New Images of A Vanished Past > Retro Eccentric Neon-Inspired Mesa

QUESTION: Why regret "things gone bye" when art and artists, like Mark Matlock, collaborate with public/private partnerships in Creative Place Making?
[see another post on this site at same location 19 Nov with a link to a time-lapse video by another artist Jesse Perry].
For one reason or another things disappear, but they have the staying power in our collective imaginations to get revitalized and regenerated in The New Urban DTMesa. . . in the hands of artists with paint brushes and spray cans on the side of a piece of downtown Mesa history.
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The site where these artists [and two more] are working on the installation is on the side of one of downtown's early businesses when the streets were crazy-busy with business, people and horse-and-wagons all over the place
See image to the right
And who was O.S. Stapley?

[I got curious since yours truly and one of his grandsons now 80 years old live in the same building two blocks away]

Orley S. Stapley was an influential member of early Arizona society. He was a member of the Arizona Constitutional Convention, where the Arizona Constitution was written in anticipation of statehood [1912].
He also served one term as the state senator from Maricopa County. In about 1908, he signed on as a dealer for the newly formed International Harvester Company. Eventually, Stapley became the largest International Harvester farm equipment dealer in the United States, as well as the owner of the largest mercantile business in Arizona during the 1940s and into the 1950s.
The image you see to the left has been cropped, O.S. Stapley's grandson tells me he was riding as a little boy inside the car driving on the Apache trail to the site of Roosevelt Dam.
... More later