Memorial Park Cache Traditional Cache
Albanysquad: This one has gone missing again. It had a lot of happy visitors, and it's too bad that people had to remove it. Thanks for finding it everyone, and sorry if you missed it.
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Memorial Park, a great park for kids, in the middle of Albany. No
difficult terrain. Cache could be an easy find or it could not be.
Some people are putting this in the comments and I agree with
the practice: Please make sure the cache is hidden well enough when
you put it back to make it more fun for the next people to find it
and to make it less likely to be muggled! Thank you
From the website:
Memorial Park is the main city park in Albany. It has both a formal
and informal character. Its formal elements include wide lawns and
entry walkway, tall trees, and the grandeur of the Veterans
Memorial Building. Its informal character stems from heavy use by
the community for gatherings and passive and active recreation.
Public events held at the park include concerts, July 4
celebrations, outdoor movies festivals and fairs.
It is also frequently used for picnicking. Many children and teens
use the park, including students from neighboring Albany High
during breaks and lunch hours, toddlers at the recently renovated
and very popular playground, and students attending the Friendship
Club after-school program. Picnickers and those playing with balls,
Frisbees, dogs, etc. informally use the wide lawns as well as the
designated picnic area. The park also attracts many users to its
playing fields and tennis courts.
The park occupies most of the large block bordered by Portland Ave.
to the south, Carmel Ave. to the east, Thousand Oaks Blvd. to the
north, and Albany High School to the west. The south area of the
park where the artwork is to be located is the front; playing
fields are located in the back, to the north.
Memorial Park was likely established during the 1920s. The
neighborhood in which Memorial Park is located was still open space
during the early years of Albany’s history, and one long-time
resident recalled hunting squirrels in the area now occupied by the
park and finding abundant mushrooms after a rain. Another resident,
interviewed during the early 1980s when she was 90 years old,
recalled that the area where Memorial Park is today was, around
1912 when she married, a “beautiful meadow – little chipmunks had
their holes everywhere – little owls and jackrabbits.”
The centerpiece of the park, the Veterans Memorial Building, was
built between 1931 and 1933. This grand Spanish vernacular building
was one of 10 similar memorials designed by Alameda County
Architect Henry Meyers. A monument outside the Veterans Memorial
building is dedicated to Albany’s World War veterans and dated
1926. A large stone fireplace in the park’s picnic area is dated
1933.
Historical architects have suggested that the Veterans Memorial
Building is potentially eligible for listing in the California
Register of Historical Resources. It still has most of its original
features -- tile roof, Spanish tile accents, grand main hall with
stage, etc.
FTF: Congratulations, Kilroy Gang!
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