“In October 1952, artists (from left to right) Larry Lushbaugh, Jay Hannah, Sam Colburn, Dick Lofton, and Ellwood Graham put finishing touches on five abstract murals on the back wall of a service station facing Sixth Avenue. The colorful—and highly controversial—15-foot pieces lasted only 18 months. Joe Kline, of Kline Electronics, “worried about the moral fiber of our American way of life” and “this monstrosity called modern art,” painted them out. (Photograph by Arthur McEwen; courtesy Alan McEwen collection.” Monica Hudson, Images of America, Carmel By-the-Sea, page 81