Civil Defense--Filling in the Gaps

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

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One of a series to fill in the gaps between Downtown caches. Parking is scarce or prohibited near most of these caches.  If you find a good parking spot, take it and do this series as an "urban hike." 

Magnetic bison tube.

Growing up in Los Angeles, I remember the last Friday 10:00 a.m. civil defense sirens going off.  I always thought that if the Soviets were going to attack us, the last Friday at 10 o'clock would be the time to do it.  Everyone would think it was a test.

The sirens have long been silent.  The system no longer works.  It was disconnected in 1985.  However, most of the sirens still dot the landscape, monuments to the Cold War.

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November 8 by Oddoc121 (129 found) Muggles from Cal Trans....hope they didn't see us pull it! [view this log]

November 7 by Gummyfrog (619 found) Was a quick find. I like things like this so thank you for taking me here. I hope they never have to start testing them again. [view this log]

October 22 by WindyMatters (657 found) I had no problem finding this cache but one problem retrieving it. I will quote Randy Newman, who sang about my problem: "They got little baby legs That stand so low You got to pick em up Just to say hello" Yeah, I got no reason, no reason to live I have actually been in the studios here, enjoying lunch, meeting people and watching filming of an episode of Num3ers. I wasn't a cacher back then, just a lady who sold David Krumholtz the love of his life: Hannah. OK, Hannah is a dog, but she is the love of his life! I grew up in San Diego in the 60s and I don't remember any of the cold war drills. No duck and cover drills for the mushroom cloud and I don't think I have ever heard an air raid siren. Am I too young or was San Diego too laid back? TNLNSL TFTC [view this log]

October 18 by Ohnorun (75 found) Signed log. TFTC! [view this log]

October 7 by grenoble (226 found) I had to drive around in circles a bit before honing in on GZ. After that the find was relatively quick. SL. Thanks! [view this log]

Current time: 11/21/2009 12:54:14 PM
Last Updated: 11/10/2009 5:09:09 AM
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