I’d heard a preliminary restoration test was recently done on the Hill Street wall north of 11th where Kent Twitchell’s six-story-tall Ed Ruscha Monument mural previously resided before being illegally painted out last summer. So instead of catching the Blue Line at the 7th Sreet station, I detoured down Hill over to the Pico depot and in between went by to find a small patch of Ed’s hand uncovered (lower center/left) and the rest of him kinda sorta visible in silhouette from beneath the cover coat (click to biggify):