By Jennifer Wadsworth | @jennwadsworth – SanJoseInside.com – Photo: South Bay Visions.
Photo: “Mural de la Raza” is gone forever. But the property owners may not be entirely off the hook.
It was one of the oldest surviving murals in San Jose, California. Painted in 1985 by an artist named Jose Mesa V. and an ensemble of East Side youth, the intricate wall art depicted the history of Chicano people, from the Aztecs of old to the laborers led by Cesar Chavez. The detailed pictorial covered the side of Payless ShoeSource at Story and King roads, the epicenter of the low-rider movement and the civil rights marches that spawned the United Farm Workers union. “Mural de la Raza” is gone now.
