The Cabazon Dinosaurs

The Cabazon Dinosaurs
50770 Seminole Drive (off Hwy 10)
Cabazon, California
submitted by “BooinLA”

Boo says:
For Your Roadside Viewing Pleasure: The Cabazon Dinosaurs, as seen in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure!

Actually the dinos predate Pee Wee by a WHOLE bunch of years. I remember the big brontosaurus (named Dinny) from early childhood family treks to Palm Springs.

Spotting the dinosaur in the middle of absolutely NOWHERE was a very exciting event. I even have a vague recollection of the steel-wire frame before it was covered in its concrete skin, which is probably the right timeframe: construction was started in 1964 and went on for eleven years. Now the beasts sit in the middle of a cluster of six or eight buildings, and they’re just a few miles down the road from a major casino. Not quite as remote as they used to be. The second dinosaur, the Rex, was added in the early 80s.

Mo, Boo, and Jen Strike a Pose!

 

>   The Cabazon Dinos at Wikipedia (with history)

>   Cabazon Dinosaurs official site 
(the dinosaurs are now part of a “Creationist Museum” if you’re into that sort of thing)

 

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1. The Cheesehead Dinosaur
2. Dinah The Pink Dinosaur
3. The Last Thunderbeast
4. A “Corny” Roadside Wonder
5. Klamath Paul Bunyan & Babe (revisited)

Tags: BooinLA, Cabazon, California, dinosaur, movie location, Pee Wee

2 Responses to “The Cabazon Dinosaurs”

1. Gunnar says:

   July 21, 2011 at 1:25 pm

   LOVE these! And just to make the place even mor fun, the people who run the gift shop are creationists.

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   • wendyvee says:

     July 21, 2011 at 5:33 pm

     Yep, I alluded to that in the links … if I had done it in the body of the entry I wouldn’t have been able to keep the snide tone out of my writing

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