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Performing Arts mural by Randy Spicer featuring jazz immortal Louis Armstrong, Eureka, California

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  1. America
  2. California
  3. Color
  4. Digital Photographs
  5. Eureka
  6. Louis Armstrong
  7. Murals
  8. United States

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