~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- Giant Soap Lake Lava Lamp

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[> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 18:48:29 11/30/02 Sat

The Giant Lava Lamp Team's application to the State requesting funding for their $25 Million Dollar project was unseated. The application process was found not to be legit. City was not the applicant as application stated. The Lava Lamp Saga is just another of the many good reasons for citizens to monitor your local government to protect the public trust. Buyer beware!

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[> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 19:22:43 11/30/02 Sat

re: giantlavalamp.com. where it is implied that the "maintenance of the (LAVA) structure will be provided by a joint collaboration of the City of Soap Lake and a private foundation called SoLa LaLa,".. appears to be an outright falsehood. No such agreement existed or exists between City and the private project.

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[> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- Chicago2, 22:40:25 11/30/02 Sat

Seattle Times business reporter's saga makes referance to Brent Blake who is the "giant lava lamp" team manager of the motion lamp project, stating Brent has suggested Soap Lake be the future home of the world's largest lava lamp. Article showed a rendering by Braden Blake of the proposed $3 million, 60-foot attraction. Why persist in calling it a LAVA Lamp, which it is not. A saga noone seems to get.

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[> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 22:58:29 11/30/02 Sat

Grant County Journal ran a spread on this too showing a conceptualized rendition of what a 60-foot lava lamp could look like in downtown Soap Lake. Photo illustration by Braden Blake.

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[> [> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 07:27:58 12/01/02 Sun

>On October 14, 02, Grant County Journal ran a spread on this too Lava saga showing Blake's conceptualized configuration of what a 60-foot lava lamp looks like. That article revealed Brent avoids telling how much the thing will cost. "Were pursueing a (dollar) number. We don't want to scare people off before we get going," Blake said in a recent interview. $25 Million Dollars is not hard to forget.

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[> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 23:02:33 11/30/02 Sat

WHERE DID THE 3 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT FIGURE COME FROM? TRY--$25 MILLION!!!!

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[> [> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 07:37:38 12/01/02 Sun

>WHERE DID THE 3 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT FIGURE COME
>FROM? TRY--$25 MILLION!!!! Re: 3 Million vs 25 Million. I would imagine that minor reduction (not to scare people off) came from the same place,lava lamp project talk. In other such extrinsic project talk, as if it was rated a plus, they boldly brag about all the publicity IT brought to Soap Lake. On a scale of one to ten, how is that? Even Gary Condit would agree to take a minus ten for his share. More fantasy vs reality.

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[> [> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 17:26:28 12/01/02 Sun

WHERE DID THE 3 MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT FIGURE COME FROM? Spokesman Review reported on Brent Blake being vague about the cost. (Less than $10 million, but more than $3 million.) Better run that one by us again. $25 MILLION is what your applications reads. News reporters get a mixed version. The general public stands by with mouth gaping. The play-let goes on changing it's colors.

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[> [> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- Lava4now, 03:22:36 12/02/02 Mon

News media still useing 3 million cost factor as late as Monday, November 18, 2002? Blake's Wa-Cert application was dated Oct.01,02, cost says $25 Million. (re Washington Notebook. re Coumbian staff writer, Margaret Ellis. re ..LAVA LAMP TOUTED AS TOURIST DRAW), Monday, November 18, 2002. Article mentions the $3 million, 60-foot lava lamp that is expected to fill the empty storefronts in town.. according to "authorities". Gheez...what AUTHORITIES? And then came the shop-talk by George Sharp, CTED, whose byline is no less disturbing. Sharp indicated, No one else has one of these LAVA icons. George Sharp is tourism-development manager for the state of washington. Sharp spells out his own feelings. .... "one of the keys in marketing is to be there first". HELLO GEORGE! GIANT LAVA? CHICAGO? TRADEMARK? REGISTERED? Whose on first George?
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[> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- No name, 23:22:17 11/30/02 Sat

On October 19, 2002, Linda Ashton of the Associated Press writes, "Blake said he has no cost estimate, but he'd like to have it built in three years." Informs us also of the fact that
Blake is working with the state Office of Community, Trade and Economic Development and that George Sharp from the state office is helping Blake explore the feasibility of and financing options for the project. HOW VERY ODD. NO PROJECT COST ESTIMATE? THE CTED application dated OCTOBER 1, 02 says COST of project is $25 MILLION DOLLARS. Must be a time warp somewhere.

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[> [> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- Hank, 13:56:47 12/01/02 Sun

RE: A Good Read. Don, this lava project does not gell. I see the correlation between lava and our planet earth. Under the earth's surface lies two layers that do not mix. Oil and water do not mix either. Is that any big reason to make the whole planet's history your tiny town's theme. What the H... has the natural formation of the earth got to do with spending or wanting to spend $25 million for a prehistoric bit of psuedo symbolism that won't drawing tourists anymore than chicken feed. Like traveling to Soap Lake to see a chicken play the piano by ear.

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[> Re: ~UNSUNG SAGA OF THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR GIANT LAVA LAMP~ -- Dwight, 10:36:18 12/01/02 Sun

Eli Sanders, Boston Globe correspondent, had some spicy remarks in his article dated 12/1/02. He relayed that Brent Blake has some worries. For starters...like finding someone who can make a 60-foot-tall glass lava lamp and even if he does it won't be bullet proof. Vandelism is another worry along with whether the lava lamp's formula would bubble on such a grand scale? (note: Haggerty who owns the exclusive rights to LAVA LAMP holds the "secret formula.") Blake himself is in question as to if the heating elements will accompodate the 60ft proposed to be the BIGGEST LAVA ever? Where I got the best chuckle was in the remark Blake made about his own project. He claimed the idea was kind of like the yo-yo. You can find the Boston Globe's 12/1/2002 lava lamp article and website on the internet.