Boomtown Traditional Cache
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Should be able to drive right up, but a high visibility area. High muggle rating!
FTF: Sorry no prize but be sure to sign in the FTF space at the top of the log sheet!
I know, I know, another micro.
I couldn't do better in such a muggle saturated location. But still, I did my part since Coolidge needs more caches!
This cache location celebrates 3 of Coolidge's past "booms"
The first boom was about 700 years ago when there was a huge village where the Casa Grande ruins are at the north end of town. They built a 4 story building out of adobe, an observatory, and had dams and canals feeding their lush farms. Hundreds or thousands of people lived there, then they just disappeared.
The cache location was a gas station in the 50's. That's when this was the main highway between Phoenix and Tucson. When I-10 was proposed, it was to go through this area. Coolidge said "No, thanks". The Interstate was built several miles to the west. Traffic, and business, and this gas station just disappeared.
Another boom that went bust was housing. The sign here was recently full of names and arrows directing all the people to all the local new home developments. People couldn't buy them fast enough. Now, the projects have been abandoned. Buyers and homebuilders just disappeared.
FYI: Waylon Jennings was a radio disk jockey at AM radio station KCKY here in Coolidge and used to perform nights at the Gallopin' Goose Saloon before he went solo and hit it big and he too disappeared from Coolidge.
If you're here and hungry, or thirsty, be sure to have a burger at the Gallopin' Goose a few blocks to the south. It's still there and holds the distinction of holding the very first liquor license in Pinal county issued after prohibition.
They have great food and cheap cold beer to cheer you up as you ponder Coolidge's past and future.
Update: See the nifty contraption behind the fence? It pumps air into the ground and sucks out 30 year old gas fumes. It was paid for with $250,000 of your "Federal Stimulus" dollars.
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