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Crazy Horse
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:20 am
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:20 am
Will this thing ever be realized? It's been 75 years since the beginning of this project.
My Dad said it took 40 years just to get an outline of a face and an arm. He saw it in 1965 and 1992 and looked pretty much the same. The face was still not completed.
It took 40 years to get that face.
Why can't the Government national antiquities, public works, forest service, park service, whatever, just step in and finish this damn thing.
Mount Rushmore took 14 years with government backing. Total to finish the entire thing. And that was a lot of faces.
This thing is going on 80 years.
But so much other crap out there gets tons of government funding.
What happened to America's Best Idea?
My Dad said it took 40 years just to get an outline of a face and an arm. He saw it in 1965 and 1992 and looked pretty much the same. The face was still not completed.
It took 40 years to get that face.
Why can't the Government national antiquities, public works, forest service, park service, whatever, just step in and finish this damn thing.
Mount Rushmore took 14 years with government backing. Total to finish the entire thing. And that was a lot of faces.
This thing is going on 80 years.
But so much other crap out there gets tons of government funding.
What happened to America's Best Idea?
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:23 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Lol, thought this was another Warren thread..
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:27 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Looks finished to me.. Call it a wrap, let's go get some firewater.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:28 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Perhaps the Indians can pay for it themselves with a casino tax. 
As an American taxpayer I'm not really all that enthusiastic about paying to finish the project.
As an American taxpayer I'm not really all that enthusiastic about paying to finish the project.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:28 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It looks exactly the same as when I visited there 13 years ago. It's nothing but a money laundering operation for the Indians.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:29 am to upgrayedd
Is there a Pokémon character where the horse head would be?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:31 am to CamdenTiger
quote:
Lol, thought this was another Warren thread..
No. The title of that thread would be Insane Squaw.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:31 am to CamdenTiger
I guarantee that this monument won't be completed within the next 50 years.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:32 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Exactly, this is what happens with government bureaucracy every freaking...wait... What? You want the government to do what?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 12:34 am to PepeSilvia
quote:
Exactly, this is what happens with government bureaucracy every freaking...wait... What? You want the government to do what?
I bet this would have been accomplished a lot quicker had it been the initiative of a rich philanthropist ;)
Posted on 7/18/17 at 1:04 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It's an insanely large project and is opposed by some modern Indian activists.
I visited as a youngster in the early 90's an have no expectation of seeing it completed in my lifetime.
I visited as a youngster in the early 90's an have no expectation of seeing it completed in my lifetime.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 1:30 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It amounts to taxpayer funded graffiti. The Indians, especially, should hate this project because it defaces the land. Commission a Crazy Horse statue (with private funds) if you must, and put it someplace practical, but leave the mountains alone.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:37 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:
Why can't the Government just step in and finish this damn thing.
No, no. We can't have the government building monuments to people who fought our great nation.......
Posted on 7/18/17 at 3:13 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I thought this project was privately funded.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 5:01 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Thought you were talking about another Crazy Horse...
Posted on 7/18/17 at 5:02 am to chity
quote:
I thought this project was privately funded.
It is.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 5:04 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
They should have brought in a "deal maker" to get the job done.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 5:43 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:Pretty disheartening if that's the best we got...
What happened to America's Best Idea?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 5:55 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
looks the same as 15 years ago
I think I remember them having a nice welcome center or clubhouse or whatever it was
I think I remember them having a nice welcome center or clubhouse or whatever it was
Posted on 7/18/17 at 6:07 am to gthog61
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