Technically, it wasn't completed. Construction was stopped because of lack of funding.
The final version was supposed to look like this model:
Posted on 11/02/2014 8:06:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I hope they have more luck at preserving it than they had at the Old Man of the Mountain in NH.
Technically, it wasn't completed. Construction was stopped because of lack of funding.
The final version was supposed to look like this model:
That movie is my favorite Hitchcock. Just as good today as when it was made. Love this line: “That’s funny, that plane’s dustin’ crops where there ain’t no crops.”
I didn’t know about the hall of records. Interesting.
Somewhere I have a docu on it — the sculptor first pitched the idea of the Confed monument at Stone Mountain, joined the Klan, the whole works; he got pissed off about something, quit the Klan, and conceived the Rushmore project. He wanted a museum about the US in that Hall of Records, and including a copy of the Declaration of the Independence, or the Constitution, or both, I forget. Fascinating guy. One of his rock cutters branched out and started that unfinished Crazy Horse monument.
Thanks ES.
Hitch?
:’) I wonder if he worked barefoot?
I wonder if the producers of the National Treasure sequel were aware of that when they decided to place their treasure there.
I’m not sure they were aware of anything but the pager number for their drug dealer when they wrote that sorry-assed script.
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