Zamboni? Ah there you are... Traditional Geocache
dpyckle: Thanks for a great 6 year run. I'm there are a few more "Z" caches for the ABC challenge than there were back then.
Zamboni? Ah there you are...
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My first ACTUAL hide, It should be an easy PnG. There's ample parking here. I was only able to get 15' accuracy here so feel free to post updated coords...
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Northcross Ice Rink in 1978
I grew up in Austin and a few times a year would ice skate at Northcross Mall. I don't remember it really having a heyday (maybe before I could drive...). My mom used to drag me to the department stores in the mall though. Skating was a blast, walking around in those skates with weak ankles wasn't. Hard to look cool. Every once in a while they would clear the ice and the Zamboni would do its work. The machine always fascinated me. They had the original Zamboni displayed on the West Anderson side of the mall for about 3 years. It is now on the Burnet Road side near where this cache is hidden. Looks like it it going to be trailered somewhere so if it comes up missing this cache will be its legacy...
Now a little history on Northcross, for nostalgia's sake...
Since its opening in 1975 and through its glory days in the mid-1980's, Northcross Mall has been host to a lively cauldron of pop cultural activities, including an ice-skating rink, the video arcade Tilt, Lammes Candies, and Recording Studios of America, who once offered to record proto-karaoke tapes of superstar hopefuls and then broadcast them over a loudspeaker. Shoppers of a certain age will to this day entertain the memory of department stores Frost Bros and Scarboroughs, which once graced the ends of each wing of the shopping center, delivering actual customer service and reasonable prices to neighborhood shoppers. Locals now entering their thirties periodically revisit deeper memory recesses to recall the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday nights in the early nineties, back when you could indulge in indoor cigarette smoking and there where actually dedicated arcades at the malls that took quarters.
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Fvyire ovfba, urnq yriry.