Touring a Legendary Landmark: What's at the Cadillac Ranch?
welcome to the Cadillac Ranch we got up one morning Before Sunrise headed out because the night before and late in the afternoon at Sunset we came by there on the way into Amarillo and it was packed I mean there were people everywhere hardly even a place to park so we decided to skip it because it was too crowded and we thought we got up at uh a crack of dawn get out there there'd be nobody there and uh as you can see as you watch this there were some people but it wasn't super crowded there was a wind advisory in effect it was very very windy the audio for it is almost unusable but at the end I did manage to save some of it using a AI website that I use called l-a-l-a-l-a-i LOL dot a i um and it cleaned it up and removed most of it it's mostly readable uh all the wind noise is gone a couple of words are missing uh sort of garbled or something but for the most part it's not too bad considering it I think the wind was blowing about 40 miles an hour or more over an open field so that's at the far end of the video and uh the very very end uh kind of uh as an add-on bonus you will see the I don't know maybe a mile of the road in front of it on the access road is painted they have not only painted the cars they paint the ground on the way to the cars they painted the road for maybe a mile in front of the cars as the access road they painted the barricade the entire thing and you'll see the road and the barricades at the end if you want to watch that I slowed it down a little bit so you can see it and if you just pause it if you see something you want to read you pause it it's pretty clear so anyway a little history of the Cadillac Ranch I'll give you some info on it it stands along Route 66 West of Amarillo Texas it was invented and built by a bunch of art hippies imported from San Francisco they call themselves The Ant Farm their silent partner was Amarillo billionaire Stanley March III he wanted a piece of public art that would baffle the locals and the hippies came up with a tribute to the evolution of the Cadillac tail fin 10 caddies driven into one of Stanley Marsh III's Fields half buried nose down in the dirt supposedly at the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Giza they faced West in a line from the 1949 Club sedan to the 1963 Sedan DeVille their tail fins held high for all to see on the empty Texas Panhandle that was in 1974. people would stop on the highway walk out to view the cars then deface them or rip off pieces souvenirs Stanley Marsh III and the Ant Farm were tolerant of this public deconstruction of their art although it doomed the tail fins and eventually came to encourage it decades have passed The Cadillacs have now been in the ground as art longer than they were on the road as cars they're stripped to their battered frames splattered and paint explodes barely recognizable as automobiles yep Cadillac Ranch is more popular than ever it's become a ritual site for those who travel the Mother Road Route 66 the smell of spray paint hits you from 100 yards away the sound of voices chattering in French German UK English make this one of the most polygon places between the U.N and Las Vegas and uh one comment here I saw despite its exposed location in an empty field the Cadillac Ranch seems to give its art anarchists a sense of privacy and anonymity like a urinal cell in a men's room individual painters take a stance facing one of the cars then let it fly surrounding visitors keep their distance perhaps less out of courtesy than from a desire to stay clear of the spray cloud of paint the Europeans really seem to enjoy attacking the cars maybe because they've lacked a good graffiti canvas since the toppling of the Berlin Wall tourists are always welcome at the Cadillac Ranch if you bring spray paint make sure to snap some photos because whatever you create at the Cadillac Ranch will probably only last a few hours before it's created over by someone else that's all take care hope you enjoy this little visit I am also going to create a second video that will be a slideshow of some of the images that I took there and I hope you enjoy all this take care and we'll see in the next video bye-bye [Music] when I wake up early in the morning and when I come home at night everything is covered in darkness and the Sun is outside I guess I'm living in the dark days [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you used to tell me you love me so but now you're saying you how to go just like a lightning from a clear sky I wasn't ready to say goodbye [Music] when everything is covered in sadness [Music] [Music] there's no days [Music] thank you better stop moving and feel the music [Music] when you feel the fire just hold on move around get down on the ground you know the reasons why Just Dance Just Dance come on Just Dance [Music] you better believe it you can look at the clouds fly by come on [Music] feel the music get your new Addiction yeah do some dancing don't have to be all that fancy [Music] [Music] Just Dance [Music] [Music] all right and fly a little higher a little higher yeah [Music] you better believe it you can look at the clouds [Music] a little higher [Music] I stand by you in your Fallen when the river is calling I said I love you forever we can't make it together [Music] there's lots of friendly faces all around [Music] stand by you in your Fallen when the river is calling I said I love you forever we can make it together [Music] yeah yeah [Music] when things go wrong it's easy to sing a sad song seems like nothing comes [Music] and it won't be good will soon be strong I'll carry you believe [Music] when the river is calling I said I love you forever we can make it together [Music] smile on your show ER [Music] I wish [Music] [Applause] [Music] when the river is calling I said I love you forever give me getting together [Music] [Applause] all right [Music] thinking for uh really pretty with the paint it's really beautiful and Maria's creating some work of art it goes into my face so almost impossible to paint your name on it anymore and it's very windy today very windy wind warning in effect okay you have to be careful touching them you never know where there's one I cannot yeah sits here but this one waited here yeah they're they're everywhere see if you can find and Rhino this well you can see me a little bit in the i r i h oh there's Maria she's actually there twice but you can't see it and painted up on the top there he is yeah you done yeah all right yeah oh you got this cap we have not even in our coffee last night we came and it was packed with people oh my God about her and uh this morning that would be funny oh my God that's the way of the Cadillac Ranch is somebody put something wrong uh it's carpentry and painting place here and would be amusing it's pretty though you know my favorite part is the wheel the old hubs especially on the other side this one really likes this one this is this one yeah I mean everywhere honey the ground the walls the street everything these uh I like these oh good oh yeah oh yeah they're at the top my handiwork it's like a flower okay what yeah yeah it's windy it's the Cadillac Ranch all right that's all we have uh parked the Callaway Bridge [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just can't stop cause I love you baby [Music] so you might be alive [Music] [Applause] [Music] I can't let you go cause I love you cause I love you yeah there was a time I didn't have romance but after I met you I felt it was my chance well nobody tells me good things about you baby [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I remember [Music] when we used to be here nothing could ever keep us from partying and leaving this romance behind but now you're gone and all I have is all I have is time [Music] think about you cause baby [Music] [Music] supposedly [Music] but sometimes I wonder why after all we're still on my mind [Music] thank you [Music] I'll never forget you baby [Music] I'll never forget you baby [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'll never forget you [Music] again
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