And, speak of the devil, congrats to war1man,
who braved nasty 75 degree weather and SR 436 rush hour traffic to
be the first to find.
Whilst I am, most
assuredly, unfavorably disposed toward egregiously exacerbating the
calamitous cache pollution problem presently plaguing Altamonte
Springs and neighboring communities, I nonetheless could not resist
establishing this oblique memorial to a now defunct emporium in
which I've dropped thousands of Simolians over the years but which
unfortunately has succumbed to the now extant deleterious worldwide
economic situation, oft dubbed a "crisis" by alarmist media
wonks.
Wait--I got lost in that last sentence--where the heck was I,
dude?
Oh, yeah. Someone apparently proffered this company decidedly
unsound advice, because the store is now shuttered; thus
it never again will purvey an overpriced big screen television or
an obnoxious, unneighborly subwoofer. Verily, this is a pity, but
memorialization of the failed enterprise has become the inspiration
behind and, indeed, the raison d'être for this humble Geocache.
Desiring that it be an educational (albeit lame) micro, I shall
present henceforth the checkered and sometimes sordid history of
the proximal erstwhile emporium and its corporate parentage,
courtesy of the St. Petersburg Times, November 6,
2008:
Based in Dania Beach, Sound Advice was founded as a
single store in 1974 — partly bankrolled by $100,000 in
laundered cash from a marijuana smuggler with ties to the gulf
beaches of Pinellas County. The company later went public until
being acquired by Tweeter Home Entertainment for $61-million in
2001.
The end came after Sound Advice parent Tweeter decided to close
all 94 of its remaining stores. Tweeter, based in Canton, Mass.,
was acquired out of bankruptcy in 2007 for $38-million by Schultze
Asset Management. The new owners chopped expenses, closed stores
and reduced the retailer's visibility by shifting advertising to
direct mail and some radio before giving up.
Once touted as a bounty for consumer electronics stores, the
spread of flat-screen and HDTV sets instead has become part of many
chains' struggle to survive, including Tweeter, the defunct Rex
stores and Circuit City, which this week closed 115 of its 714
stores. Discounters like Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Target have
aggressively become bigger players, as well as installers, as
manufacturers continue to lower prices.
Your mission, should you for some inexplicably masochistic
reason choose to accept it, is to perform a search for and seizure
of the lame micro hidden in honor of this erstwhile establishment,
signing its log and returning it to its secreted resting place. It
is one of CondoMax's camo-taped geezer pill bottles (CTGPB), so
wash your hands after handling it, or you might get that four-hour
thing you hear about in the TV commercials. Bring your own pen;
otherwise, you will incur The Undying Wrath of BoJaB, a lifelong
curse.
And just for you, Mr. or Mrs. FTF, we have such a
prize, already, that it gets me all ferklempt! Enclosed within
the CTGPB is an FTF prize bound to increase the unseemly
proliferation of lame nanos in the area, itself indeed being a
dastardly wee nano container. Please place it in good health.
(No apologies for making you wade through this overly
verbose, pedantic, and bombastic description just for a crappy
little micro. What do you want I should say, "Easy park and grab"?
Oy vay, that would be completely out of character. Besides, ISAG
rules apply here--see
my profile for details.)
Good luck and happy caching!