Hometown Highland Cache #3 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/6/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

Small Log Only Bring Pen

This cache is dedicated to our hometown HIGHLAND. This Cache is #3 of the Hometown Highland Cache Series.

We grew up here and have memories of how it used to be when the city seemed small and slower.

Before the 210 freeway there were a lot of fields we used to play in..ride our bikes and build forts. That area is now about where the Baseline exit is now.

The 210 used to end at Highland Ave near Arden. The only way across town was to drive. And the only ways into Redlands from Highland was Alabama and Orange Street.

There used to be orange groves that extended west of Boulder. My housing track knocked some of them down but we had a grove behind our track for years. My siblings and the neighborhood kids used to go back there and have citrus fights...LOL

Now you can't really smell the oranges in air like we used to during different parts of the year. It used to be so sweet and pleasant. There are some places it Redlands and Loma Linda you can go to still experience that smell.

We used to go watch movies at the Baseline Drive in. I remember seeing ET, the Fly and one of the many Rambo movies there. It is now a lot where houses have been build.

If we were going out for fast food we were going to Bakers next to the Mobil gas station or Jack in the Box on Highland Ave. Since they were the only places around. There was actually an A&W on Highland Ave ages ago but closed a long time ago. Pizza meant going to Pizza Hut on Highland and Palm Ave. They had a dine in restaurant. If you wanted to eat your pizza at home you had to go pick it up since there was no delivery at the time. The building is now vacant and used to have a yummy Mongolian place there but thats gone too.

Grocery shopping didnt bring a variety either. There was Staters Bros on Highand Ave and Palm, and Highland Farms Market on 9th and Victoria in the same building that the Rio Ranch Market is now located. Way back there was also a store called El Rancho which was located where the City Hall is on Baseline.

Immanuel Baptist church- the large beautiful church on Baseline east of Boulder was actually ran out of a small building and house off of Del Rosa years ago.

There were not many houses east of Boulder. There wasnt much of anything. We remember when there was maybe only a radio station out there. We remember before EHR (East Highlands Ranch). Now there is a sea of houses as far as the eye can see past the old radio station way out on Greenspot.

We still consider Highland our hometown and still love it. However we miss the good old days and how it used to be. So this cache is hidden for then.

Please replace cache the same as or better than you found it.

Please be kind to the landscape here so we are not forced to remove it.

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