Comments on: Farmer John’s Hog Wild Mural ~ Vernon

By: Roger Whiting

Roger Whiting — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:43:33 +0000

I like this mural! Patriotic, and very silly :)

By: Casita Mexicana « The 10 and the 110

Casita Mexicana « The 10 and the 110 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:06:04 +0000

[...] Bell, and if you drive through Vernon, you will also get to see the Farmer John slaughterhouse pig murals, which I have been meaning to take a look at ever since reading about them in LA [...]

By: Philip Slagter

Philip Slagter — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:10:39 +0000

Hi I would like to correct the information in this entry:”This entry was written by pleasurepalate and posted on Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 7:36 AM and filed under Art, History, Tacos.”

Myself and my company, Slagter/Art, have been doing the Farmer John Murals for the past 10 years and for some reason we never get credited for the mural work…even after having articles in the LA Times years ago when we started.
After Arno Jordan had a heart attack and was unable to continue, Bernie Clougherty saw my murals of the San Antonio Winery on I-10 (http://www.findamuralist.com/mural_paintings/46194539.php) and called to see if I would like to continue the project. I said yes and have been painting new murals over the old and only occasionally repairing old murals.

All of the Jordan and Grimes work was done with house paint purchased at the local hardware store so the disrepair was so great when I started in 2000 that whole murals had to be scraped away and replaced with new work which I designed myself and then my crew and I painted the murals. We now use Nova Color mural paints which have a much longer life than house paint and holds to the wall much better.

We tried to keep the long wall on Soto Street as close to original as possible. Grimes and Jordan worked in a very flat style so we kept the same images and added more and then gave a more 3D effect to the renderings.

Without exception more than 90% of the images you show here on your site are original new murals and images done by myself or one of my crew members not by Grimes or Jordan.

You can see my murals and the Farmer John murals on a site where I promote my mural work. http://www.findamuralist.com/Montana/philip–slagter-corvallis.php

I would really appreciate you correcting these credits as it seems everyone who researches FJ just does the referencing through the internet so it is circular and my credits never get into the updates.

We are going to be doing some updating of the mural and some repair work on my original murals and one of the few of the Jordan/Grimes murals that is left starting in a few weeks, so drop by and meet us.

Thank you,

Philip Slagter for SLAGTER/ART

By: April Pennington

April Pennington — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:23:17 +0000

My father worked for Barney in the 60s and 70s and i remember when this mural was being done. A nice group of folks back then. I used to play in a outside pen with the pigs a couple times a year Thanks for the memories

By: West Side

West Side — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:06:33 +0000

Great shots. What kind of camera do you use? The colors really came out great… I love this mural and glad to see it on TACO

By: MAKEONE-WCAM7

MAKEONE-WCAM7 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:42:13 +0000

Awesome mural. The colors have always been my favorite. Just look at that red on that plane….the grass was made up of splatters/drips. Les took brushes dipped them in paint and then splatted the paint onto the wall. AMAZING and very time consuming.

Love cruising by there and seeing the mural – just hate the stench of HOG. LOL