The ACLU is deeply involved in this controversial rock location and the case has actually reached the United States Supreme Court.... Sometimes you really gotta wonder about these kinds of cases....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
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The ACLU is deeply involved in this controversial rock location and the case has actually reached the United States Supreme Court.... Sometimes you really gotta wonder about these kinds of cases....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Mark
And surely the ACLU has better things to spend their time and money on?
Is this somewhere near Colorado City, AZ?
A town on the border of two states named after a third has to be some kind of record.
One of the defendants was the National Park Service and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is involved....
The instigating action was accomplished nearly 75 years ago!
If this clue proves insufficient.... I tell all tomorrow morning....
(It's not Wyoming or Arizona...)
Mark
AKA near/on Cima Dome AKA the place where the guy put up a couple of crossed pipes in the 1930s as a WWI memorial?
I'd never heard it referred to as Sunrise Rock before....
Under that painted plywood is the famous Mojave Cross...
"...At issue now is an 8-foot-tall cross in the Mojave National Preserve in Southern California. It was first erected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1934 and has been maintained as a war memorial by the National Park Service.
The American Civil Liberties Union objected to the cross and filed a suit on behalf of Frank Bruno, a Catholic and former Park Service employee. The suit noted that the government had denied a request to have a Buddhist shrine erected near the cross.
Two years ago, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the ACLU and declared the cross an "impermissible governmental endorsement of religion...."
You can read more in this February, 2009 article in the Los Angeles Times.
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I'm guessing that's the new skywalk attraction at the Chicago Skyscrapper that effective today is know as the Willis Tower.
And here's another view... 103 floors up! No extra charge.
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/forum...pictureid=1366
My feet were pretty bad by the time we had waited for more than an hour to get up to the skydeck. Friend got a wheelchair for me, and when he wheeled me onto the ''glass" ...
Talk about vertigo! I almost passed out.
The photo was taken from the skydeck of the Sear's Tower - on its last day by that name.
It's unlikey you can see this view from the new observation platform at the tower in Chicago.... but it is "constructed" for a similar reason...
Where is this? When was it built?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-100.jpg
(photo by Mark Sedenquist)
Where is this?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...9/07/MC338.jpg
Did I miss the answer to the Texaco Station?
If not; I NEED A HINT!!!!
It was built as a tourist attraction -- it never was a Texaco Service Station, it's also a site some of some controversy -- but it's a quiet little war. It's located adjacent to one of the richest gold mining districts in the West.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Mark
Wow!
What a great photo -- I hope you tipped the animal wrangler for arranging that perfect shot!
Mark
Thank you.
Took that picture last week at Mt. Evans. They do know how to pose.
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...in53/MC337.jpg
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...in53/MC359.jpg
I remember my one drive up Mt. Evans; started in Denver and drove straight up... 9,000' elevation gain in a matter of hours.
Parked, opened the door, popped out of the car and almost face-planted in the parking lot. After some heavy breathing I was able to enjoy the view.
Great photo (and good looking goat)!
The narrow but paved road without striping was the giveaway.
Back to the non-Texaco-station... that is one odd-shaped building, I assume the shape is somehow significant?
Amen, that is really a very nice couple of photos!Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
I like the photo, but I'm going to have to identify it now, because the shape of the building has got to mostly be a fantasy in the minds of the builders. This was built as a tourist attraction on the Techatticup Millsite property owned by Tony and Bobbie Werly -- More information here.Quote:
Back to the non-Texaco-station... that is one odd-shaped building, I assume the shape is somehow significant?
Mark
Nelson ? Techatticup Mine and the Eldorado City Mining Camp area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
A guy called Mark Sedenquist wrote an article on the area ;-)
Southwest Dave, yep I think I must have written about that....
Now, the real question is... is this thing real? And if it is, where would you go to see it?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-101.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)
The mining shack in Eldorado Canyon is very photogenic - but didn’t get where it is though.
What is this photo about! Watch towers come to mind. The main tower is not electrical but serves some other purpose. The fan at the top could operate a siren.
On the right path or not?
What? Is this possible???? There's someplace in the USA that Eris doesn't recognize right off? What is the world coming to? Here's a digital satellite image -- if you look just above the label that reads "Tailings" you can see the buildings.... And if you READ my article, you learn a few more things about the area -- including a reference to the mystery items waiting to be viewed in the refrigerator...Quote:
Originally Posted by Eris
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-101.jpg
(photo by Gerald Thurman)
Now, I know you're kidding with us.... As much time as you spent here in the west, I know you've seen hundreds of these things.... None of them as TALL as this one, but smaller ones are used to pump water for lifestock and humans....Quote:
What is this photo about! Watch towers come to mind. The main tower is not electrical but serves some other purpose. The fan at the top could operate a siren.
Mark
Would that be the replica windmill in Littlefield TX?
The original tallest windmill in the United States was finished in 1887 on a nearby ranch. It was built of wood and was 132 feet tall -- and it WAS a working windmill. It collapsed during a windstorm in 1926. This replica was built of steel and is 126 feet tall. It's located in Littlefield, Texas on US-Hwy 84.
Do you know the most recent three names of this location?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-102.jpg
(photo by Mark Sedenquist)
The Nelson area looks a very interesting trip out from Las Vegas – now it is on my radar will hopefully get there. The freezer surprise – being something very very green I suspect it may also be very gory to make the kids pay attention. The mind boggles. The flash flood as recent as 1974 must have been a great shock with all the death and destruction it caused.
Certainly got my wires crossed with the windmill picture - must pay more attention. However, I find it is all good fun.
Windmills – this is what I call a windmill.
http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/s...hoto/wmill.jpg
It's more cool than gory....Quote:
Originally Posted by Eris
Yeah, there are thousands of windmills still in use in the western states -- a land with plentiful wind and limited water.Quote:
Certainly got my wires crossed with the windmill picture - must pay more attention. However, I find it is all good fun.
They function in a similar way!Quote:
Windmills – this is what I call a windmill.
SF has two very old and very beloved windmills at the western edge of Golden Gate Park: built to pump groundwater to irrigate the park.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/GGPWindmills.jpg
Photo: Campaign to Save the Golden Gate Park Windmills
More info: http://www.goldengateparkwindmills.org/info/index.html
P.S. Solvang; yes?
Hint #1: The site of a former Army post...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Like your Golden Gate Park windwill CalOldBlue. And yes your eagle eye is correct with Solvang.
PS> Will now look at recent photo.
This view is almost directly south of the location of post #200 in the "Where in North America is this" -- Section II....
Always wanted to go down that road; maybe next trip.
Zzyzx. AKA Cal State Desert Studies Center. AKA Soda Springs.
Curtis "Doc" Springer was essentially a squatter who spent a small fortune in the mid-1940's fixing up the abandoned army base known as Fort Soda Springs into the heath spa he named Zzyzx Mineral Springs. On this page, we have a photo of the original sign for his resort (long since gone now). The name of the actual road in the photo is the Blvd. of Dreams.... (I always liked that...)
If you stop by the Visitor Center for the Mojave Preserve at the Kelso Train Station -- they have some very cool audio clips from his radio program that he used to promote the wondrous healing properties of the water at Zzyzx.
Shortly after Doc got the place all fixed up, the Federal government started taking action to remove him from the place, (it was a sweetheart of a place to go and R&R) and the improvements looked pretty good to the local Federal employees.... After some questionable due process, he was evicted in 1974 and eventually convicted of some equally questionable food and drug law violations and spent several months in jail. After his release he moved to Las Vegas and died in 1986.
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...osh-Soda-3.jpg
(Here's a photo I took during a aerial reconnaissance flight I commissioned in support of the "Road to Vegas" book project I was working on)
Mark
But there is something kinda of peculiar about this cow.... Have you seen this on your travels?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-103.jpg
(photo by Megan Edwards)....
And I'll even throw in the first hint -- A visual clue that might help (and, no, that is not a working windmill....)
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...-mark-103a.jpg
(Another photo by Megan Edwards)
Don’t like the look of that last cow – doesn’t look as though it produces much milk.
But there is a direct correlation between the first cow and the second cow...
Mark
This is, yet again, near another border crossing of a two western states and that cow is a source of some significant import to this town....
Mark
To stop you milking this any longer, it's on the 373 in Armagosa valley and is said to have been taken from the top of the Holy Cow Brewery in Las Vegas to it's new location, an out of town casino. I am not totally and udderly sure but that could be the Funeral mountains in the background?
Mmm, I am referring to the second photo, not sure about the first cow !
Yep, Southwest Dave, you are correct about the large bovine cow near the windmill. But the cow in the shed is extraordinarily large and I'm not really sure how and why it got that big. Perhaps it was crossbred with a charolais -- but I've never seen a hostein dairy cow this big before. It's larger than most horses....
Mark
Here is a large Friesian in the UK (called Hostein in USA) so they can be big animals.
The trouble is with some journalists they don’t know the difference between a girl and a boy. My grandfather was a dairy farmer so I know if you start putting your hands in the wrong place you can soon become unstuck. The so called cow in the newspaper picture is a boy not a girl - maybe not a complete boy but still boy steer.
And, although not completely clear, my guess is that the hostein in the pen is a boy steer and not a girl cow.
Well; I've got 30 years of photography scattered around my "office" as I try to sort and categorize.
Pending bringing some order from that chaos, here's a more current shot.
What is this, what movie was it in, and why?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryBuilding3.jpg
Photo: Don Casey