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Tour of Claude Bell's Dinosaurs & Museum
50800
Seminole Drive • Cabazon, California |
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
A
third woolly mammoth sculpture and a prehistoric garden were drafted,
but never completed due to Bell's death in 1988.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
Following
the sale of the property by Bell's surviving family in the mid-1990s,
Cabazon Family Partnership and MKA Cabazon Partnership of Costa
Mesa, California became the new owners of the roadside attraction.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
The
current ownership has expressed a Young Earth creationist belief
that most dinosaurs were created on Earth about 6,000 years ago
– the same day as Adam and Eve.
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BY GLORIA RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
In
stark contrast to that belief are Bell's painted frescoes and
sculptures inside Dinny, depicting a naturalist and evolutionary
viewpoint.
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BY GLORIA RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
AmericaJR.com's Jerome and Jason Rzucidlo stand next to
the Robotic Dinosaurs sign.
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BY JASON RZUCIDLO / ©AMERICAJR.com
The popular 1985 comedy film Pee Wee's Big Adventure
filmed several scenes around the dinosaurs.
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