Feb 8, 2019
February 8, 2019
FRANKEL'S COSTUME
by Scott Tarbox
With a history in Houston that goes back to 1950, Terrie and Lonnie Frankel moved their 40,000 sq. ft. costume shop to Polk St in early 2000 and say they were East End pioneers. The Houston neighborhood has seen dramatic changes in the years since but the Frankel's selling off their 57,000 costume inventory in early 2018 was a sad milestone for many, and now all that remains is the Scott Tarbox, aka Mr. T-Box, mural on the back. Painted for HUE Mural Festival in 2016, Houston artist Tarbox—who only picked up spray paint two years earlier—describes the work as a 50-foot macaw with a cat skull helmet, heading off to war. @tarboxx2/ @huemuralfest