Ciudad de Oro Muncie Downtown Graffiti

The Ciudad de Oro graphic is a downtown "deep cut" -- a throwback tribute to some graffiti that graced a newly exposed wall in downtown Muncie in the early 2000s.  The old Masonic Building, an 1860s building on the northwest corner of High and Main Street that had been home to Miller's Tavern, was torn down in the late 1990s. The lot was allowed to sit and get overgrown, and on the newly exposed shared wall of the neighboring building, graffiti very similar to this graphic eventually appeared.  Given the state of downtown Muncie in the early oughts, the "City of Gold" (as it translates) is a fully ironic title.  The exposed wall was later repaired and finished, and the lot adopted as a small garden.