Editing Cabazon, California (section)

===Roadside attraction===
[[Cabazon Dinosaurs|Claude Bell's giant dinosaur sculptures]] are icons of roadside America. The site features two sculptures: a 150-ton building in the shape of a larger-than-life-sized ''[[Brontosaurus]]'' (begun in 1964, completed in 1975), and a 100-ton ''[[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' structure (built in 1981).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bigwaste.com/photos/ca/cabazon_dinos/|title=The Cabazon Dinosaurs - The Big Waste of Space Photologue|website=www.bigwaste.com|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref><ref name=AP1970>Associated Press, Cabazon, California. ''Eugene Register-Guard'', April 12, 1970. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19700412&id=zeQQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=POEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4984,2536728 "Cement brontosaurus just beginning: Claude Kenneth Bell and his 'monster'."] Hosted by Google Newspapers. Retrieved on January 2, 2010.</ref> The dinosaurs, nicknamed "Dinny" and "Mr. Rex," respectively, were installed to attract customers to Claude Bell's Wheel Inn Cafe.

Some residents grew up with them along the highway in southern California; others may remember them from various films and videos, notably in ''[[Pee-wee's Big Adventure]].''<ref>{{cite news | first= Starlee | last= Kine | title= In the Belly of the Beast | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/magazine/09funny_humor.html?n=Top/News/Science/Topics/Paleontology | work= The New York Times Magazine | date= October 9, 2005 | access-date=April 11, 2008 }}</ref> Developers purchased the dinosaurs in 2005 from the Bell family for $1.2 million.<ref>{{cite news | first= Ashley | last= Powers | title= Adam, Eve and T. Rex | url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-aug-27-me-dinosaurs27-story.html | work= The Los Angeles Times | date= August 27, 2005 | access-date=April 11, 2008 }}</ref>