The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 42

Eo3 ansrlrtf Mar. 23, 1 970-Pirt II 5j n.w.wwiw i ni). Dinosaur Is Rearing Head Above Desert Continued from First Page "Dinosaur Bell" bought his 62 acres in the narrow pass between snowcapped Mt. San Gorgo-nio, and Mi. San Jacinto for more than 25 years ago.

The past four winters he has driven from Buena Park to Cabazon "batching it" in a small place behind his monster, and working on it about three days a week. Ralph Titus, 41, has worked with him welding tons of steel girders and ribs. The sculptor and Titus are now wrapping the beast in wire to gunite it. "Everything is shaped in wire wrinkles in the neck, muscles in the legs," Bell said. "And it's strong as a battleship, anchored in 10 yards of cement in each leg." Toes are three to four feet long.

A state structural engineer checking the dinosaur for code and safety requirements repdrted six months ago that it "is overbraced. It would take several trucks to pull it over, if indeed it's possible to pull it over." Stairways are intact inside the ribs leading to the main room 12 feet off the ground. "If we make it into a restaurant, we'll be able to accommodate SO diners," Bell said. "The kitchen will bp in the room at the top, or if it's a gift shop, the room at the top will be storage space." Bell has plans for a lake in his gardens, with giant animals appearing to siosh through it "just like prehistoric times." "It's taken so long for this first one because Ralph and I had to make our own special machinerysteel benders, an elevator out of an old truck, stuff like that to get started." Bell said. "From here on it will be smooth sailing.

We'll have our second dinosaur up and finished a year after the first one's completed. "It's going to be a tyran-nosaurus rex. You know, the one that stands upright and has those terrifying dagger- like teeth. "Rex will stand HO feet high." SALE Continued from First Page else gets it. At exactly 9:30, a man from the Disposal Division drops the starting tape.

A woman's bargain basement is a siesta compared to the next few moments. The shoppers charge P.cross the line. A chubby man in blue suit and red tie is bumped from behind by a youth and tumbles tn the asphalt. Another older man goes down, for no apparent reason, ripping the knee of his TRAVEL INTO A NEW ERA 1 WITH DOROTHY GRAY I COSMETICS Dorothy Gray's personable make-up artist, will be Jr--- standing by all this week. flNf trousers, and a half dozen younger men hurdle his body.

i a real "747" iet seat as i MM But there's a lot of laughter and very little malicious shoving and in a minute or two it's all over he applies a iighter-than-air, ft ll" new-as-tcmorrow make-UD. If ll 1 and they stand around with cardboard tags in their hands and try to And, with your Dorothy Gray Vr jEBB purchase of $5 or more, I jm receive as a bonus gift the vUs, 6M TWA Mini-Flight Tote, crammed with beautiful I I ll TfT the new First Class fBIJIMl ll I jf rf' Coral Lipstick! Tmff Ilpfk ZJJ fpJ Cosmetics, Street Floor SS tESTl JTRft RtC I i L. i catch their breath. Cash Only Then they go to a warehouse room nearby where more bargains, smaller items, are spread on tables and shelves, and there's no foot race to fill shopping carts with rolls of gasket material, odd fuel pumps, disabled typewriters, tools, of aircraft lubricant, coffee pots. With these purchases they 'turn in the hard-won tags from the outside lot.

a woman "rings up the sale and the buyer pays cash no checks, and no tax. "Anyone can shop here." said Paul Beard, director of the Disposal Division, "civilian or serviceman. But we're only open once a month, every third Friday of every month, and a man might nave to nm like Jieck to get what he wants." SHOP LLOCK'S DOWNTOWN LATE TONIGHT 'TIL 9:00 TUES. THRU SAT. 10 A.M.

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