Oakland's Beloved Green Monster, Once Faded, Is Now Better (And Greener) Than Ever
The Mid-Century Monster, a children's play structure created in 1952 by artist Robert Winston for the shores of the city's Lake Merritt, had by 2015 become "a washed-up husk. Its chartreuse color had faded to a drab white. Several of its knobbly concrete limbs had begun to crack. … But this year, after a long […]