Lost Rockford 3 - The Hollywood Drive In Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

ILReviewer: Since I haven't heard from the owner I'm reluctantly archiving this cache. If the owner wishes to reactivate this cache in the next couple of months, please e-mail me at IllinoisGeocacher@yahoo.com and I'll unarchive it as soon as I can.

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Hidden : 10/10/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is the third cache in a series that will educate cachers about some of the businesses and locales in the Rockford Area that have been lost to time.

This should be a PNG but bring your own scribbler, and please hide cache as found or better!

West of this location is a restaurant called Alpine View Inn. It has been in this building for a bit of time but the focus on this cache is what this building used to be. This place used to be a Hollywood Dining Center and before that it was a Hollywood Drive In Restaurant. This Drive-In was a popular hang out in the 1960's and 1970's as told to me by natives of Rockford.

I don't know much about the history of this establishment, only that I know that it was there. I originally intended to place this cache at the site of another popular Drive-In within .25 mile of this one called The Alps Root Beer Drive-In. That location is on Charles Street where El Burrito Loco now stands. I didn't think that that location would be really supportive of a cache, so I brought it here.

While I have you here, I can also tell you about the building to the Southeast of the hide. That building is being renovated as a church but before that it was one of Rockford's original Hilander grocery stores. The store moved .60 mile South to a building vacated by Eagle grocery store. Hilander is a Rockford original and has been lost in a sense because the smaller chain was sold to Kroger in the past ten years and to Schnucks (Owners of the Logli Chain) on September 21st, 2011.

Congrats to triton66mike for FTF!!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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