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96Bounder30E
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Feb 11, 2014

Slab City: Leonard Knight, Salvation Mountain, dies at 82

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-leonard-mountain-20140210,0,4207000.story A couple of years ago I got to see Salvation Mountain in person.......although Leonard was already in the c...
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pnichols
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Feb 12, 2014
Does anyone know his background?

i.e. Where did he come from? What did he once do for a living? Did he ever have a family? If he once had a family where are they now and were they aware of where he was living, how he was living, and what he was doing?

It appears that he was a devout Christian and maybe once had a whole "other life" back there somewhere in the past.

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