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BR: We did a mural, which is actually the first time I met Buddy Cianci. We did a mural outside of the Biltmore Hotel, cause the Biltmore was completely shut down and there were these corrugated stone grades on the front of the building that basically sealed the whole outside of the building and they were really gross. We managed to get into Buddy's office, managed to get them to call Wescot , Slade, and Balcom ( spelling) which are now, they used to be on Westminster street. So he managed to get them to give us paint so we could paint the mural on the outside of the Biltmore, so we painted this funky mural, very simple abstract piece a bouncing red ball that basically if you drove it seven miles an hour the ball actually kind of bounced, it was animated and bounced. So we did that and at the same time I shot a lot of video with a portapac inside as they were doing the demolition inside of the hotel, because they gutted the entire thing.
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CR: What time in Providence's life was this? Was Providence at this time'
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BR: It was dead.
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CR: At the bottom?
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BR: Yeah, pretty much at the bottom, yeah, cause there was nothing going on. It was, yeah, it was pretty much the bottom at that point.