Willard the T-Rex

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Tucson, Arizona

Oh, how far the mighty Tyrant King has fallen! This Tyrannosaurus Rex once ruled over the (now-closed) Magic Carpet miniature golf course. Now he oversees only a junkyard and an oil-stained parking lot in a run-down industrial section of Tucson. As if that is not humiliation enough, he has been given the decidedly non-threatening name of Willard.

Directions: AMCEP Metals, 4484 E. Tennessee Street. Exit Interstate 10 at Exit 265 and go north 1/4 mile on Alvernon Way, right on Irvington Road, immediate left on Contractors Way, first right on Tennessee Street. Follow Tennessee Street until it ends in 1/2 mile; the dinosaur is on the right, behind a chain-link fence.

Last visited: February 2011.

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Revised: March 5, 2011
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