Old Town Saloon Murals - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 45.160 W 117° 11.705
11S E 481725 N 3623884
Located at 2495 San Diego Ave, San Diego, CA 92110.
Waymark Code: WMQAGE
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/23/2016
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The Old Town Saloon shares a building with Ye Olde Soap Shoppe in San Diego's Old Town. These murals have replaced the Soap Shoppe's mural which was Waymarked in 2009. See (
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Although the address is on San Diego Avenue..the murals are on the Harney Street side of the building.
One of these murals depicts a woman and five children standing in front of another mural of Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe. Another depicts John Wayne on the entrance to the saloon. A third depicts men standing in front of a mural of other men loading barrels (kegs?) onto a horse-drawn carriages.
All the murals are in a sepia-tone to resemble old photographs.
The murals have a dual signature "J.B. F.M. 2013" and "Mando".
This website (
visit link) has additional photos and informs us:
"There’s a fairly new street mural in Old Town that I really like. Every time I see it, my imagination travels back in time. Back to the first half of the 19th century.
San Diego for many decades was a tiny town seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Whether it belonged to Spain, or Mexico, or the United States, Old Town San Diego was a place of dusty roads and modest, sun-baked adobe houses, horses and wagons, rugged settlers and ranchers. Characters from that era seem to live again in this mural.
Artist Frank Mando painted this artwork in 2013. I couldn’t capture the entire piece in one shot. Enlivening a building at the corner of San Diego Avenue and Harney Street, the mural is divided in two by a door of the Old Town Saloon. Standing inside that door, as you’ll see, there seems to be a well-known movie star!"