Fremont Apatosaurus Mom and Baby
Posted by: CAche MARU
N 47° 39.026 W 122° 21.293
10T E 548446 N 5277650
"For sale to a good home: 66-foot-long used dinosaur. Weighs five tons. Requires constant water, electricity and 7000 ivy plants. Price: $1."
Waymark Code: WM161Z
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 01/27/2007
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In 1998, word came down that the Seattle Center was looking to find a home for the Center’s Topiary Dinosaurs. They were in the way of remodeling and had become a sport for midnight pranksters. The late Josh Logan and John Hegeman, of Sunday Market fame, were listening— as were Montlake Elementary, Caveman Kitchens in Kent, and the Mapleleaf Community Council. Logan and Hegeman recruited Theresa Callahan to write a request to the city to acquire the Dinosaurs for Fremont.
On the strength of her proposal, and with support from the Fremont Arts Council, the Fremont Chamber, Fremont Dock Co, and Quadrant, ARF (the Artists Republic of Fremont) was selected to be able to purchase the Topiary Dinosaurs— for one measly dollar. Provided, however, that the Dinos had to be moved in TWO DAYS. That was the catch, the challenge. Mother and Baby Apatosaurus, all five welded-steel tons of them, were successfully moved and installed, and on time. GLY Construction, Ballard Transfer, Emerald City Glass Design, Fremont Arts Council members, and the Fremont Dock Co— all lent assistance and thereby won forever the proud title of “Dinosaur Wranglers.” Fred Meyer donated $1,000 to the project, thereby winning the proud title of Fred Meyer. Salmon Bay donated water, cement, and a full truckload of foundation concrete, which was duly poured after property, insurance, and site issues were raised, saluted, lowered, and resolved.
Baby Apatosaurus— not surprisingly named Dino— made his Fremont début as the centerpiece of the “Fred Flintstone Ensemble” in the Tenth Annual Summer Solstice Parade, in 1998. Theresa Callahan, fetchingly attired in hides, rode astride Dino. Mother and child now graze peacefully and permanently at the southwest corner of North 34th Street and Phinney Avenue North, here in a leafy little corner of the late Pleistocene.
Visit Instructions:
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