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A
Tour of Claude Bell's Dinosaurs & Museum
50800
Seminole Drive • Cabazon, California |
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
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 Cafe, which opened in 1958.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
A
large billboard for the dinosaurs along Interstate 10.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
Dinny,
the first of the Cabazon dinosaurs, was started in 1964 and created
over a span of eleven years.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
uh
oh...AmericaJR.com's Gloria Rzucidlo is getting eaten by a dinosaur.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
Bell created Dinny out of spare material salvaged from the
construction of nearby Interstate 10 at a cost of $300,000.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
Bell was quoted in 1970 as saying the 45-foot (14 m) high,
150-foot (46 m) long Dinny was "the first dinosaur in history,
so far as I know, to be used as a building."
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