111Papa Approves
The vintage-ad wall · painted for Andrews Cycle Works (Andrews Brothers Inc.) on the shop’s own building at 1701 La Salle Ave · the Sept 1978 cover date belongs to the painted magazine, not to the wall · artist not on record · know who painted it? Tell us.MURAL
A motorcycle shop painted its wall as a stack of 1970s magazine ads — and put itself on the cover. Price: 75 cents.
Andrews Cycle Works has been keeping Waco's motorcycles alive since the late seventies — repair, customization, race prep, and the patient resurrection of vintage machines most shops won't touch. So when the wall needed paint, it didn't get a mural. It got a magazine. The whole flank of the building is painted as a spread of period ads in newsprint blue and cream: a dirt bike crests a gravel hill under the headline PAPA APPROVES; a Triumph rider hangs in the air over a pen-and-ink treeline beneath a single word, READY.; and the third ad is for the shop itself — a café racer wearing number 505, cover-dated Sept 1978, cover-priced 75 cents.
The margins are the best part: a column of black-and-white engine cutaways like a parts catalog nobody could bear to throw away, and the badges of the old marques — Honda's wing, Ducati, Kawasaki, Yamaha's tuning forks, Laverda, Velocette — names from the era when motorcycles were drawn, not photographed. It stands one lot down from the Junky Monkey's crowned queen, which makes this stretch of La Salle the best two-stop art crawl in south Waco: royalty, then horsepower.
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