JJ's bright dream is long
gone, yet the picture is recent.
We even sued the French over
it - and lost.
Yet another piece of San Jose's past. The above
shown construction was approved and completed 1881. But after three
years the structure was used only on weekends, since it really
didn't work that well. Police officers, on hand to keep drunken
folks off it, used to love it because of the free food falling of
it. Due to the fact that galvanization was not available the
constructions lasted 12407 days and then crumbled.
This would have been the end of this very bright
idea, but the town fathers of San Jose just couldn't live with the
thought that the French were profiting from their very own idea.
(And you thought this was a recent fad - remember the Freedom
Fries?) They sued their peers in Paris in 1989. The French were not
pleased, albeit they "got the idea" around eight years after
San Jose conceived it. San Jose's claim for retroactive damages was
dismissed by the court.
By now you hopefully have an idea what to search
for. Find the point were I took the picture. You can choose from
two possible approaches:
a) Find out the height of the original object. Now
project this number of feet with a bearing of 1/4th of the
number.
b) Just go were the object is (not was) and look
around, outside of the fenced off area.
The cache is bigger than a micro and is located
behind/underneath the first little hut from the right.