The Crazy Horse Memorial

Diwundrin

Diwundrin

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Phil's post reminded me of this, and of you all know how I hate to hijack a thread... ahem... so



Has anyone seen this in S.Dakota? My Uncle was just full of talk about it last time he was over there and it looks to be another great landmark in the making. He knew he'd never live to see it finished, maybe none of us will, but just watching it happen would be a great thing to do.

http://crazyhorsememorial.org/about-us/carving-the-mountain/

Artist's impression of it when finished.

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This is far as it's progressed.

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That's beautiful, and I didn't even know of its existence - thanks to an Australian for teaching me about American history. ;)

The artist's conception and the actual site look out of kilter - as if they don't have enough mountain to carve it the way they visualize it - but I'm sure that's just my own poor perception.

This is something I'd make an effort to see if I were ever in the Black Hills. Thanks for the post, Di.
 
You're welcome but honestly? You hadn't heard of it? I remember a report about it on some newsy show here about a year or two ago, about 20 minutes or so, very impressive. What about that face? Is that a great face or what? Very smart doing that first too, keeps the tourist interest and money rolling in.
 
Honestly. My world extends only to my outstretched fingers, so unless I happen to see a news article on something like this I remain blissfully ignorant.

Since we're on the topic of news - did we ever get that statue from France that they were promising us? The woman holding a lamp or something?
 
But the new fish come by the thousands every week ... strolling along the boulevards of broken dreams ...
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The uncle (not the 'cats' one) was just smitten with Vegas. Always spent a week or two there every year. Never gambled just went for the shows and the buzz. (and the accommodation was actually cheaper staying in a casino for a week than in up market motels) He used to go backstage whenever he could manage to meet the 'old' stars. He was quite a character himself, larger than life and full of bullsh*t and he just in fit there perfectly.
His name was Les and he used to introduce himself "Les, Les Vegas." He loved it that people were too polite to question that.
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You'd have liked him Phil, he had the tongue in cheek market cornered. He got more fun out of life than any 80+ man I ever knew. He never tired of it, there was always something new he hadn't tried yet. Of all the American friends he gathered over the years he'd seen more of the US than any one of them. Each year he and his wife would hire a car and criss-cross the Country doing a different section each year and staying a while anywhere that interested them, never toured to a schedule. Which is how he 'stumbled' on the Crazy Horse project.

It was pointless to ask him anything about OZ though. If it wasn't in Sydney or the Hunter Valley odds on he'd never been there. He worked his butt off here to go spend it in America. He was born in the wrong place. Too quiet down here, he loved the sparkles and the razzmatazz and the US was his own vast Disneyland. You have no idea how much I miss him and the stories.
 
Les Vegas, International Man of Mystery! Yeah, I can see he was a character, bless his soul.

We need more characters in the world and less of the plain vanilla types. Good characters, though, like your uncle - not bad characters like, oh, name a politician ...
 
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