Byron, Ca is a small city between better known places like Brentwood and Tracy. It was on drives between these two places that I found this Welcome to Historic Byron mural. These are drive-by shots from the two lane Byron Road that connects it to Tracy, CA.
The Welcome to Historic Byron mural is a picture of train, a building labelled Byron Times and people who seemed to belong to the early 2oth century — clearly a look at the history of the town. These murals made me want to read up on Byron. And what I learnt was that Byron was not always this quiet little town it seems to be today. In the 1900’s it welcomed many a famous person to a fairly well-known resort called Byron Hot Springs, which fell victim to several fires and other misfortunes. It seems to have some rail history too.
According to a local newspaper, this mural is said to have been designed by Chantelle Leighton and local artist Bill Weber. And put together by several artists*. And the mural seems to have been on those metal walls since 2013.
* Added later: Gallagher Designs is said to have completed the project. (Source: in the comments)
Do you have more information on this town in Contra Costa county to share with us? Let us know in the comments.
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This is great.
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Thank you for coming this way, Jim.
I would like to say that after BI’ll Weber abandoned this mural, I Jo Ann Gallagher from Gallagher designs was hired to paint it. I collected old town Byron pictures and painted over what had been started. I repainted the entire thing. Keeping to the original plan. No one but my husband helped me. I have plenty of photos of myself painting it.
Please correct your info.
Thank you
Hello again, Jo Ann,
It looks like you missed my reply and the correction/addition to the post. It’s been up for a couple of days now.
Thank you, once again — for the info. 🙂
Nice mural – plenty of history being told.
The place has quite a story behind it, but destroyed by fire and Depression it seems. There was talk about renovating the whole site but even that website has had no update since 2007! http://byronhotsprings.com/newsroom.html
It does look like the town has quite a bit of history, does it not?
The resort — it looks like — met with a lot of misfortune. And it also seems that Byron Hot Springs was so much a part of the history of this town. Thank you for the link, Debbie. So nice of you. 🙂
Have a great week.
A beautiful old-time mural.
It sure is, Debbie.
I love how they gave it that ancient look and feel. 🙂
Like this mural ,extra difficult by the pleated plating as underground.
I hear it took several years and many artists to complete this work of art. I’m guessing the unevenness made it a difficult project.
Thank you for visiting, SC. 🙂
…this big boy sure loves trains!
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Have a great week, Tom.
I like “historic” murals like this one. Great find.
This one made me very curious about the city. Historic murals mean learning. 😉
Thank you. 🙂
I would like to say that after BI’ll Weber abandoned this mural, I Jo Ann Gallagher from Gallagher designs was hired to paint it. I collected old town Byron pictures and painted over what had been started. I repainted the entire thing. Keeping to the original plan. No one but my husband helped me. I have plenty of photos of myself painting it.
Please correct your info.
Thank you
Hi Jo Ann.
Thank you for the additional info. I’ve added it to the post. It’s a great mural. 🙂