Remnant of Avenue A Traditional Cache
Sask_girl & Novy: This one is gone again. Time to give up on this spot.
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This cache is located on what's left of Avenue A.
This is an area with an interesting history. It has changed alot over the years.
Originally Idylwyld Drive was Avenue A. Where the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge is currently was orignally the CNR Bridge and the area around it was filled with train yards, switching station, station house, The A.L. Cole power station and an overhead footbridge, which linked the downtown with Riversdale at about 20 th Street. Warehouses sprang up along the rail tracks. Homes, and schools were scattered to the east of the train yards. Churches lined the river bank edge; Spadina Crescent was first named Church Road. The western side of the rail yard became the town of Riversdale, and were smaller sized lots. The eastern side was the town of West Saskatoon
When the revitalization downtown project commenced in the 1960s, the rail yards were refashioned into the current downtown core, a shopping mall, and two large at-grade parking lots (for the shopping mall). The rail bridge was demolished and an automotive bridge was constructed in its place. The layout started on Avenue A which became known as Idylwyld Drive. Now all that remains of Avenue A are two blocks. Being tucked away from the main flow of traffic, some people have come to believe that Avenue A has disappeared altogether. We thought we'd put a cache here to put it back on the map. The cache only contains a log sheet. Please bring your own writing tool. Please be careful when taking the log out of its bag as the bag is attached to the cache. Even though you are out of the main flow of traffic, please be on the look out for muggles. The only FTF prize associated with this cache is bragging rights :)
Congrats to scratch1 on being FTF!
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