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Thinking Outside the Utility Box
Next time you’re driving south on Atlantic Avenue—or east on San Antonio Drive—keep your eyes open for Welch’s. The popular Bixby Knolls family restaurant, which occupied the northwest corner of the intersection when men still wore hats, is back: as artwork on a traffic signal utility box at the intersection’s southwest corner. This can only mean one thing: Bixby Knolls, under the aegis of the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association, is revisiting its midcentury past, with the help of the city’s Redevelopment Agency. It’s a simple concept: the RDA has been spending a portion of its budget in recent years to retain a variety of artists who’ve painted scenes and abstracts on utility boxes across the city. Continue reading The District.