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Date Posted: 07:32:07 01/19/03 Sun
Author: --can you imagine that
Subject: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP

Source: ABC NEWS. The Grooviest Lamp on Earth: Paris has the Eiffel Tower, New York has the Empire State Building — and Soap Lake, Wash., may soon have the world's largest lava lamp — a 60-foot, psychedelic blast.
Tourists once flocked to local mineral baths. If only Soap Lake could capture some of the business from nearby Grand Coulee Dam, which draws 1.5 million visitors a year.
Now, civic leaders foresee the proposed giant lamp with an observation deck, where tourists can lunch and meditate over the lamp's oozing red goo.
"We're going to ask Paul Allen for help," says Brent Blake, a local architect who proposed the project, inspired by the molten rock that flowed through Soap Lake 14 million years ago.
Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft Corp., is involved in many charitable efforts in Washington state, but has yet to comment on the lava lamp initiative, which won't come cheap.
"To do this, we have to build a giant glass vessel and nobody knows exactly how much that'll cost. It's never been attempted," Brent says. "That's what makes this totally unique, and it's getting people talking all over the world."

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[> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- No name, 07:34:55 01/19/03 Sun

More whacky than Waco.


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[> [> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- No name, 08:47:40 01/19/03 Sun

Paul G. Allen has six PGA Foundations. The Charitable Foundation's Mission is.....To promote the healthy development of vulnerable populations and strengthen families and communities in the Pacific Northwest. The foundation invests in effective organizations that address significant community needs, reflect best practices, leverage public and private resources, and contribute to lasting social change.


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[> [> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- No name, 09:06:24 01/19/03 Sun

Cyberland has a lot comments going on this lava lamp idea. This one was especially interesting.

Soap Lake, Washington is planning on installing a giant Lava Lamp at the center of their town to attract tourists. It will be an estimated 60 ft high with a max diameter of 18 ft. It will hold approximately 60,000 gallons of liquid including the wax-petroleum-jelly hybrid gloopy stuff. One has to wonder though if some drunkard at 3 AM isn't going to yank out a firearm, whoop it up, and cause the downtown core to be bathed with piping-hot chemical-enriched liquid. Now *that* I would have to see. ;)
Jan 16 2003 | 05:50 PM
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Lava lamps always seem to go stale after a few years. As if the liquid gets dusty and tired, the lamp gets hazy, friends stop looking. I fear the same for this town's giant lamp - fun for a while, but I bet it's going to be a sad little albatross in three years time.


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[> [> [> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- tony, 11:53:30 01/19/03 Sun

(Jan. 14, 03) Another cyber opinion re the giant lava lamp. "What kind of drugs would go with this light?".....See, I've always told you all that lava lamps were a state of mind. It comes naturally to people of Eastern Washington. We are ahead of our time.
Of course, that release of radioactive gases into the atmosphere from Hanford nuclear plant in Eastern Washington might also have something to do with it.


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[> [> [> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- kim schell, 18:32:13 01/19/03 Sun

YOU GOT THE IDEA! A GIANT ALBATROSS WOULD MAKE A GREAT SOAP LAKE ICON. COOL MAN!


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[> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- soopie, 08:32:02 01/19/03 Sun

Last year CBH announced that Brent Blake said, he hopes to seek the co-founder of Microsoft's fiancial support. The article went on to say that Brent Blake and John Glassco's propose lamp will be a structure that will tower over downtown Soap Lake with a maximum height of 68 feet and diameter of 24 feet. Course it was implied that could vary. Kinda like The way they vary the price everytime their asked. The 60ft was 68 ft. The cost was $25 million in October, 2001 and then they begin to fudge. The press has been given a 2 or 3 million figure. I don't know is another phase or rather phrase of the lava lamp mumbo-jumbo.


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[> [> Re: BLAKE WANTS PAUL ALLEN TO HELP PAY FOR THE $25 MILLION DOLLAR LAVA LAMP -- No name, 05:55:46 01/23/03 Thu

re posting. This one is right on target. Subject: RISING POWER COSTS AND HIGH OBJECTS.
"The cost of the proposed lava lamp is sky-high. To keep the getting high theme going, the spendy object should be higher than 60 some feet. Consider how high it would look on top of a higher platform. That proposed to be high building that is now showing up to be under construction on main boulevard soap lake would be a great location. With a little ingenuity & engineering going into the giant lava lamp theme it could even eventually begin to look higher than a kiddie kite with no strings attached and.... The Lord of the Rings will be on hand to preside at the ground breaking ceremony."


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