On Location: FM (The Summit) Traditional Cache
On Location: FM (The Summit)
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You are looking for a magnetic key holder containing a log and pen. This is muggle central 7 days a week, but if you can park next to the cache you will not look conspicuous.
FM tells the story of a Los Angeles radio station that has become popular because of the great music it plays. All is well until the corporate minions come in to strip the station of its autonomy and make even greater profits by playing more commercials, including those annoying "Join the Army" ditties. The station manager publicly resigns, and the DJ's rebel, calling on the listeners to help save the station from the evil corporate takeover. The ensuing event result in a riot in front of the station offices to the the sounds of Queen's We Will Rock You, which is only quelled when an old guy in a limo pulls in to announce that the corporation has heard its listeners and will give them what they want.
The scenario of a great radio station going bad was familiar to those of us in college at the time. Radio stations were always remaking themselves to hold a certain demographic segment. This change was heightened as popular music stations were increasing in number while at the same time disco and other non rock and roll styles of music were becoming more prominent. This movie was something of a precursor to the Clear Channel take over of radio that started 20 year later. While certainly featuring great music and contemporary issues that were important to students of the day, as a movie FM was pretty bland. The acting was dull and the deus ex machina ending uninspiring.
While the movie was set in Los Angeles, one scene was filmed at a Linda Ronstadt concert in Houston. At the great concert venue in Houston, then called The Summit. The site suffered a series of corporate takeovers of its own, first when naming rights were sold and it was renamed the Compaq Center. Later, after the Toyota Center opened downtown, replacing the Summit as the city's main sports and concert venue, it became Lakewood Church and the corporate headquarters of Joel Olsteen Ministries. For those of us that came of age going to concerts in the seventies and early eighties, it will always be the Summit. The sounds of ZZ Top, The Who and The Grateful Dead and the hundreds of other bands that played there will echo within those walls forever.
The cache is placed across the street from the west side of the building. This side is where the tour buses would drive in to deliver the performers. The original ticket booth was at the entrance level. The west face is also the least changed by the church remodeling.
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