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In Frank Romero's, "Going to the Olympics" painting has a lot of cool and interesting stuff in it. There are cars with hearts above them, palm trees, a blimp with "Goodyear" spelling across it and symbols of the Olympics. I see iron, two men fighting, a horse and a stamp. All of these are most likely related to the Olympics. The cars probably mean that L.A has a lot of cars, especially since it was painted on a freeway and there is a bunch of traffic on them. Especially on the 405 at nights, which makes me think that the cars mean a bunch of traffic in L.A.
I think that Frank Romero knows how much we love and take care of our cars because, well he drew it on a freeway and L.A has a lot of freeways that are packed with cars. Along with the fact that they are in a straight line tells me that L.A is a busy city. The colors set a bright, happy mood about the cars and city. I think he knows how much important it is for people in L.A to have a car since it is a very busy city. He thinks that our car culture is very interesting because he drew hearts around them. Probably the fact that people even sometimes say, "American Muscle," which could also have an impact on Romero's view of car culture in L.A. Overall, I think that he
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Along with the fact that the city is going to pay to repaint it just is bad. It's honestly just a waste of money, a guy paints something on the freeway, it gets tagged up, sues the city, the city pays him and spends money to restore it. I also disagree with the city's response to restore it because it will not be as interesting as it was back in 1984 due to the fact that they are going to repaint the same mural. I disagree with the city's response to pay Romero because this happened a long time ago and the painting was basically set up to get tagged

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