Slate Rock and Gravel Company, (known in earlier episodes as Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company), Bedrock Quarrel and Gravel Company or Bedrock Rock Quarry) is a gravel pit and one of the main locations of the original series, The Flintstones and the rest of the franchise.
Background[]
It is a gravel pit where Fred Flintstone works as a "bronto-crane operator" along with his boss, Mr. Slate who owns the company and works at his office and also his employees, including Fred's best friend, Barney Rubble who's also a bronto-crane operator.
Uses[]
According to the franchise of The Flintstones and the book, The Flintstones' Wacky Inventions, animals were used including a pterodactyl as a steam whistle with its tail being yanked by a foreman, annoucing its' commands and mammoths as rock carriers.
Dinosaurs were also used including the Brontosauruses, as Bronto-Cranes and Bronto-Jackhammers, Triceratopses as excavation drills, Tricera-Trucks and Tricera-Dozers, Tyrannosauruses as Tyrannosaura-Cranes and Stegosauruses as dump trucks, time-punch clocks and Stegosaura-Crushers.
Appearances[]
Media
Television shows
- The Flintstones
- The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
- The Flintstone Comedy Hour
- Fred Flintstone and Friends
- The New Fred and Barney Show
- Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
- Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (known as Flintstone Frolics)
- The Flintstone Funnies
- Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs
Films and specials
- A Flintstone Christmas
- The Flintstones: Little Big League
- The Flintstone Primetime Specials
- The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
- The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
- I Yabba-Dabba Do!
- Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
- A Flintstone Family Christmas (mentioned)
- The Flintstones
- A Flintstones Christmas Carol
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
- The Flintstones: On the Rocks
- The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!
Video games
- The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
- Flintstones/Jetsons Time Warp
- The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling
- The Flintstones: BurgerTime in Bedrock
- The Flintstones: Bring Back Bedrock