Comments on: Giant Rock http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Harley Bootman http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-200251 Harley Bootman Sun, 25 May 2008 15:43:16 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-200251 My father's cousin flew myself, my father, and my brother to the Giant Rock Airport in the 60's, when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. I seem to recall him saying that the military had once hit the rock with an artillery shell, although I don't recall why they may have done this, and him pointing out the slight impact mark made by the projectile. I also remember him pointing out the actual shell casing being used as part of a "decorative" border around some plants or a cactus garden or something near the diner that was there at the time. Anybody know anything about this? Would be very interested to hear from anyone who could verify this. My father’s cousin flew myself, my father, and my brother to the Giant Rock Airport in the 60’s, when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. I seem to recall him saying that the military had once hit the rock with an artillery shell, although I don’t recall why they may have done this, and him pointing out the slight impact mark made by the projectile. I also remember him pointing out the actual shell casing being used as part of a “decorative” border around some plants or a cactus garden or something near the diner that was there at the time. Anybody know anything about this? Would be very interested to hear from anyone who could verify this.

]]> By: chris mighton http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-200161 chris mighton Sun, 18 May 2008 23:43:39 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-200161 It makes me sad when I find that people dont look further than the end of their nose before posting opinions and conclusions lol.....Alex!! :D When it comes to somehow blaming the splitting of the boulder on the room that was under the boulder and that supposedely Van Tassel built the room......it really shows the giant lack of knowledge the original poster has on this subject. The first thing the origniator of this post should have thought about if they knew anything remotely close to the true history of this, is if the boulder splitting was caused by the explosion of dynamite that the cops caused by throwing a smoke bomb to scare out Frank Critzer or whether or not it was due to the activities of the government who repossessed the land and filled in the room with bulldozers after Van Tassel passed away and the lease on the land ran out. Also, if someone really cared about the true history of Van Tassel, The Integratron or Giant Rock, they probably would have at least read the available history that is online before posting. http://integratron.com/2History/History.html Cool post anyways, its always nice to see different people revealing what they've seen. If anyone has any more information on the history of The Integratron and Van Tassel either through relation or through experiences that aren't published, please contact me chrismighton@gmail.com :D Me and a few of my friends are wanting to do a respectull and true documentary regarding Van Tassel and his experiences and influences. It makes me sad when I find that people dont look further than the end of their nose before posting opinions and conclusions lol…..Alex!! :D

When it comes to somehow blaming the splitting of the boulder on the room that was under the boulder and that supposedely Van Tassel built the room……it really shows the giant lack of knowledge the original poster has on this subject. The first thing the origniator of this post should have thought about if they knew anything remotely close to the true history of this, is if the boulder splitting was caused by the explosion of dynamite that the cops caused by throwing a smoke bomb to scare out Frank Critzer or whether or not it was due to the activities of the government who repossessed the land and filled in the room with bulldozers after Van Tassel passed away and the lease on the land ran out.

Also, if someone really cared about the true history of Van Tassel, The Integratron or Giant Rock, they probably would have at least read the available history that is online before posting.
http://integratron.com/2History/History.html
Cool post anyways, its always nice to see different people revealing what they’ve seen.

If anyone has any more information on the history of The Integratron and Van Tassel either through relation or through experiences that aren’t published, please contact me chrismighton@gmail.com
:D
Me and a few of my friends are wanting to do a respectull and true documentary regarding Van Tassel and his experiences and influences.

]]> By: Robert http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-158058 Robert Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:59:25 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-158058 His room was UNDER the rock. The Feds filled it in or blew it up - the vandals! I visited the empty room after Van Tassel no longer lived there. It was about 14 steps down. You can still see where the walkway to the door leads - it has become a fireplace for campers. This is on the opposite side of the rock where the break happened. That was caused by campers building fires under the overhang for many years. His room was UNDER the rock. The Feds filled it in or blew it up - the vandals!

I visited the empty room after Van Tassel no longer lived there. It was about 14 steps down. You can still see where the walkway to the door leads - it has become a fireplace for campers. This is on the opposite side of the rock where the break happened. That was caused by campers building fires under the overhang for many years.

]]> By: A nostalgic old man http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-143630 A nostalgic old man Tue, 22 May 2007 03:38:56 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-143630 Back in my day, rocks were bigger. Back in my day, rocks were bigger.

]]> By: cousin http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-140506 cousin Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:59:34 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-140506 rollingrock would you have lived at the ranch across from the dome ?????? would you be Donna????? rollingrock would you have lived at the ranch across from the dome ??????

would you be Donna?????

]]> By: cousin http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-136342 cousin Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:30:09 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-136342 rollingrock could you e-mail me you might help me find some of my kin carpydawg@yahoo.com thank you the cousin rollingrock could you e-mail me you might help me find some of my kin
carpydawg@yahoo.com thank you
the cousin

]]> By: cousin http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-133211 cousin Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:40:56 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-133211 ye know dan boon was marryed to sandra my cousin they lived at the rock during my child hood ,I was there for the conventions in the 50's I would like to know where I could get the footage from those conventions seeing that I am in some of it history channel has some footage of me but can not find it do not remember the name of the show ,does any one know where I can get this on DVD please post a reply if you know thank you !!!!!! ye know dan boon was marryed to sandra my cousin they lived at the rock during my child hood ,I was there for the conventions in the 50’s I would like to know where I could get the footage from those conventions seeing that I am in some of it history channel has some footage of me but can not find it do not remember the name of the show ,does any one know where I can get this on DVD please post a reply if you know thank you !!!!!!

]]> By: RollingRock http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-114629 RollingRock Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:21:47 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-114629 I Lived near the Dome for all of my high school years, I also went to school with George's grandchildren, Shanghahi Brown pretty much hit the story right on the nose. I work for Mrs. Landers, and knew the Lynn Twinns, as well as many others that were instrumental to the history there. I was fascinated with it. It does sadden me when I see all that has happend anfter thier deaths. I Lived near the Dome for all of my high school years, I also went to school with George’s grandchildren, Shanghahi Brown pretty much hit the story right on the nose. I work for Mrs. Landers, and knew the Lynn Twinns, as well as many others that were instrumental to the history there. I was fascinated with it. It does sadden me when I see all that has happend anfter thier deaths.

]]> By: dragginbonz http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-77276 dragginbonz Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:06:28 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-77276 shanghahi brown is correct.i had the honor of meeting george when i was a kid, and the place was amazing. i was crushed when i found out what people have done to the place after george died. what a waste. shanghahi brown is correct.i had the honor of meeting george when i was a kid, and the place was amazing. i was crushed when i found out what people have done to the place after george died. what a waste.

]]> By: Shanghahi Brown http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/19/giant-rock/#comment-23031 Shanghahi Brown Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:13:39 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=921#comment-23031 Your information on Giant Rock is incredibly erroneous. George Van Tassel did not build the house - which was UNDER the rock, not carved out of it (I've been in it, though the BLM filled it in after George's death in the mid-1970s). A man name Frank Critzer, a prospector of German origins (but an American), built it, and lived out there until WW II, when he was suspected of being a German spy because he had - a radio! Never mind that the radio was a gift from his friends who did the Amos and Andy show, and it could only receive - that was cause enough for one good citizen to drag out the Riverside County Sheriff's Dept. (wrong county). Critzer was suspected of stealing dynamite in connection to his vile terroristic plans (of which there is no evidence), but when the deputies began questioning him, Critzer pointed out that they were in the wrong county, and he went back down into the house. Well, cops being cops, that ticked them off no end, so while the "cop version," states that Critzer had a bomb and blew himself up, those who knew him knew that it was much more likely that the tear gas grenade the cops fired into his house landed in the box of blasting caps and dynamite that Critzer had under his kitchen table. In any event, Critzer got himself blown up. Van Tassel had known Critzer and had visited Giant Rock while he was living there. A few years after the explosive incident, Van Tassel took his family to live under the rock. His wife made apple pies that were good enough for the Hollywood set to fly out to the dry lake bed for, and George fixed planes that needed help. Then came the Venutians, with the technological revelations necessary for George to build his Integratron, a structure designed to rejuvinate cellular structure to keep you young forever. Unfortunately, the Venutians provided no venture capital, and Van Tassel died of old age (or was assassinated by the government) before it was completed (though it stands today and is used for sound baths and tours, etc.). Van Tassel used to host UFO conventions on the dry lake bed next to Giant Rock that drew upwards of 15,000 people. I met him in 1972, and he died shortly thereafter. Landers, by the way, was started by a doctor and his buddies who all got 5-acre plots of land and made a landing strip for their planes there, using the place as a getaway from the city. Goat Mountain is home to several mines, none of which look particularly safe to go down into to explore. Landers is not an incorporated town, it is really just an area, but hardly a ghost town. It is a growing area (the housing boom in Southern California is hitting this area hard). One of the reasons you see scattered homes and cabins about is that the BLM was raffling off 5-acre "jackrabbit" homesteads back in the 1950s and 60s. For $100 you got the land, but you had to build a 400 square foot cabin on it to keep it. Many cabins still stand today. Oh, the Los Padres Mine is too far north to have anything to do with Landers (which didn't exist until the 1950s anyway). But we've got lots of mining activity in the area. Your information on Giant Rock is incredibly erroneous. George Van Tassel did not build the house - which was UNDER the rock, not carved out of it (I’ve been in it, though the BLM filled it in after George’s death in the mid-1970s). A man name Frank Critzer, a prospector of German origins (but an American), built it, and lived out there until WW II, when he was suspected of being a German spy because he had - a radio! Never mind that the radio was a gift from his friends who did the Amos and Andy show, and it could only receive - that was cause enough for one good citizen to drag out the Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. (wrong county). Critzer was suspected of stealing dynamite in connection to his vile terroristic plans (of which there is no evidence), but when the deputies began questioning him, Critzer pointed out that they were in the wrong county, and he went back down into the house.
Well, cops being cops, that ticked them off no end, so while the “cop version,” states that Critzer had a bomb and blew himself up, those who knew him knew that it was much more likely that the tear gas grenade the cops fired into his house landed in the box of blasting caps and dynamite that Critzer had under his kitchen table. In any event, Critzer got himself blown up.
Van Tassel had known Critzer and had visited Giant Rock while he was living there. A few years after the explosive incident, Van Tassel took his family to live under the rock. His wife made apple pies that were good enough for the Hollywood set to fly out to the dry lake bed for, and George fixed planes that needed help.
Then came the Venutians, with the technological revelations necessary for George to build his Integratron, a structure designed to rejuvinate cellular structure to keep you young forever. Unfortunately, the Venutians provided no venture capital, and Van Tassel died of old age (or was assassinated by the government) before it was completed (though it stands today and is used for sound baths and tours, etc.).
Van Tassel used to host UFO conventions on the dry lake bed next to Giant Rock that drew upwards of 15,000 people. I met him in 1972, and he died shortly thereafter.
Landers, by the way, was started by a doctor and his buddies who all got 5-acre plots of land and made a landing strip for their planes there, using the place as a getaway from the city. Goat Mountain is home to several mines, none of which look particularly safe to go down into to explore.
Landers is not an incorporated town, it is really just an area, but hardly a ghost town. It is a growing area (the housing boom in Southern California is hitting this area hard). One of the reasons you see scattered homes and cabins about is that the BLM was raffling off 5-acre “jackrabbit” homesteads back in the 1950s and 60s. For $100 you got the land, but you had to build a 400 square foot cabin on it to keep it. Many cabins still stand today.
Oh, the Los Padres Mine is too far north to have anything to do with Landers (which didn’t exist until the 1950s anyway). But we’ve got lots of mining activity in the area.

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