{"id":1545,"date":"2012-07-18T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:26:04","slug":"twenty-five-unnatural-wonders-of-the-western-roadside-cadillac-ranch-amarillo-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/twenty-five-unnatural-wonders-of-the-western-roadside-cadillac-ranch-amarillo-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-five Unnatural Wonders of the Western Roadside: Cadillac Ranch (Amarillo, Texas)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside interstate 40, formally Route 66, five miles west of Amarillo, ten Cadillac\u2019s were half-buried in the ground, nose down, in 1974.<!--more--> They range from a 1948 fastback coupe with mere bumps for tailfins to a Coupe De Ville for 1959, the year fins reached their maximum height and pointiness. When a group of creative people known as Ant Farm first put them in the ground (in a neat row parallel to the road and at the precise angle of the sides of the Great Pyramids of Cheops), one of the artist called the arrangement \u201ca white trash dream\u201d; the rich man who commissioned then, Stanley Marsh 3, said they represented \u201cthe great escape\u2026 sexual freedom, the freedom to make choices, and the ability to just go.\u201d Over the years, the cars\u2019 rumps which were in good shape when their noses were interred, have been used by passersby as an opportunity to express themselves: in the first few years which simple hearts and maxims scratched by knife into the paint, then with big-bore bullets (looming up in the flat landscape, the fins make a great set of targets), and in the last several years with spray- paint graffiti.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/07\/CadillacRanch_DA_0504__800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1547\" title=\"CadillacRanch_DA_0504__800\" src=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/07\/CadillacRanch_DA_0504__800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/07\/CadillacRanch_DA_0504__800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/07\/CadillacRanch_DA_0504__800-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stern, M. &amp; Stern, J. (1993). <em>Way Out West<\/em>. New York, NY: Harper Collins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside interstate 40, formally Route 66, five miles west of Amarillo, ten Cadillac&rsquo;s were half-buried in the ground, nose down, in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2044,49,26],"tags":[428,427,429],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-travel","category-united-states","tag-amarillo","tag-cadillac-ranch","tag-texas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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