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Dinosaurs Help Save New Jersey Town

Posted Sep 09, 2006 at 12:47AM by Alaric S. Listed in: Paleontology Tags: T. rex
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Except for Barney, when dinosaurs move into a city, it's usually bad news. Cars are flattened. Buildings are smashed. Movie extras are eaten. But in Paterson, 15 miles west of Manhattan, dinosaurs were warmly welcomed as guests.

A thriving city of silk and cotton mills in its heyday, Paterson became another struggling manufacturing town that inspired a lot of Bruce Springsteen songs. Its finances sagged and as crime rates rose, its people migrated elsewhere.

But since 2002, Paterson has started its long hard climb back. Mayor Jose Torres has attracted almost $500 million of investment including Phil Fraley Productions, a company that rebuilds dinosaur bones for museum exhibits.

Owner Phil Fraley has prepared dinosaur exhibits for the California Academy of Sciences, New York's American Museum of Natural History and was involved in the restoration of Sue, the world's most famous T. rex, for Chicago's Field Museum. And his company needed cheap real estate.

In the company's new 11,000-square-foot Paterson studio, the team is working on a dramatic prehistoric confrontation: a mother Apatosaurus guarding its offspring from a marauding Allosaurus. The dinosaurs are part of a $7 million restoration job.  Once completed, the skeletons will be shipped back to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

"We couldn't afford anything in Hoboken, couldn't afford anything in Newark,'' the company said. "Paterson still had affordable real estate.''

And that's how dinosaurs helped save a town.

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