85The Bridge Held Up by Laundry
Painted mural on the side of Mission Waco’s Clothesline resale store, 1817 Franklin Ave · artist not on record — the wall is unsigned, and Destination Waco’s mural directory carries it with no artist and no year · Mission Waco owns the wall but is not the maker · know who painted it? Tell us.MURAL
Waco's Suspension Bridge, rebuilt out of socks.
Give it a second. It's the Suspension Bridge — four brick towers, right there in pinstripes — except the cables have been replaced with a clothesline, and the clothesline is strung with laundry. Shirts, socks, a little dress, jeans, all pegged up and swaying. Which means the laundry is doing the bridge's job. Waco's most famous crossing, held up entirely by somebody's Tuesday wash.
It's painted on the side of Mission Waco's resale store, which makes the joke land twice: this is a wall about secondhand clothes holding a city together, on a shop where secondhand clothes hold a city together.
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