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McPhillips Street Underpass
Location Map
The Countess of Dufferin (left pentagram); Prairie Dog Central (right pentagram).
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Location: McPhillips CPR Underpass, W side bet. Logan & Jarvis; East Face
District: McPhillips-Keewatin
Neighbourhood: Weston
Artist(s): Paul Ullrich
Year: 1996
Sponsors: Take Pride Winnipeg!, General Paint, Amercoat Canada, Wyatt Rentals, The Sign Source, Western Industrial Services
Painters: Eddie Radivojevic, Clayton Schrodter, Sandra Suvajac, C. Andrianna, Claire Roberston, Tammy Leigh Isfeld, Neil Chenier, Claire McMillan
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Paul Ullrich: "I did all the priming of this wall myself. With a roller and a brush it took
me about a week. You notice that very odd shape- the five-sided pentagram? This Mural
was actually going to go on the Keewatin Street underpass. That's the exact shape of
where it was going to go on THAT underpass and I measured it all out as that's near my
house. But Winnipeg Hydro the sponsor threw me a curve. They wanted it to be within
their jurisdiction. At this time before Winnipeg Hydro was bought out by Manitoba
Hydro, their border ended on Keewatin Street. One side of the street was theirs but the
other side was Manitoba Hydro's. So they said 'do you think you can do it on McPhillips
Street instead' so I did, but I decided against reworking my design since I'd already put a
lot of work into it. I was using a grid back then to scale with 1 inch equalling 1 foot."
"All of the extra work you see, the silhouettes the trains the tracks and the other little
designs; those weren't even in the original mural plan but were done to help fill in the
space because what Take Pride Winnipeg has found is that if you leave blank spaces on
the wall, the taggers may respect the artwork but then tag the empty spaces."
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