The East Market Street parking garage opened to downtown York applause in 1969. It was built to meet a need for parking in the eastern section of the downtown. Background posts: York art museum (YOMA) touted as 'triple gateway', In search of proof that York Fair is nation's oldest and York's Central Market sells steak ... and sizzle.
If the authority overseeing York's East Market Street garage is going to spend $3 million to renovate the 40-year-old structure, it should also preserve the York Fair mural on its side.
I make that point in my York Sunday News column (8/24/08).
Several of the 18 large-scale panels in the Murals of York series are deteriorating. They simply weren't made to last forever, but to see them fall apart within a decade of their painting seems a bit early.
The mural is only part of the reason the East Market Street garage is a useful artifact of history, as I suggest in the column, 'Market Street Garage a symbol of a changing city' :
Continue reading It's not striking, but blocky parking garage tells a story of York.
