  We report on centimeter VLA and VLBI observations of the giant, low power
radio galaxy 1144+35. These observations are sensitive to structures on scales
from less than 1 parsec to greater than 1 megaparsec. Diffuse steep spectrum
lobes on the megaparsec scale are consistent with an age of $\sim$ 10$^8$
years. On the parsec scale, a complex jet component is seen to move away from
the center of activity with an apparent velocity 2.7 h$^{-1}_{50}$ c. It shows
a central spine -- shear layer morphology. A faint parsec scale counterjet is
detected and an intrinsic jet velocity of 0.95 c and angle to the line of sight
of 25$^\circ$ are derived, consistent with an intrinsically symmetric ejection.
The central spine in the parsec scale jet is expected to move at a higher
velocity and a Lorentz factor $\gamma$ $\sim$ 15 has been estimated near the
core.The age of this inner VLBI structure is $\sim$ 300 years. Assuming a
constant angle to the line-of-sight, the jet velocity is found to decrease from
0.95 c at 20 mas (32 pc on the plane of the sky) to 0.02 c at 15 arcsec (24 kpc
on the plane of the sky). These findings lend credence to the claim that (1)
even the jets of low power radio galaxies start out relativistic; and (2) these
jets are decelerated to subrelativistic velocities by the time they reach
kiloparsec scales.
