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French Dip Fill-up! Event Cache

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foomanjoo: What a fantastic turn-out! I hope everyone comes out again for [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=6adcc303-0ab8-4571-aa1f-1af194c3ed9b&log=y&decrypt=]Out to Lunch![/url] See you then [:)]

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Hidden : Saturday, July 12, 2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

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Philippe The Original - 1001 N Alameda St, Los Angeles CA 90012

Wow!

There are a lot of events in the Greater Los Angeles area this summer
but they're all 25 miles or more from the Los Angeles city center!
San Pedro, San Bernardino... what about us inner city dwellers?
The über urban cachers?

Well it's about time we're able to log an event cache without spending a fortune on gas!
So come on out for...

FRENCH DIP FILL-UP!

Revel in the cacher camaraderie, get a thrill from the geoswag raffle
and savor some of the best non-Chinese food Chinatown has to offer!

Saturday, July 12 @ 11:00am

The posted coords will bring you to one of the two parking lots
and the group will gather in a private room inside the restaurant on the second floor.

Food and drink is at your own expense and is cash only.

The supposed story of the French Dip:
This restaurant was established in 1908 by Philippe Mathieu,
who claimed to have created the "French Dipped Sandwich."
One day in 1918, while making a sandwich, Mathieu inadvertently dropped
the sliced french roll into the roasting pan filled with juice still hot from the oven.
The patron, a policeman, said he would take the sandwich anyway
and returned the next day with some friends asking for more dipped sandwiches.
And so the "French Dipped Sandwich" was born, named for Mathieu's French heritage,
the French roll the sandwich is made on or because the officer's name was French.
The truth is lost to history.

This is the second of three monthly Downtown Los Angeles area events this summer.
Don't miss out!

Mmm... FRENCH DIP!

Ride the Metro Rail to Pershing Square on the Red Line to the next event: Out to Lunch!

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