Snoopy & the Red Baron to return to the Emeryville mudflats
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The artist, Tyler Hoare, plans to install them this weekend.
Not counting the time they were taken down as eyesores, he says they only last about 5 years maximum before the forces of nature destroy them. Some of his other creations have lasted as little as a day, because they were down at the waterline.
This may be the last time he can do it, though, as not only he is getting older, ( he's in his 70s), but there are only 3 posts left of the 20 or so that were there to mount his masterpieces on when he started.
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The discussion a month or two back drew so many nostalgic comments, I thought I should follow it up with this news, which gives a lot of authentic background, including why they have disappeared and reappeared in the past.