A little taste of the Crestview profile I wrote for Real magazine — and a link.
Any initial stroll through Crestview should begin at the Wall of Welcome.From a distance, this low barrier along Woodrow Avenue at Crestview Center looks like an ambitious work of folk art.
Look closer. The bright tiles by artist Jean Graham, made with the help of area residents and completed in 2008, picture people and places with distinctive flair. A series of medallions shares a precise, thorough and graceful history of the Crestview and nearby Brentwood subdivisions.
Every neighborhood should be so lucky. …
Photo by Ralph Barrera