{"id":398471,"date":"2026-07-14T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398471\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:19:50","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-the-wilhall-peace-mural-to-be-celebrated-in-wilmington-calif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398471\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of the Wilhall \u2018Peace\u2019 Mural to be Celebrated in Wilmington, Calif. &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Peace-mural.avif\" data-caption=\"Wilhall \u2018Peace\u2019 Mural\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"230\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image cwvlazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randomlengthsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Peace-mural.avif\"  data- alt=\"Peace Mural\" title=\"Peace mural\"\/><\/a>Wilhall \u2018Peace\u2019 Mural    <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mural titled, Increase the Peace, will celebrate 50 years of community pride since it\u2019s completion in April, 1976. Painted by Joe Bravo and a group of youth volunteers, the mural is located on the back wall of the Wilmington Recreation Center in Wilmington. Since its inception, the mural has been a call to non-violence, standing alongside generations of local residents as they\u2019ve grown up with both happy and sad memories that have helped define their lives. The mural continues to serve as a popular setting for capturing memories, frequently featured as the background for wedding shoots, classic lowriders, family, and group portraits.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities will include, a special prayer for the community, speakers, Ballet Folklorico, entertainment featuring dance by local children, D.J., low riders, hot dogs<\/p>\n<p>Time: 12 to 4 p.m.., July 25<\/p>\n<p>Details: For more info, please contact D.C. Chavez, offthehooklocal13@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Wilmington Recreation Center, 325 N. Neptune Ave. Wilmington<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilhall \u2018Peace\u2019 Mural \u00a0 The mural titled, Increase the Peace, will celebrate 50 years of community pride since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[160053,160054,131,133,132,38002],"class_list":["post-398471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-peacemural","tag-wilmingtonca","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-publicart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}