Fallbrook Vintage Car Club donates $1,000 to complete mural restoration

FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Vintage Car Club donated $1,000 to complete the restoration of the "Main Street Circa 1920" mural. The entire community is grateful to the car club and the other generous donors who contributed to restore this much-loved mural on the corner of Main and Alvarado.

Several other pieces of public art are also in need of maintenance. The "Fat Happies" sculpture by Barrett DeBusk, located on the corner of Mission and Fallbrook streets, is rusting and in need of repair and painting. Residents are asked to consider any amount they can donate and know that in doing so, they are a part of the stewardship of Fallbrook's public art.

Online, go to www.fallbrookartinpublicplaces.org. Click on the "Support Us" tab, then "I want to support Public Art." By mail: make checks payable to 'Fallbrook Arts, Inc.', 103 S. Main Ave. Fallbrook, CA 92028. (Write SOS in the memo.) Or call 760-731-9584.

Art in Public Places is one of three projects governed by Fallbrook Arts Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The project is designed to create artistic harmony between the buildings, landscaping and open spaces in Fallbrook.Its purpose is to serve the people of the community and visitors by bringing art into our daily lives with murals and sculpture.

The goal of APP is to stimulate the vitality and economy of Fallbrook through cultural tourism and to enhance it's standing as a regional leader in the arts. Fallbrook Arts, Inc. is located at 103 S. Main Ave., Fallbrook, CA 92028.

For more information, go to fallbrookartsinc.org or call 760-731-9584.

Submitted by Fallbrook Arts, Inc.