[JDUB]

promises promises i would take one, but i;m in nc for the week

[El Scorcho]

I'll get it done tomorrow. Promise.

[Cider Jim]

From the Wal-Mart parking lot, the white LU monogram appears to take up the entire mountain side.

[krh44]

Any idea how much money was wasted on this?

[El Scorcho]

Does it really matter? You obviously already have your opinion.

[Ed Dantes]

I've noticed that this board is KING of saying something looks funny, then has 10 or 20 posts saying "someone take a picture" and then another few posts saying "i'll get my camera" but no one EVER does!

[PAmedic]

yeah- I'll be the one ACTUALLY taking and POSTING the shots after my semi-annual visit.

[flameshaw]

I can see the top of the L from North Raleigh, looks good from here.

[Hold My Own]

Let's not talk about the price tag

[El Scorcho]

Pictures forthcoming...unloading the camera now...

[thepostman]

I heard some of the money for it was donated, but have no idea if that is true...maybe somebody on this board can confirm or deny that....

[El Scorcho]

Here we go...



#1: The monogram as seen from the far end of the TRBC parking lot near the 911 communications center. Click here for a larger version.



#2: The monogram as seen from the far end of the TRBC parking lot again, this time with Applebee's included for perspective. Click here for a larger version.



#3: The monogram as seen from the north end of Wards Road, in the Kroger parking lot. Click here for a larger version.



#4: The monogram as seen from the parking lot of the Subway on Lakeside Drive. Click here for a larger version.

And finally...



#5: Oddly enough, this guy showed up to take a picture of the monogram at the same time and the same place as I did. Was it someone from the board? I just thought it was a little weird. Click here for a larger version.

[SuperJon]

Did anyone notice the rocks above the U were a different color?

[Sly Fox]

Other than the fact it looks to me like they might've cleared away a little more timber than necessary, I think it looks great. Its actually better than I was expecting. The shot from Lakeside Drive is awesome.

My only question now is how we are going to illuminate it for big football & basketball victories.

[qkslvrsrfrboy]

with fire, go pour gasoline on the rocks that make the L and U, light it to signify a win.

[Hold My Own]

Did anyone notice the rocks above the U were a different color?

Yes, they are just simply more dirty...after a few showers it should even out


I really think the lights idea is great...it may be a year or so before it's done but that would be awesome....


Keep in mind sly they are still not done, shrubs will be planted soon...hopefully that'll eat up a little space...not all of it though

[Cider Jim]

Scorcho, the pic from Lakeside is in my subdivision (which is 6 miles from campus). I'm surprised you didn't get one of me walking my dog in the foreground. That's also where Prof. Horton and Coach/Chaplain Gomes live.

[PAmedic]

Other than the fact it looks to me like they might've cleared away a little more timber than necessary, I think it looks great.

great minds think alike (Scary as THAT is )

I said to the beautiful MrsPA that it did look like they got a wee bit aggressive w/ the forestry.

Maybe HMO gets a kickback on timber sales

[El Scorcho]

They had to clear out that "extra" in order to get all of the heavy equipment up and around the monogram, so far as I could tell from watching them work.

[Sly Fox]

That's a reasonable explanation.

BTW thanks for the pics. Its good to see somebody step up and get 'er done.

[Fumblerooskies]

If I recall in the initial concept article in the N&A...
...they are supposed to plant new greenery around the monogram.

[SuperJon]

That's what I thought as well.

[LUconn]

There are acutally already plants outlining the letters. It's just that it's winter and they obviously have no green on them yet.

[Hold My Own]

Did anyone notice the rocks above the U were a different color?

Yes, they are just simply more dirty...after a few showers it should even out


I really think the lights idea is great...it may be a year or so before it's done but that would be awesome....


Keep in mind sly they are still not done, shrubs will be planted soon...hopefully that'll eat up a little space...not all of it though

COME'ON guys at least pretend to hear me when i tell yall things!!!

[LUconn]

here's a fun letter. The Pretext kinda invalidates his entire conclusion anyway but here goes:

Times past
After being born and raised here in Lynchburg back in the 1960s and 1970s and then leaving to live elsewhere to pursue other avenues of life, I returned home over a recent weekend only to find that after being gone for more than 20 years, the Lynchburg I grew up in and loved all but seemed gone now.
Things that were once so nice I could not even find and yet every direction I drove in around the city there seemed to be some kind of development going up. I just can’t imagine all this is necessary in Lynchburg.
Gone was The Plaza shopping center which was one of the best, gone was the best teen spot in the city called Wards Road to what is now a major nightmare with obviously no intelligent planning at all in regard to that area.
Gone are a lot of picturesque neighborhoods now given way to the Northern Virginia style of living.
Gone were all the small businesses that catered to its town folk all to be destroyed for big cheap stores filling the city.
However, I did see one thing that has not changed through all the years and that’s the Falwells’ on–going greed to be so recognized.
That big LU on Candlers Mountain (if that’s still the correct name) has got to be the most hideous looking thing I saw on my return visit.
Oh well, at least I still have my memories of what once was.
DAVID E. THOMAS
Hawaii