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  Stanley Marsh 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marsh also appears in documentaries which featured Cadillac Ranch or the city of Amarillo such as "The Plutonium Circus" and "Road Does Not End", a short documentary by a Dallas-based filmmaker about Marsh and the art projects he funded.
Stanley Marsh 3's grandfather, Stanley Marsh, was an oilman who, along with Don Harrington and Lawrence R. Hagy, started a business that developed oil and gas properties in the Texas Panhandle.
While Marsh is the third person in his family named Stanley, he uses the Arabic numeral "3" in place of the traditional Roman numeral "III" ("the third"), as he considers the latter to be pretentious.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Stanley_Marsh_3   (550 words)

  
 Stanley Marsh 3 plans to put more color in the sky
Stanley Marsh 3's "Cadillac Ranch," a pop art automotive Stonehenge erected in a wheat field west of Amarillo, has been a tourst attraction since it was created in 1973.
Marsh said he hopes to erect a series of structures, at least 50 feet high, that he describes as "giant hula hoops on a stem with water running through them."
The rainbows are only the latest Marsh art project to adorn the Panhandle city.
www.texnews.com /1998/texas/marsh0625.html   (372 words)

  
 Stanley Marsh 3: A Texas Revolutionary - Associated Content
Stanley Marsh 3 is the third person in his family named Stanley, but he uses the Arabic numeral 3 in place of the more traditional Roman numeral III after his name (he considers III to be pretentious).
Stanley 3's grandfather, Stanley Marsh, was a legendary Texas oilman along with other tycoons of the day, Don Harrington and Lawrence R. Hagy.
As Stanley 3 is a very proud recovering alcoholic, The Marsh family founded The Wendy and Stanley Marsh 3 Endowed Lectureship in Pharmacology and Neurochemistry of Substance Abuse/Addiction at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/43322/stanley_marsh_3_a_texas_revolutionary.html   (366 words)

  
 Texas Monthly March 1996: Big Feud at Cadillac Ranch
Marsh’s friends insist that Whittenburg was simply using the lawsuit to restore the Whittenburgs to a position of influence in a city that had never appreciated them.
Marsh’s grandfather, the original Stanley Marsh, was a quiet Ohio-born bookkeeper who had come to Amarillo to get in on the oil boom in 1926, the same year that oil was found on the Whittenburg property.
Marsh’s son, Stanley Marsh, Jr., who joined the company in 1946, was gentle and reserved, as lenient with his children as Roy Whittenburg was strict with his.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1996-03-01/feature.php   (1619 words)

  
 Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Millionaire wants two tilt-rotor aircraft
AMARILLO - Eccentric Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 says he's placed an order for the world's first civilian tilt-rotor aircraft, which is designed to fly either vertically like a helicopter or forward like an airplane.
Marsh is best known for burying 10 Cadillacs nose down in a Panhandle wheat field along Interstate 30.
Marsh says the BA-609 would be a great addition to his art collection and a lot of fun.
www.caller2.com /2000/february/26/today/national/768.html   (301 words)

  
 The yellow rose of Texas Independent, The (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Stanley Marsh 3 (not "III", which he says is pretentious) has breathed a sense of fun and mischief into this town.
When told that he was breaking the law (as the USA is a signatory to an international agreement on the conformity of road signs), he decided that this kind of rebellion was fun and had dozens more different signs made and erected seemingly at random by the side of streets all over Amarillo.
Marsh's biggest optical illusion is the Floating Mesa, where a narrow white band has been added just below the top of a big natural mesa (flat- topped mound) to give the impression that the top is floating above the earth.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040410/ai_n12785849   (934 words)

  
 Classic Cadillac Web Site - About Cadillac Ranch
Stanley Marsh 3, a local helium tycoon, provided some place for the cars to rest.
Stanley is a fat-cat Texan with a big ranch in Amarillo, an office on the top floor of the tallest building in the Texas Panhandle, and propensity for pranks and mysterious acts.
Stanley has a giant soft pool table, inspired by Claes Oldenburg, which he hides at various secret locations on his ranch.
www.libertysoftware.be /cml/cadillacranch/ranch/crabtr.htm   (1290 words)

  
 Amarillo, Texas Travel Story Part 3
It seems that Amarillo is the proud beneficiary of the philanthropy of Stanley Marsh 3.
He prefers the number 3 to the Roman numeral III and is the town's eccentric millionaire and patron of the arts.
Marsh 3 also was the designer of the Cadillac Ranch where Cadillacs rest in peace in the fine Amarillo ground, becoming a work of art in itself.
www.thecelebritycafe.com /travel/amarillo_2004_07-3.html   (2137 words)

  
 Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas
The Cadillac Ranch, located along the tatters of historic Route 66, was built in 1974, brainchild of Stanley Marsh 3, the helium millionaire who owns the dusty wheat field where it stands.
Marsh and The Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective, assembled used Cadillacs representing the "Golden Age" of American Automobiles (1949 through 1963).
Sounds like Marsh is just adding an unexpected thrill around a ranch visit, but then we didn't try to steal a sign.
www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/TXAMAcadillac.html   (461 words)

  
 Texas Twisted | Cadillac Ranch
His name is Stanley Marsh 3 — he feels that "III" is too pretentious — and is a driving force in unusual artistic endeavors in the Amarillo area.
In 1973, Marsh invited an artists' collective called Ant Farm to help in the creation of a unique work of art for his ranch.
On May 28 of the following year, by Marsh's generosity and love for the absurd, a legend was born — or buried, however you want to look at it.
www.texastwisted.com /attr/cadillacranch   (654 words)

  
 Tyler Morning Telegraph - AMARILLO'S CADILLAC RANCH WORTH THE DRIVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As the story goes, sometime in 1974 Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh 3, who has a knack for the quirky, wanted to use some of the fortune he amassed from helium to create some public art.
As Amarillo expanded westward, Marsh was forced to dig up the pop culture pyramids and move them a little farther down the road where they remain today.
And while you're in Amarillo you might want to scope out some of Marsh's other public art projects such as the Floating Mesa, a huge natural mesa with a white band painted around the top and his mock street signs that can be found all around town.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=16831138&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=510178&rfi=6   (468 words)

  
 Journal-Day 37 -- Bill and Barbara Windsor go Round America
Stanley Marsh 3 will provide them to anyone who will put them up on their property.
The third stop on the Stanley Marsh 3 Tour was to see various signs he has erected on property around town.
Stanley Marsh 3 provides signs with assorted strange sayings and stories to anyone who will put them up on their property.
www.roundamerica.com /trip/journal/day37.htm   (2877 words)

  
 Quirky Amarillo, Texas
From the Cadillac Ranch, Marsh has moved onto other endeavors including a giant phantom pool table that can only be seen from the air, to huge sculpted legs south of the city, to a plethora of strange signs posted throughout
While Marsh doesn't care if you graffiti the Cadillac Ranch as much as you like, you better not mess with his eccentric signs.
Beyond Cadillac Ranch and the signs, Marsh's eccentric public art vision extends south, to the junction of I-27 and Sundown Lane, where a sculpture of a pair of disembodied legs greets passersby.
www.legendsofamerica.com /TX-CadillacRanch2.html   (769 words)

  
 Amarillo : Attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The grandson of an early Texas oil millionaire, Marsh is also the man behind 200 signs on display at Amarillo homes and businesses.
Beyond Cadillac Ranch and the signs, Marsh's eccentric public art vision extends south, to the junction of I-27 and Sundown Lane, where a sculpture of a pair of disembodied legs greets passerby.
While many are amused by the creations of Stanley Marsh 3, not every Amarillo resident finds them in good taste.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=1723&catID=1723010029   (362 words)

  
 TTUHSC :: School of Pharmacy : Research : The Wendy and Stanley Marsh 3 Endowed Lectureship
The Wendy and Stanley Marsh 3 Endowed Lectureship in Pharmacology and Neurochemistry of Substance Abuse/Addiction is an annual event with speakers of the highest national reputation that address audiences in Amarillo.
This endowment was funded by the Marshes in an effort to give the Texas Tech School of Pharmacy national recognition in the pharmacologic area of substance abuse and the neurochemistry that precipitates this addictive behavior.
Her Laboratory includes molecular biologists, chemists, cell biologists, neuroscientists and psychologists, and physicians working in a coordinated manner to study the molecular, cellular and behavioral neurobiology of addictive diseases and related clinical neurobiology and molecular genetics of the addictions.
www.ttuhsc.edu /sop/research/MarshLectureship.aspx   (1608 words)

  
 Jim Pallas:Senate Piece - ONE OF THE BOYS
This particular clump was the best of a lot specially collected by Stanley Marsh 3 of Amarillo, owner of Antfarm's Cadilac Ranch on U.S. Three, as some acquaintenances refer to Mr.
Marsh, is a first-rate connoisseur of all kinds of bull shit, including political, art and bucolic varieties.
Three represents that the aforementioned "road apple" (his term) came not from a steer or a cow (not that there's anything wrong if it did, mind you), but from a heterosexual bull with whom he was, for a short while, personally acquainted.
www.ylem.org /artists/jpallas/SENATE/JPSEN1BO.HTM   (222 words)

  
 Plutonium Circus (1995)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Stanley Marsh 3 (of Cadillac Ranch fame) sort of steals the show, along with another wealthy Amarillian(?) whose name escapes me (the latter was actually the funniest person in the film, I thought).
I suppose Stanley Marsh 3's antics are not so out-of-place, when one considers how to cope with all that stuff sitting almost underneath a fair-sized city.
I vaguely remember hearing about Stanley Marsh 3's shenanigans landing him in trouble, and the film's release was tied up in the process.
us.imdb.com /Title?0114147   (337 words)

  
 Public Art in Private Places - Tierra Grande (October 2001)
Stanley Marsh 3 (he's the third Stanley Marsh but deems "III" pretentious), creator of Cadillac Ranch (see photo, top right) has placed more than 5,000 yard signs throughout the Amarillo area.
Marsh's ranch was the site of the first sign — "Road Does Not End." Another early sign was a picture of Marilyn Monroe; it is on Monroe Street.
Two survey respondents said that they have signs in their yards; one said his 13-year-old son called Marsh to request the sign.
recenter.tamu.edu /Tgrande/vol8-4/1523.html   (841 words)

  
 LONESTAR ROLLERGIRLS - RHINESTONE COWGIRLS
But then she read all of Tom Robbins’ books, which explained everything, and she concluded that if she wanted any peace at all, she’d have to keep her fun shielded from the eyes of the righteous, at least for as long as she still resided in Lubbock.
Betty jaunted north to Amarillo to paint signs for Stanley Marsh 3 (it's 3, not III, mind you) and pull weeds out of his Smithson piece Amarillo Ramp.
Life with Marsh was actually too much like a Robbins novel and she soon let Lubbock, the navel of the universe (at least according to the little green men who visited her uncle’s back field), drag her back by its otherworldly magnetic power.
www.txrd.com /rhinestonecowgirls/BettyTaRoll.htm   (570 words)

  
 Travels with Bud: Amarillo Texas, USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It is a work of art created by the Ant Farm, some San Francisco designers, and Stanley Marsh 3.
Marsh 3 built the world's largest soft pool table on a farm outside Amarillo.
Marsh told the Ant Farm he had some land he wanted to build something cool on and asked them to look at it.
mysite.verizon.net /vze4rj8j/TOURISTBUD/ranch.htm   (198 words)

  
 South Park Studios: BBS: View topic - Stanley Marsh: And the Stoned Philosopher.
Stanley now had changed his name to Stan.
I'm Stanley Marsh, the born loser." Stan laughed.
The hills were as green as the sea, and as tall as the clouds.
www.southparkstudios.com /fans/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=531654   (1477 words)

  
 Tales from the West Texas Dust
The Amarillo Globe-News recently reported that the organization Mothers Opposed to the Mistreatment of Minors, Inc., an organization led by Ann Whittenburg, has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission to request that the FCC deny Stanley Marsh 3,.
owner of Marsh Media and the creator of the "Cadillac Ranch" west of Amarillo, his request for the renewal of his license to operate ABC affiliate KVII-TV.
A study by UT-Pan American University says that Texas' 43-county border region is one of the poorest and least-educated areas in the nation.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/texas_culture/9338/2   (415 words)

  
 Doug Michels Tribute: The Media
The 10 cars in the Cadillac Ranch west of Amarillo lost their graffiti and were painted fl Sunday to honor Doug Michels, the site's architect and artist, who died June 12.
Michels was a founding member of Ant Farm, a radical art and design collective that designed and installed the landmark in 1974 for Amarillo businessman and art patron Stanley Marsh 3.
Marsh, who remained good friends with Michels, said he consulted with Michels' parents and former members of Ant Farm before deciding to paint the Cadillacs fl.
www.brainwavechick.com /dougmichels/HoustonChronicle.html   (202 words)

  
 Classic Cadillac Web Site - 1959 Coupe de Ville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Stanley Marsh 3 assisted by Hugh Russell bought a brown four-door sedan de ville with a "square top" as the first purchase towards the construction of Cadillac Ranch.
Stanley doesn't drive, but the shot called for him to get in the car and drive off.
He did this on a hill, and the car rolled all the way down the slope and into a pond, where it sank with the tail fins sticking out of the water as Stanley crawled out.
www.libertysoftware.be /cml/cadillacranch/ranchcars/59cr.htm   (337 words)

  
 Drive 66 (Central): Old Route 66 Association of Texas
Amarillo is also ground zero to the Dynamite Museum, sponsored by fun-loving local millionaire Stanley Marsh 3.
Folks who like their fun closer to the fender will want to visit Stanley Marsh's Cadillac Ranch west of town.
On July 3, 1908, Chicago clothing king and real estate baron William Henry Bush dedicated land for a new townsite straddling the railroad between Amarillo and Wildorado.
www.mockturtlepress.com /texas/drive66central.html   (1070 words)

  
 Cadillac Ranch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was originally located in a wheat field, but in 1997 the installation was moved two miles to the west, to a cow pasture along Interstate 40, in order to place it further from the limits of the growing city.
Both sites belonged to the local millionaire Stanley Marsh 3, a supporter of the project.
Cadillac Ranch is visible from the highway, and though it is located on private land, visiting it (by driving along a frontage road and entering the pasture by walking through an unlocked gate) is tacitly encouraged.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cadillac_Ranch   (376 words)

  
 Get Out! Amarillo's Entertainment Guide :: Stanley Adds 'Star' To Résumé
Prankster, art lover and Amarillo resident Stanley Marsh 3 can add another title to his eclectic rÈsumÈ -he's now a movie star.
Marsh and his work." While researching the town's attractions, he kept seeing more and more of Marsh's unique projects, Kent said.
Marsh has been labeled eccentric, a title that doesn't bother him, or if it did he's gotten used to it, he said.
getout.amarillo.com /content/getout/060206_marsh.shtml   (744 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Stanley Marsh": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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www.amazon.com /phrase/Stanley-Marsh   (612 words)

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