"Where in North America?" --- Section IV

[Mark Sedenquist]

The location of this outcropping is very near the borders of two western states -- but one of them is NOT Wyoming... sorry. This photo was taken in Spring, 2005 -- the source of this controversy is back in the news this month....
Mark

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....

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

And surely the ACLU has better things to spend their time and money on?

[Kestrel]

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.

[Mark Sedenquist]

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

[CalOldBlue]

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?

[Mark Sedenquist]

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.

mark

[Lifemagician]

[Midwest Michael]

I'm guessing that's the new skywalk attraction at the Chicago Skyscrapper that effective today is know as the Willis Tower.

[Lifemagician]

And here's another view... 103 floors up! No extra charge.



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.

[Mark Sedenquist]

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?

(photo by Mark Sedenquist)