The Dinasour Museum thing got me to thinking of an unusual thing people would visit <including my parents
> that was dinasours in a guys backyard....I know..one of those very unusual..however..interestingly enough when I look it up I find on roadside america the following breakdown
Quote:Southington, CT - Three Concrete Dinosaurs
Update on the dinosaurs - construction on the house appears finished and the dinosaurs are back - at least some of them. There's a standing t-rex, a collapsed (and apparently hollow - perhaps they're not concrete after all?) t-rex, and some sort of unidentifiable lizardish monster creature painted black with white skeleton markings. It never used to be there. Long long ago there was also a stegosaurus but it's left nary a trace. [matt baume, 02/24/2001]
Southington, CT - Three Concrete Dinosaurs
In Southington, on the Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, which is also known as Route 322, there are three concrete dinosaurs in the backyard of the house located next to the westbound I-691 exit ramp (exit 4). My recollection is that these dinosaurs started appearing one-by-one in the late 1950s/early 1960s. I remember reading a newspaper account some years ago that mentioned that the dinosaurs were built by the former owner of the house. The dinos are still there nearly 40 years later, although one of them has fallen over and foliage is starting to overgrow all of them. The T-Rex, which I estimate to be 10 to 12 feet tall, is still very impressive! [Stan Horzepa, 06/07/1998]
[RA: May 30, 2001 - Statues are reported gone, with non-prehistoric construction evident. ]
Who knows...maybe they, or remnents of them are still there..however it looks like they may be gone...soooo sad
The Mohave Dessert Phone seems to also have been dismantled, another interestingly unusual place people sought out to visit.
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