Prospectors Sculpture
Walking Mall at Broadway • 1974


PHOTO BY VIRGIE BAIRD

The robotic prospectors sculpture by Lyndon Fayne Pomeroy, Last Chance Gulch at Broadway, was created and installed in 1974 at a cost of $10,000 -- about $71,000 in 2026 money. The steel assemblage was originally kinetic; the sluice box would fill with water and empty via gravity about four times per minute. The box was soon welded in place following complaints about the incessant clanging, and possibly safety issues.

 

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Conservation, 2002

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Another Proposed Sculpture by Pomeroy

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In 1976, city commissioners turned down an Urban Renewal proposal for an additional sculpture by Pomeroy, this time of the Four Georgians on horseback. In some ways, the most positive legacy of Urban Renewal is what it didn't do. This thing would have cost $40,000 -- about $284,000 in 2026 dollars.