Salvation Mountain - Lifelong Creation Of Leonard Knight
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welcome everyone I'm in the desert of
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California at Salvation Mountain
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join me shall you does that include
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me yes then I
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shall the man who created this creation
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used to live inside of these trucks when
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he first came to the desert
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yeah
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Leonard Knight built Salvation Mountain
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with some straw paint and his own two
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hands he had a reason for everything too
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a scripture for the Sea and the boat and
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whole Sea of Galilee see that tree
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symbol he's got going on and that
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waterfall that's his waterfall all those
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are waterfalls that red thing is the
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Tree of
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Life this Mountain's still here out in
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the middle of the California desert Sur
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rounded and covered with Bible
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verses no
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mail Leonard's rules were to stay on the
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yellow brick road just like the sign
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says right there yes the yellow brick
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road it's not really brick it's just
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yellow there could be brick
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underneath this mountain is basically a
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big pile of dirt covered in layers and
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layers of
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paint you can see Leonard's construction
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technique straw and this mud that he
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would call Adobe
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not only is Salvation Mountain
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impressive from the front but also the
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underbelly and these rooms what's inside
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these fantastic rooms
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Salvation
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Mountain whove left their
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IDs people leave their IDs out here
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memories at Salvation Mountain what is
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this what is it carpet for the bottom of
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the flowers a little bit of mud pain
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this is the inside of Salvation Mountain
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into the underbelly and the wonderful
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world of Salvation Mountain look up
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there you can see the hay that the paint
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is glazed over to create the
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mountain this is awesome last time we
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were here he was up on one of those
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ladders way up there tying these
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together so he actually a little old guy
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about this tall I don't know maybe 5
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foot up on the ladder tying all these
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pieces of wood together all by itself
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yep quite a creation said if sometimes
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volunteers would help him but mostly by
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himself oh look here he is there's
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Leonard this is
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incredible look at this
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all on the backside of dirt that's what
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it looks like before the paint what a
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difference some paint can
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make you can see this is where he wanted
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to expand it you can see how he dug away
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up the hill you hay B's lined up yeah he
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was going to keep going that way with
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the mountain but he's fallen ill and
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he's no longer out here get better
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hopefully this place stays out here and
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survives the test of time
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these were his
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waterfalls what's that these were his
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waterfalls you like to talk about these
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were waterfalls everything here had a
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meaning I wish he was here to explain it
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all to us
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I wonder why he left
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out look it as he was painting into it
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it's like a secret Corridor yeah maybe
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for his
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cat yeah it's like a secret little
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Corridor there realize it was
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structurally UN sound added some more
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mud added some more mud clay straw he
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just kept reinforcing going layer by
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layer there was no master plan he just
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layer by layer
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all caved
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in it all caved in right there
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thanks for watching everyone they say
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nothing grows in the desert but they
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were
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wrong they were wrong