You may have noticed the mural going up across West Richmond Ave from Suzhou restaurant. It's Brian Elder's WPA-style snapshot of Point history, and by about mid-September it'll be ours too.

"What would happen if all the hard working, shady and trustworthy and not so hardworking got together and had a bit of a party?," he asks. Labor organizers, ne'er-do-wells, Rosie-the-Riveters, scallywags and everything in between--what if they all intersected?

He's rendering it all WPA-style with colors from Toulouse-Lautrec. He also remembers the huge Coca-Cola sign that was in the very same spot. And he pays homage to the late, great cartoonist who once lived in the building, Joel Beck.

I can't think of a better gateway.

See his sketch here. Keep in mind that your monitor or my scanning of his sketch may alter the colors from what he intends to put on the wall.