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The trio has made trips home in 1982, 2002, 2014, 2022 and 2024. Each time the artists have added new buildings and historical structures to the piece, Turner said. "(Additions are) normally dictated by whatever is happening in popular culture at the moment,... It keeps the mural alive. It is a
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objected to it under its sign ordinance. In June 2012, after more than a year of battling over murals and building permits, Bee Cave City
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named after one of Awn's characters, lounge lizard Ronnie
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where his outlandish characters drew attention. Awn continued with Esther's
Follies as a regular for thirty years until 2011. He has also been a regular at the
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living, evolving, growing thing." Awn expected the original mural might to last five years, adding, “We didn’t know it was gonna still be up 50 years later.”
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Other murals by Kerry Awn can be found on Planet K stores in the Austin area. One became the subject of a criminal charge, when the
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