Above: a 1995 Harry Lyrico print included within Jeff Ferrell's book Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy:
Jeff Ferrell writes about the inclusion of the Lyrico image:
"Harry's 'Mona Lisa' piece illustrates a short discussion in the book about Harry and Bob Waldmire, another brilliant pen and ink artist and dedicated wanderer (RIP to them both), and is part of that chapter's larger fantasy of reworking the old Towering Inferno (Denco graffiti writer hangout – now the Flour Mill Lofts) into a sort of anarchist urban cultural utopia."
Above: The abandoned Longmont Flour Mill in
Denver (now the Flour Mill Lofts), a onetime haunt of Harry (HL86) and the
graffiti crew The Syndicate. (Image: History Colorado.)
I remember the Towering Inferno well. I would cross the railyard, sometimes clambering on and off slow moving trains, to visit the art. I was telling my grandchildren about this yesterday as I drove them to school. I'm not sure they believed me.
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