Do you ever  find yourself driving down one of the severely pot-holed Melrose back alleys and gawk at all the graffiti? Almost every alley block on the south side of Melrose is chuck full of giant murals and paintings – artwork to some and illegal tagging to others.
We stumbled across a 12 minute film produced by KCET and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism that explores the graffiti scene on Melrose between Fairfax and La Brea which reached its peak in the late 1980’s, and still evolves today.
KCET: Pop-Life: Why Melrose Avenue is a Mecca for Graffiti Writers
Thank you for this story… An art form that is beautiful and progressive and critical to the identity of our city…