Four months later, Lee Pantazis’s secret is out.
Last August, Pantazis, Gus’s Hot Dogs owner, let me in on a secret. He told me that once his business secured the appropriate permits, he was going to have a mural painted on his establishment’s blank eastern wall honoring civil rights hero John Lewis, an Alabama native who died July 17.
For all the mural-seekers out there, the new mural is on 1915 4th Ave. North. The artist who painted the portrait and words of Lewis is Dewon Moton.
I met up with Lee and Dewon on to ask both of them about the new mural and its message.