{"id":391999,"date":"2026-07-30T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391999\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:59:08","slug":"mural-in-los-altos-west-dallas-honors-hispanic-roots-of-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391999\/","title":{"rendered":"Mural in Los Altos, West Dallas honors Hispanic roots of neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at a new blue-and-yellow mural in West Dallas<\/a> and see a snapshot of the neighborhood\u2019s Hispanic, working-class roots.<\/p>\n

Called\u00a0The Ballad of Los Altos,\u00a0the mural by Dallas-based artist Alec DeJesus is on the side of a Hello! Deluxe Car Wash that recently opened in the Los Altos neighborhood.<\/p>\n

It measures 116 feet wide and 21 feet tall and shows a Hispanic family gathered around a work truck, a common sight in Los Altos, DeJesus said. He hoped to \u201ctake a romantic snippet of an everyday scene and show the humble greatness of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The truck is the mural\u2019s anchor, he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what this family has essentially used to carve out their life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted the mural to be respectful of the origins and traditions of the community,\u201d said Frank Nuchereno, owner of the car wash, \u201cand yet reflect a neighborhood that is in transition and is in growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

From left to right the mural depicts a young boy, a middle-age man, an old man and a mother with a baby in her arms. At night, the building\u2019s windows illuminate the figures.<\/p>\n

They are meant to represent the many multigenerational families in Los Altos and different life milestones, said DeJesus, who\u2019s turning 35 this year. The baby marks the beginning of new growth.<\/p>\n

A lightning bolt on the mural showcases that continuity. \u201cIt symbolizes the heartbeat of a community,\u201d DeJesus said. \u201cBut it\u2019s also an energy that\u2019s passed down through the composition, through life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mural also has some personal notes: The dog in the truck represents DeJesus\u2019 dog, Hank, a golden shepherd labrador mix who died at the age of 12 earlier this year.<\/p>\n

It is the reason why the middle-aged man reaches for the dog, but is unable to touch it, DeJesus said. \u201cThat\u2019s a little love letter to my guy Hank.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

DeJesus\u00a0incorporated the Hello! Deluxe Car Wash brand into the mural through the business\u2019 colors. It took him two and a half weeks to finish, with 15 gallons of blue paint and six to 10 cans of spray paint per day.<\/p>\n

He has painted about 20 murals in North Texas and this work is his largest single-wall mural yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was more exciting for me to watch the mural go up than it was to build the car wash,\u201d Nuchereno said. The business now has four locations in North Texas, including in Los Altos, and one more coming soon near the Dallas Zoo.<\/p>\n

Nuchereno has named the new location Hello! Los Altos.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell everybody, this is really a mural that has a car wash,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a car wash that has a mural.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look at a new blue-and-yellow mural in West Dallas and see a snapshot of the neighborhood\u2019s Hispanic, working-class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,87998,89018,95040],"class_list":["post-391999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-visual-arts","tag-tp-west-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}