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Cary Grant, filming North by Northwest in Rapid City, SD

May 6, 2019May 2, 2019 / get back, laurettadimmick / Leave a comment

58679444_2149987955050847_8581063100826910720_nActors Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in downtown Rapid City during filming of the Alfred Hitchcock movie North By Northwest. The film was released in 1959.

The Hotel Alex Johnson is visible in upper left.

Carving Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota

March 29, 2019March 12, 2019 / get back, laurettadimmick / Leave a comment

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A worker hangs from Thomas Jefferson’s eye during the carving of Mount Rushmore, 1936.

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