When Palmetto High’s old gym was demolished in 1997, a piece of Raymond Klein Jr. went with it.
There was an 8-foot by 5-foot mural of a tiger, the iconic school mascot, on the gym’s east wall and he had painted it his senior year.
“Everybody in the gym could see it,” said Klein, 84, a member of PHS’s first graduating class in 1959. “It tore me up when they tore it down.”…