You Can Pet Dinosaurs

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This is the front entrance of the original 1913 building of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Leslie works managing in the basement of this building which is now being refurbished to its former glory. This entrance looks out on the rose garden at Exposition Park.

Last Saturday, in the nearly impenetrable bowels of another part of the museum, she gave Knowing attendance might be slim she accepted my offer to attend. Great talk. She’s giving another one on April 19th.

Afterwards we were standing in the museum’s rotunda - a noisy impressive domed stone-walled space filled with little screaming children and skeletons of the iconic T-Rex/Stegasaurus prize fight. There’s a sculpture of a similar scene outside the museum.

At one point, standing there in the tumult, I turned around to see what appeared to be I did the obvious thing - I whipped the point-and-shoot out of my pocket, pointed it and shot some video.

I’ve cobbled the video bits into this 2 minute, 16 second piece. There’s no music, so if you hate my compositions watch without fear.

Leslie couldn’t tell me too much about these critters. She did know that they were developed at a museum in New Zealand at great expense. I was very impressed with them. I can’t find anything on the NHMLAC website about the dinos but it does have this section about Leslie’s marine worm collection.

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