The Over-the-Wall Club: What’s on the Other Side?

looking over graffiti-covered fence and large building to moon in sky
The moon is just one celestial body waiting for us on the other side. Moon morning walls, Lawrenceville

“What’s on the other side?”

That evergreen question-koan has motivated—and haunted—explorers from Leif Erikson to Harry Houdini. The Over-the-Wall Club is no exception.

In our last post, the wall-eyed went deep into the wall. This time the crew looks up, over, and around some of our favorite walls to ponder the mysteries of the universe. What’s on the other side? Sure, but also Where are we going? and What happened before we got here?

Heady stuff, indeed, but we’d expect nothing less from our team of urban alchemists who can stare deep into—and over—a stack of bricks and turn the experience into a portal to another dimension, free of space and time.

Welcome to the rest of your life, just lookout for a few walls along the way.

large new condo building behind old brick wall
Something old and something new, Lawrenceville
large industrial building on sunny day
Big blue, Lawrenceville
large wall painted in four colorful quadrants
Wall quarters, New Kensington
exposed side of brick row house
A house unglued, Knoxville
brick wall with covered-over window
Stay out, Duquesne
brick garage wall with small mural
Still life with wall and tire, Friendship
side wall of brick row house with fences
Over-the-fences over-the-wall, Lawrenceville
row house with exposed interior wall of former adjoining house
Inside-out wall, Hill District
large tiled building with wooden fence
If these walls could sing! Bloomfield Liedertafel Singing Society
large brick building with painted message for The Good Time Bar
This way to The Good Time Bar, Millvale

2 thoughts on “The Over-the-Wall Club: What’s on the Other Side?”

  1. Roger B. says:
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    This longtime landscape / urban neighborhood photographer applauds the images in your Wall Series of posts!
    In the early 1960s, we used to visit a family friend who lived on Richbarn Road in Brighton. From his backyard we observed a long and high brick wall. Behind it was (maybe still is) the Little Sisters of The Poor convent. Always wondered what the convent grounds looked like … but we never attempted a visit.

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