Gentrify me!

Gentrify me!
Originally uploaded by trickhips.

Someone in the Montrose has been hitting up the signal boxes on the corners for about a year now. I pass at least two good ones on my way to work. This one reads, "Gentrify me!" I'm curious about the artist, because your eveyday street kid doesn't know the word "gentrify." Is this a Ricer gone bad? I believe the xeroxed image in this collage is a young Jesse James, if memory of those old Time-Life commercials for the Old West books serves me correctly. Maybe they've been reading Upski? I know I have, even though I look and sound totally white-bread.