Riverside — The rock sits in the Stone Valley Quarry last year.
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Riverside — Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, takes a look at the rock.
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Riverside — The 340-ton rock is one of the heaviest objects to be moved since ancient times, Govan said. "It's much contested, the movement of monoliths in ancient times. The estimated weights of certain objects are speculation. But it is pretty clear that this is one of the largest monoliths that's ever been moved," he said.
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Riverside — A crew builds a steel transporter around the granite rock.
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Riverside — Russel McFann welds a link to a crossbeam as he helps construct the custom transporter.
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Riverside — The transporter is nearly as wide as three freeway lanes.
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Jurupa — A photographer lies on the ground for a low-angle shot as the 340-ton boulder begins its journey in a custom-made transporter that is 200 feet long and has 176 wheels.
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Jurupa — The boulder descends Granite Hill Road toward its first overnight stop in Glen Avon.
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Jurupa — Spectators snap last-minute photos before the granite boulder begins its journey.
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Jurupa — The hairpin turn from Granite Hill Drive onto Country Village Road provided the only real drama of the night, taking well over an hour. “We learned a few things there about steering the back wheels,” said project manager Mark Albrecht.
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Jurupa — Vehicles' taillights appears as red streaks in a long-exposure image of spectators gathered to watch the boulder creep down the road.
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Glen Avon — Workers move in to make adjustments after the boulder reached its first-night stopping point in Glen Avon.
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Glen Avon — Anna Magallanez, 34, and her two children Andrew, 5, and Alyssa, 11, stop by to look at 340-ton boulder during its first stop in Glen Avon.
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Glen Avon — Mark Albrecht of Emmert International, the company responsible for moving the 340-ton boulder, checks it out on its first stop in Glen Avon.
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Wilmington — A 340-ton granite boulder is transported by trailer along Pacific Coast Highway into Wilmington on Thursday morning, the eighth day of its journey to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Long Beach — Engineers and linemen confer in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood before the eighth leg of the boulder's journey from Riverside County to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles' Mid-Wilshire district.
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Long Beach — Spectators watch as the nearly two-story-high granite boulder is transported down Atlantic Avenue. The boulder will become the focal point of artist Michael Heizer's sculpture "Levitated Mass."
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Long Beach — An engineer tightens the chains holding a 340-ton granite boulder as it moves along Ocean Boulevard early Thursday.
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Long Beach — The boulder traveled through Long Beach and Wilmington and eventually ended in Carson on Thursday morning.
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Long Beach — Participants in a block party for the LACMA rock dance on the sidewalk in the Long Beach neighborhood of Bixby Knolls, where the rock paused on Wednesday, on its journey from a quarry in the inland empire to the museum in Los Angeles.
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Long Beach — Long Beach residents gather on the sidewalk on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, where the LACMA boulder paused Wednesday on its journey from a quarry in the Inland Empire to the museum in Los Angeles.
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Long Beach — Long Beach residents gather on the sidewalk on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach where the LACMA boulder paused Wednesday on its journey from a quarry in the Inland Empire to the museum in Los Angeles.
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Glen Avon — Engineers stay close as the 340-ton rock travels through rural Glen Avon at 5 mph on Night 2 of its 105-mile journey after an overnight stop. It will travel through 22 Southland cities before finally reaching its destination after an 11-day trek on a 294-foot-long truck.
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Glen Avon — Spectators gather to get a close-up view of the rock late Wednesday evening.
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Glen Avon — Engineers stay close to the 340-ton rock as it travels through rural Glen Avon at 5 mph on Night 2 of its 105-mile journey.
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Los Angeles — People swarm and celebrate the massive plastic shrink-wrapped LACMA rock as it arrives at the museum after the nearly 105-mile, 11-day, serpentine journey from Riverside County.
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Los Angeles — Crowds line the streets as the plastic shrink-wrapped rock makes its way near Adams Boulevard and Western Avenue in L.A. en route to LACMA. The 11-day trip ended Saturday as the boulder traveled along Wilshire Boulevard to the museum.
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Los Angeles — Onlookers snap shots of the 340-ton boulder as it makes its way to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Los Angeles — A crowd gathers at Adams Boulevard and Western Avenue as the rock destined for an art installation titled "Levitated Mass" makes its way to LACMA.
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Los Angeles — People along Adams Boulevard near USC capture the rock's progress with their cameras.
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Los Angeles — People view the LACMA rock from all angles as it makes a temporary stop on Western Avenue.
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Los Angeles — People line Wilshire Boulevard with cameras as the 340-ton rock arrives at LACMA, passing in front of the Chris Burden's "Urban Light" sculpture at 4:25 a.m. Saturday.
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Los Angeles — People swarm the rock as it arrives at LACMA.
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Los Angeles — The LACMA rock comes to a stop on Wilshire Boulevard in front of the museum.
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