A Whole Lot of Lava From: The Washington Post | Date: April 3, 2003 | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Let Paris have its Eiffel Tower. Soap Lake, Wash., is hoping for a bubbling 60-foot lava lamp.

Brent Blake, a local design consultant, was looking for a way to bring tourist dollars to sleepy Soap Lake, population 1,760. Once a bustling spa town with mineral baths, the little burg 180 miles east of Seattle is too far off the beaten path to get much traffic anymore.

Then inspiration struck: the world's largest lava lamp. It's not built yet, you understand, and Blake has no idea w...

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