I like the idea.
Maybe a 70 foot bong to sit on the other side of the road?
KREM.com
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:49 PM
SOAP LAKE, Wash. – The effort to build a 60-foot tall lava lamp in Soap Lake is slowly gaining momentum.
The community has raised about $200,000 for the project. It is estimated $1 million will be needed to build the massive display.
The giant lava lamp would sit along Highway 17, which runs through the small Inland Northwest town.
Town leaders hope the display would draw tourists who are on their way to Grand Coulee Dam.
Organizers say a computer and projector would shine images onto the lava lamp. There would be a light show every day at dusk. They also hope to build an eight-story climbing tower attached to the lava lamp.
The project has been in the planning stages for years. The lava lamp is in pieces inside a storage facility, and has been there since 2004. It once sat in the middle of Times Square in New York City
Town leaders have made several attempts to kick-start the project. Construction was supposed to start in 2010, but was delayed because of lack of funding.
Sounds like the lack of forethought is driving this project. A glass vessel filled with various viscosity oils would make a fine target for those just out riding around looking for something to shoot. Rural ares are filled with mailboxes, signs and even buildings with bullet holes. I would not put up such a display even with a catch pond unless I had ample funds to replace a broken vessel and lost contaminated oil every year.
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Along a similar theme with hypnotic overtones, the city of Grand Haven, MI always had a musical fountain show every night during the summer along the banks of the Grand River. It rivals even the one at The Belagio in Vegas. One difference is they use colored lights and create some great effects. And they mix up the music for variety. It really is magnificent.
First time I took ex-wifeys family, my mother in law was amazed. She remarked about the colors all varying as the streams changed heights, movement patterns, and the like.
I couldn't resist to opportunity to inform her that it also was really an expensive thing to impliment and maintain. Not only the design but getting all those differnent tanks of colored water, the timing of the valves & orafices. Not to mention collecting the colored water so it wouldn't pollute the river.
It was at least ten minutes before she smacked me in the shoulder once she realized it was lights, and not colored water. Those wheels must have really been churning all that time to figure that one out.... She never did live that one down..
It lasted for about six years hanging over a Chili's Restaurant at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street and no one shot a hole in it......;-)
