Mount Rushmore
About Mount Rushmore
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, named it the Shrine of Democracy, and oversaw the execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son, Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features 60-foot-tall (18 m) depictions of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, respectively chosen to represent the nation's foundation, expansion, development, and preservation. Mount Rushmore attracts more than two million visitors annually to the memorial park which covers 1,278 acres. The mountain's elevation is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.
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90% of it was done with dynamite, Mount Rushmore. They got to within four inches of the final thing just using dynamite and then they had to do the chipping.
from No Such Thing As A Helium Filled Pufferfish, 2017-02-03 at 00:06:48 · read transcript
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It almost didn't matter if you were able to be to use a drill. One of the guys, his name's Nick Clifford, he's the last construction worker on Mount Rushmore, who's still alive. You can meet him in the summers. If you're this year, 2017 in the summer, he's 95 years old at the moment, go to Mount Rushmore. He sits there and he gives tours. He explains what's going on, how they built it.
No Such Thing As A Helium Filled Pufferfish, 2017-02-03 · listen
They don't even point out the mountain to you. They're a bit embarrassed that that's the focus point. Have they recovered it with those flags? Originally, it was not going to be any presidents on Mount Rushmore. It was just going to be a mountain. No. That's how God intended it. The original plan before they got Borglum on board was to have sort of figures from the American West.
150: No Such Thing As A Helium Filled Pufferfish, 2017-02-03 · listen
He yelled, my God, howdy, you've killed me and then he had to start passing air and he passed quite a lot of blood with it. If you're listening and you have access to high pressure air hoses, do not try this at home. No fatalities of any of the workers on Mount Rushmore, despite all the weird pranks that they would play on each other. When did he say it was finished? 1941 is when they ran out of funding.
150: No Such Thing As A Helium Filled Pufferfish, 2017-02-03 · listen
Had to start passing air and he passed quite a lot of blood with it if you're listening and who have access to high pressure air hoses do not try this at home but no fatalities of any of the workers on Mount Rushmore despite all the weird pranks that they would play on each other.
No Such Thing As A Helium Filled Pufferfish, 2017-02-03 · listen
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