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Cabazon Dinosaurs
Cabazon Dinosaurs, also referred to as Claude Bell's Dinosaurs, are enormous, sculptured roadside attractions located in Cabazon, California, and visible to the immediate north of Interstate 10. The site features Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-ton building shaped like a larger-than-life-sized ''Brontosaurus'', and Mr. Rex, a 100-ton ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' structure. Dinny (pronounced "Dine-ee") and Mr. Rex are at the Cabazon exit of Interstate 10 in California, a short distance west of Palm Springs behind the permanently closed〔http://www.kesq.com/news/landmark-wheel-inn-restaurant-closes-at-cabazon-dinosaurs/22203686〕 Wheel Inn Restaurant on Seminole Drive in San Gorgonio Pass.
==History==
The creation of the Cabazon dinosaurs began in the 1960s by Knott's Berry Farm sculptor and portrait artist Claude K. Bell (1897–1988) to attract customers to his Wheel Inn Restaurant, which opened in 1958 and closed in 2013. Dinny, the first of the Cabazon dinosaurs, was started in 1964 and created over a span of eleven years. Bell created Dinny out of spare material salvaged from the construction of nearby Interstate 10 at a cost of $300,000.〔''Valley Legends'' (4/26/1999), Desert Sun.〕 The biomorphic building that was to become Dinny was first erected as steel framework over which an expanded metal grid was formed in the shape of a dinosaur.〔Feuerstein, Günther. (''Biomorphic architecture: Menschen- und Tiergestalten in der Architektur, Volume 1'' ), p. 117. Edition Axel Menges, 2002. ISBN 3-930698-87-0〕 All of it was then covered with coats of shotcrete (spray concrete). Bell was quoted in 1970 as saying the high, long Dinny was "the first dinosaur in history, so far as I know, to be used as a building."〔 His original vision for Dinny was for the dinosaur's eyes to glow and mouth to spit fire at night, predicting, "It'll scare the dickens out of a lot of people driving up over the pass."〔Associated Press, Cabazon, California. ''Eugene Register-Guard'', April 12, 1970. ("Cement brontosaurus just beginning: Claude Kenneth Bell and his 'monster'." ) Hosted by Google Newspapers. Retrieved on January 2, 2010.〕 These two features, however, were not added. With the help of ironworker Gerald Hufstetler, Bell worked on the project independently; no construction companies or contractors were involved in the fabrication. The task of painting Dinny was completed by a friend of Bell's in exchange for one dollar and a case of Dr Pepper.
A second dinosaur, Mr. Rex, was constructed near Dinny in 1981. Originally, a giant slide was installed in Rex's tail; it was later filled in with concrete making the slide unusable. A third woolly mammoth sculpture and a prehistoric garden were drafted, but never completed due to Bell's death in 1988.〔''Bet you didn't know'' (11/9/2005), Desert Sun.〕
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