[HN Gopher] Cadillac Ranch ___________________________________________________________________ Cadillac Ranch Author : prismatic Score : 19 points Date : 2023-03-24 03:40 UTC (19 hours ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | toddm wrote: | Required watching for context is The Plutonium Circus: | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114147/ | cjtrowbridge wrote: | It's so cute. One of my favorite parts of driving the 40. | sargun wrote: | This kind of reminds me of "The Lightning Field": | https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/walte... | CWuestefeld wrote: | I visited a few years back. Knowing that this is on private land, | that the owner graciously allows people to visit, I was saddened. | So many people come to look at the exhibit, and then throw their | paint cans and other trash all around. | solomonb wrote: | That is a bummer. I love that people actively repaint it but I | wish they wouldn't dump their trash on site. | mortenjorck wrote: | I'm glad it has fared better than Chicagoland's Spindle | (1989-2008). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_%28sculpture%29 | | The desert is probably a better place for automobile-sculpture | than the temperate Midwest, but it's still a shame the Spindle | was never able to find a new home. | dylan604 wrote: | When visiting, I highly advise doing so when it is dry. As the | pictures show, it is solid dirt, so after it rains it is a mud | pit. | macinjosh wrote: | Reminds me of CarHenge https://carhenge.com/ | asciimov wrote: | If you're near it, go see it, just to say you did. Then do | yourself a favor, go have lunch at The Big Texan Steakhouse, to | admire the 72oz steaks. | | That said, not sure why you were out there to begin with. Maybe | you were out admiring the sights in Bushland? | ojbyrne wrote: | It's right next to I-40, so if you happen to be driving from | the east coast to the west coast on that highway (as I once | did), it's hard to miss. | dylan604 wrote: | You only told part of the story of the 72oz steak. Yes, it's | 72oz (4.5 lbs) of beef, but if you eat it in the time limit, | you get it for free. Your average burger is 1/3lb, so that's | 13.5 burgers in one sitting. | | Some people aren't so elitist that thinking they are in some | part of the country not left or right coast would think this is | just something that happens in their part of the world. | toddm wrote: | You have to eat the whole meal (inclusive of the shrimp | cocktail, salad, baked potato, and dinner roll) without | getting up and without throwing up in the allotted hour. | | The no-throwing up rule was instituted some time ago because | passers-by (mostly long-haul truckers at the time) would | essentially dine for free irrespective of whether or not they | completed the challenge. You are also on the hook for the | $72, which was not the case back in the day. | | See https://www.bigtexan.com/72-oz-steak/ for current rules | and regulations. | toddm wrote: | You could be visiting beautiful Palo Duro Canyon State Park, or | passing through as others have mentioned. | | You could, like I was many years ago, be doing field work at | Pantex as part of your Master's thesis. | | The people in the Texas Panhandle and Amarillo in particular | are, in my experience, just as nice and welcoming as anyone | else - present OP excluded, of course. | tomthorns wrote: | Any ex Accenture people here click this expecting something | different? | spydum wrote: | There was (maybe still is) a smaller similar setup of Airstream | RVs (those shiny metal exterior RVs) on the south side of | Interstate 4 just outside of Tampa. Some people thought it was | trashy, I thought it was cool looking | asdflkjvalkj wrote: | Airstream ranch was torn down in 2017. | starkparker wrote: | Marsh died two years after allegations of sexually abusing | teenagers. Police arrested him, raided his offices, and | publicized evidence. He settled lawsuits with the accusers out of | court in 2013 but was still indicted on 14 counts of sexual | performance, assault, or indecency with children.[1][2][3][4][5] | The charges were dropped only with Marsh's death prior to a trial | date.[6] The accusations followed other publicly known sexual | misconduct accusations and charges in 2001, 1998, and 1996.[4] | Following his death, his survivors were also accused of sex | trafficking.[7] Several businesses associated with Marsh's office | settled suits with accusers in 2015.[8] | | 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/us/stanley-marsh- | cadillac... | | 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/us/millionaire-stanley- | ma... | | 3: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/arts/design/stanley- | marsh... | | 4: | https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/crime/2013/04/11/million... | | 5: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/darkness-on-the- | plains... | | 6: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2014/06/19/stanley- | mars... | | 7: | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2015/10/09/la... | | 8: | https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/crime/2015/04/07/chase-t... | | cf. Marsh 3's feud over the Ranch with the Whittenbergs, another | eccentric oil-rich family: https://www.texasmonthly.com/true- | crime/big-feud-at-cadillac... | | Marsh left the Ranch land to a trust unaffected by the lawsuits: | https://www.petersen.org/blog/cadillac-ranch ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-03-24 23:00 UTC)