He started his career making figures of gold miners and a minuteman at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Later, he bought 76 acres of desert to create his masterpieces. Inside the shop is a glass case, and inside the case is a yellowed newspaper clipping of Lucy. He had dreamed of a giant woolly mammoth and saber-tooth tiger to join his dinos. Too bad his dream won't be fulfilled, at least not by him.
Violence begets violence.
Kitsch begets kitsch. Take your kids to see Claude Bell's dinos. Who knows what they'll be building afterwards. For more information on Lucy, click here or here . The design for Lucy was also patented .