Don Wilkinson
In New Bedford, there is an alley that runs between Pleasant Street and Purchase Street known as Sears Court. The eastern entrance of the alley is bookended by a Family Dollar store and the Greasy Luck bar and restaurant, the western side has a monastery on one side and a police station on the other.
There was never anything particularly memorable about that drab, much-used pedestrian throughway, except the treacherous winter ice and a catwalk above that connects two buildings on either side.
Until now. Up on the catwalk, the words “Sears Court” have been painted to resemble giant refrigerator alphabet magnets.