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What’s better than a post about cats? That there’s a 5Pointz graffiti cat? That Untapped Cities writer Rachel Fawn Alban adopted him? And that he now has his own Instagram, @graffiticatbaxter? All of the above.
Rachel has mixed in latergrams of Baxter, which she’s dubbed #Baxtergrams, at 5Pointz with images of him happily in his new home.
Image via @graffiticatbaxter by @mevents and @meresone
Read about 5Pointz’s original past as a water meter company, see a photo essay before the whitewashing, and images of the fateful whitewashing. Get in touch with the author @untappedmich.
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