AnonymousFebruary 27, 2010 11:05 PM
Fred is the true Mayor of Leucadia!

Our family loves Fred!

Thanks Fred for all your work to make Leucadia a bitchen place on Earth.
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FredFebruary 28, 2010 9:47 AM
Geesh, you and your family must be new here.
As much as I'd like to remain silent and get first billing with most of the credit for hanging all the banners, Walter Shaffer and I helped with 18 of them; Danny S. and another guy did the other 83 banners (taking all night long); Paula Kirpalani helps a lot when she can; and some guy named Mayor Dan showed up so we made him hang the one by the Econo Lodge.
But it's true I'm no Shaun White when it comes to heights.
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AnonymousFebruary 28, 2010 10:57 AM
a good council candidate hangs lots of art banners, plays with little kids, and hugs lots of women.
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AnnaFebruary 28, 2010 11:23 AM
"When it stops raining go cruise the coast highway and enjoy all 50 art banners."

May I suggest cruising with feet?
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AnonymousFebruary 28, 2010 5:07 PM
Fifty! There are 101. Please walk the coast from Leucadia to Cardiff. You can't believe what Danny has put together!
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About Leucadia

Leucadia is a funky little beach community located in North San Diego county in southern California. Leucadia is the north section of the city of Encinitas.

English spiritualists settled the small coastal community of Leucadia in 1870, and are reputed to have danced, in diaphanous white robes in the little Roadside Park (Leucadia Blvd and Hwy 101).

The spiritualists are the reason so many of the streets are named after Greek gods and goddesses. Leucadia is Greek for "a sheltered place." Heritage Eucalyptus trees, planted in the 1880s, still grace the highway. When President Roosevelt passed through Leucadia in an open car during the Depression, local children climbed the Eucalyptus trees to wave to him.

Change happens slowly in this nostalgic little California beach town. In lieu of fast food restaurants and franchise chain stores, Leucadia has two miles of Mom 'n Pop businesses, and that's the way everyone likes it. The town war cry is "Keep Leucadia Funky."

Leucadia played an active role in the rebirth of the classic Highway 101 shield, restored in 1997, and was part of the successful 101 Campaign to have Highway 101 declared an historic route.

Leucadia is experiencing growing pains and culture clash in these first decades of the 21st century...

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