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GC17WT8

Traditional Cache Dream Center
A  cache by c33       Hidden: 12/9/2007  
Size: Size: Micro (Micro)      Difficulty: 1 out of 5      Terrain: 1.5 out of 5 (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  []
In California, United States

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Easy drive by magnetic bison tube near the old Queen of Angels Hospital.

A bison tube is a half inch diameter aluminum tube that's an inch and a half long. It's got a key ring in the top. This has a magnet and it's stuck on the back of a metal object.

This is located outside the lower parking lot of the old Queen of Angels hospital, on public property. Hundreds of people are usually around the upper campus, so this location seemed like a better place to put a cache.

The Queen of Angels Hospital was founded by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1926. The 360,000 sq foot facility has over 1000 rooms and a total of 9 buildings on the campus. This 14 story building is viewed by over 2 million motorists each week on the Hollywood Freeway.

The hospital had such a steady growth in patient admissions, births, and patient day care from 1926 to 1932, they had to add additional wings to the hospital. They followed suite in 1938 and again in 1845 which was followed by a great increase in services. At one point in it's history, the vast majority of Los Angeles residents had been born in the Queen of Angels hospital.

It fell on hard financial times in the 1980s. A solution was found in 1989 when it merged with a neighborhood hospital, Hollywood Clara Barton Hospital. After more than half a century of service, this building closed it's doors to the public.

The site was vacant over 6 years and used mostly as a filming site for Hollywood movies, including Patriot Games, Outbreak, Hard to Kill, Ghost, Nixon, and Apollo 13. NYPD Blues, Unsolved Mysteries, LA Law, E.R., and 90210 were among the TV shows filmed here.

In 1996, Matthew and Tommy Barnett bought it and turned it into the facility that it is today. I would describe more of what it is today, but functioning organizations can not be mentioned on this site. It's a huge, cool old building, visible for miles, with a lot of history near the heart of Hollywood.


Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

fvtaonpx (Decrypted Hints)




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 November 8 by TheRodds (135 found)
While heading out of town to go up the coast, we wanted to grab a quick cache in this area. Using no less than three GPS devices to get to the area, we were able to retrieve the cache quickly. Only a small delay in replacing it as the muggle activity in the area picked up briefly. Got out just in time as more came into the lot. TFTC!

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 October 18 by daniilk (27 found)
TFTC!!! Had to hang here for a few because of the muggle factor but we waited them out and got the cache!

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 August 7 by ventudude (392 found)
Lots of people coming and going here. Found it before a Dodger game.

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 July 19 by hammerandsickle (20 found)
Weird muggles abound, but they're pretty oblivious, even the ones wearing bright pink shorts with mullets. Is that the stuff dreams are made of? TFTC!

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 July 6 by mikko&sira (4480 found)
Nice, quick and easy cache.
Thanks for the cache and greetings from Finland.

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Current time: 11/22/2009 8:46:00 AM
Last Updated: 11/12/2009 9:45:56 PM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum

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