Stegosaurus - Fountain - Santa Monica, California, USA.
N 34° 00.878 W 118° 29.693
11S E 361968 N 3764785
There are four prehistoric Dinosaur's fountains in 3rd Street - The Stegosaurus featured in this listing is opposite the Broadway Cineplex on the 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California.
Waymark Code: WMN6MD
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/05/2015
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The hybrid Stegosaurus Dinosaur sculpture has a bronze head mask, and fins. The Dinosaur also serves as a fountain, with water spouting from its mouth into a pool.
Dedicated in 1989, by sculptors Claude and Francois Lalanne.
Text from the plaque: "Commissioned by the City of Santa Monica Percent for Art Program with contributions from the J. H. Snyder Company, the Miller, Klutznick, Davis, Grey Company, and the Janss Corporation. A project of the Santa Monica Arts Commission."
"Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade is guarded at each end by topiary dinosaurs. They seem compatible with the feathery trees and palms along the street. Each installation is flanked by planters containing horsetails (phylum Sphenophyta), a primitive reedlike plant that, unlike the dinosaurs, survived the Cretaceous mass extinction. In fact it survived the Permian mass extinction before that, the worst on record. Its simplicity has served the horsetail well." Text Source: (
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Location:
3rd St Promenade, (Broadway Cineplex) Santa Monica, California, USA.