The Red Hot Cache Traditional Cache

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kenobi5150: Geocache has been logged needing maintenance and we are unable to maintain as we do not live anywhere near this location and haven't for some time.

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Hidden : 4/17/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is slightly larger than a matchsafe; very small trade items may fit. May be a quick park and grab for some and there's a potential for many muggles. Please do not climb on the structure cache is within reach. Be extremely careful of loose bricks.

Cache contains log and pencil and small FTF prize. We've lived in Meridian for a year now and always wondered about this location, so we found this brief history on the web:

In the mid-1950s, workers carved out a few acres of the pine forest blanketing Meridian, Mississippi, and built a large truck stop called the Red Hot. The Interstate followed shortly, and soon a regular stream of truckers from Atlanta, Birmingham, and Baton Rouge were sitting down on the restaurant's red vinyl stools to load up on coffee, hamburger steaks, grits, and biscuits smothered in sawmill gravy. Locals came too, and the truck stop's friendly sign--a crimson "RED HOT" welded onto a turquoise backdrop--became a landmark in this corner of southeastern Mississippi.
Today, the rusting sign is all that remains of the original Red Hot. In 1999, developers demolished the truck stop to make way for a 203,750-square-foot Wal Mart Super Center and several other big box retail stores due to open this summer. Held aloft by scaffolding and a crumbling section of brick wall, the sign looks out like some dinosaur over a sprawling bog of fast food franchises and auto dealerships.
As it happens, the Red Hot name still lives. When the truck stop began serving its first hamburger steaks, amateur fossil hunters started finding fossil shark's teeth in the woods beyond the Red Hot's parking lot. Decades later, paleontologists came and unearthed fossils dating from the late Paleocene and early Eocene, or roughly 55.5 million years ago, a slice of the paleontologic timescale not available elsewhere in the southeastern United States. A prelude to our own Cenozoic era, it ushered into North America many modern-day species, and mounting evidence now indicates that it was also a time of dramatic global warming. Over the years, paleontologists continued to probe the dirt beyond the Red Hot, for which they were richly rewarded. They named their cache the Red Hot local fauna. (visit link)

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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