Joe Traditional Cache
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The cache is hidden in a woodsy thickety area.
Parking coordinates are provided below.
Some of you will remember the cache that used to be
here.
The Three Stooges
Series
This is a short series of SIX (6)
Traditional Stooge Caches that will lead you to a Bonus
Mystery/Unknown Stooge Cache.
Pay attention to the numbers written inside the lids as you will
need to put them together for the coordinates to find The Bonus
Stooge.
4 of the caches will have 2 numbers in the lid and 2 of the caches
will only have 1 crucial number in each.
Joe Besser
After Shemp Howard died in 1955, the Stooges replaced him with
Joe Besser. Joe Besser was born in Saint Louis, Missouri on August
12, 1907 to Fannie and Morris Besser. His parents were Orthodox
Jews and moved to the United States from Poland in 1895 where
Morris worked as a baker.
By 1928 he was well on his way to being a solo comedian. While on
tour he was introduced to Erna Dora Kretschmer (Erna Kay) whom he
married on November 18, 1932. Erna Kay served as a choreographer on
the 1929 Paramount film "The Coconuts," which featured the Marx
Brothers. Around 1940, Joe took Columbia Pictures contractee Jimmy
Little on tour as his straight man. Soon Joe became a headliner on
the Orpheum, RKO, Paramount, and Loew's theater circuits. He also
appeared on the Broadway stage
Eventually Columbia Pictures signed Joe to an exclusive contract
and cast him in features and Comedy two reelers. Slowly making his
climb to stardom, radio comedians like Jack Benny, Fred Allen,
Eddie Cantor, and Milton Berle were all clamoring to have him on
their shows. Besser made frequent appearances on the Jack Benny
Show, The Fred Allen Show, The Eddie Cantor Show, Tonight on
Broadway, The Vaughan Monroe Show, and from 1945 to 1949 he played
with Milton Berle on Let Yourself Go.
Joe Besser replaced Shemp in 1956, appearing in 17 shorts. Besser,
noting how one side of Larry Fine's face seemed "calloused", had a
clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit
too hard (though this restriction was later lifted). Besser was the
only "third" Stooge that dared to hit Moe back in retaliation and
get away with it; Larry Fine was also known to hit Moe on occasion,
but always with serious repercussions. "I usually played the kind
of character who would hit others back," Besser recalled. With
Besser on board, the Stooge films began to resemble sitcoms.
Sitcoms, though, were now available for free. Television was the
new popular medium, and by the time Besser joined the act, the
Stooges were generally considered throwbacks to an obsolete era. In
addition, Moe and Larry were growing older, and could not perform
pratfalls and physical comedy as they once had.
Besser made many comedy shorts for Columbia before joining The
Three Stooges in 1956. Joe left the Stooges in 1958 and went on to
star in feature films and had a successful television career. On
March 1, 1988, Joe passed away in his North Hollywood home of heart
failure. Fourteen months later, his wife Erna died on July 1,
1989.
Your looking a green match safe container.
Please, be sure to rehide the Cache
as well or better than you found it.
The cache has no pen or pencil so
..........
Good Luck, Be Careful
and most of all Have Fun
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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