Ortlieb's Brewery

Even Though, Ortlieb's Brewery ceased operations in 1980, in 1987 saxophone player Pete Souder reopened the bar as Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, featuring live jazz every night of the week, ranging from local house players to the internationally renowned. But, Adams does not represent anything about the Brewery’s whole ‘reality’ as being a unique home for jazz and how it was the ‘pulse’ to the neighborhood. Like Baldwin states in his essay, “Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes,” the acquisition of art or artistic experiences has become more sought after than the information or experience itself. Baldwin wrote, “The people who run the mass media and those who consume it are really in the same boat. They must continue to produce

"Coinciding with the immigrant population explosion and the growth of Philadelphia's industrial might, the brewing industry created jobs for newcomers. The Ortlieb's brewing industry gave the immigrants a sense of community and social identity. By second half of twentieth century,Philadelphia’s manufacturing economy experienced an inevitable decline. Adams did not show any representation about how when the brewery lost the business how it affected the neighborhood in the mural. As Baldwin might argue that the reason Adams might did not incorporate this reality in mural because of "people cannot bear an awful lot of reality". These move of Adams creates a cultural fantasy among the viewers.Another thinker who might agree with Baldwin is Yi-Fu Tuan. In his essay ,Realism and Fantasy in Art, History, and Geography,Tuan states

But it truly represent the fantasy of Philadelphia booming industrial era but fails to the represent the dark ‘reality’ during ‘ Rush belt’ period. The mural produces a ‘fantasy’ as a manufacturing district that provided homes and jobs for working-class peoples, now that working-class history has been developed into what makes the neighborhood so "cool." Industrial Light represents the fantasy of "cool" neighbourhood being well known for their craft beers among the present generation-- but it covers over the reality of the loss of jobs, loss of culture, loss of "authenticity." Therefore, the Industrial light :Ortlieb's Brewery glorifies the past as opposed to showing the harshness of the