Christo's Umbrella

Grapevine, California

Late 1991

 

The rich-n-famous artist Christo set up what looked like thousands of these huge yellow umbrellas along I-5 near the Grapevine.  They were in gas station parking lots, fields, hills, etc, for mile after mile.  As I recall, a woman was killed by one of the umbrellas when a high wind lifted it up and slammed the heavy concrete base into her head.  This particular umbrella was located next to a Chevron in the town of Grapevine; I convinced some tourists at the gas station that I had been hired by Christo to drive up and down the highway to provide a more effective "interpretive site."