Wormhole 2 - Harper Woods Mystery Cache

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RayQix: Well, with the "New Set" of Wormholes just released today, this one has run it's course.

Container was removed, pending the new Wormhole Series and i hope everyone had fun with this. :)

If you "still don't get it" on this one, please PM me and i'll be happy to "splain it all" to you ;)

Maybe this would help too ;)

1: Map (just a map)
2: Count (words)
3: Count (thing)
4: Count (thing)
5: ID (circle for Zero)
6: Count (posts)
7: Count (windows)

Thanks again....

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Hidden : 4/1/2012
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Hint:

n42 26.____ w082 56.____

You're looking for six digits. ;-)


The geocache container you seek is not at the posted coordinates.
You will need to solve the puzzle to locate the container and sign the log.



Harper Woods was incorporated as a city on February 19, 1951 from what was left of Gratiot Township. A charter commission was elected, a charter prepared and adopted, and a city council elected. The City of Harper Woods came into existence on October 29, 1951, when the charter took effect and the first city council was sworn in.

According to the city's website, Harper Woods was so named because it was then a wooded area and because its main thoroughfare was Harper Avenue (named for Walter Harper, founder of the nearby Harper Hospital in Detroit).

The fledgling suburb faced the usual problems confronting new cities: schools, streets, sidewalks, water systems, drains, etc. In 1956, Harper Woods was the subject of a community service study by the Bureau of Government, Institute of Public Administration, at the University of Michigan.

The development of Harper Woods reflected the growth of metropolitan Detroit. In 1955, the I-94 Expressway Route (which bisects the eastern part of the suburb) was approved, and construction on the Eastland Shopping Center began soon after. Eastland Center, one of the first outdoor malls in the Midwest, opened in 1957. Harper Woods continued to develop and grow over the decades. In 2001, Harper Woods celebrated its 50th anniversary.

For many years, the city was home to the East Side Drive-In (located at 19440 Harper Avenue, near 7 Mile Road), the first drive-in theater in Metro Detroit and one of the very first in the Midwest. The East Side opened May 26, 1938, with The Big Broadcast of 1938, starring W. C. Fields and Dorothy Lamour. Automobile capacity in later years was listed at 970 vehicles. The East Side closed in 1977 and was demolished a year later.

The Hideout (located at 20542 Harper Avenue, at Beaufait Street) was a popular teen dance club in the mid-1960s. Many Detroit-area music acts - including some that would go on to national prominence - performed at the club. Among them were Bob Seger, Mitch Ryder, Ted Nugent, Glenn Frey (later of the Eagles), and Suzi Quatro. One performance at the club by the MC5 was described by their manager John Sinclair. The Hideout spawned a local record label, Hideout Records. A 2001 compact disc, Friday at the Hideout: Boss Detroit Garage Bands 1964-1967, documents the scene. One of the first bands to play at the Hideout, The Underdogs, wrote Friday Night at the Hideout.

Another venue for local bands in the 1960s and 1970s was Notre Dame High School. According to various accounts, "All the Motown artists used to come and lip-sync to their records. Local neighborhood bands got to play live." Among the local performers of note who played dances and concerts at the school were The Amboy Dukes (featuring Ted Nugent), Bob Seger and the Last Heard, Frijid Pink, The Frost, Salem Witchcraft, Toby Redd, The Almighty Strut, and other acts.

In the early 1970s, U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall wrote a poem which referenced the city, "Poem With One Fact." Similarly, in 1986, the critically acclaimed crime fiction writer Loren D. Estleman unflatteringly portrayed the city in his Amos Walker novel Every Brilliant Eye. Among other works, the Detroit-area crime fiction writer Elmore Leonard mentions the city in his 2000 novel, Pagan Babies. Jeffrey Eugenides' bestselling 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex also reference Harper Woods.

Betty Bahr, an early local television personality, and Angela Ruggiero, 2006 Olympics bronze medal winner (ice hockey), have been among its better known residents. Dave Coulier, a popular television and voice actor, graduated from Notre Dame High School.

Dominating the cultural and commercial profile of the suburb is Eastland Mall, which sits at the intersection of 8 Mile Road and Beaconsfield Avenue. Eastland Center, as it is now known, houses a celebrated work of public sculpture, "The Lion and Mouse," by Marshall Fredericks.
The photos in the Animated Graphic all are part of Harper Woods, past or present:
A map of Harper Woods, One of the "Welcome to Harper Woods" signs on Kelly Rd., The Movie Screen (audience side) of the now-long-gone East Side Drive In Theater on Harper, A "Thunderbolt" Air Raid siren (recently replaced) to warn the residents during stormy weather, An older photo of Eastland Mall (pre-1970's), a recently upgraded electronic sign in front of the Harper Woods City Hall, and the front of the recently remodeled Target Store at Eastland Mall.
This is a revision of the image/graphic.
The original graphic had some "obscure references" and
made it extremely difficult, if not downright impossible.

After much thought, i decided to rework the graphic
and re-create that portion of the puzzle.

Each of the images EXCEPT ONE has a meaning or relates to
one of the six digits you are looking for in order to solve the puzzle.

Good Luck

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur Cvpgherf.... Rvgure PBHAG fbzrguvat be YBBX sbe fbzrguvat gb rdhny n ahzore va RNPU cvpgher. RNPU cubgbtencu ercerfragf BAR bs gur FVK ahzoref, RKPRCG sbe gur BAR gung vf abg n cubgb.

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)


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