The Final Stooge Mystery Cache
Hidden : 10/28/2009
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

*** The cache is NOT***
***at the posted coordinates! ***

** You must first collect the clues from **
** the other SIX (6) Three Stooges caches **
** to claim a Smiley for this cache **

The Three Stooges
Series
Bonus Cache



Most popular Three Stooges line-up
from L-R: Moe, Curly and Larry

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The Clues to the Bonus Cache
are in the following format:

N 39° AB.CDE
W 084° VW.XYZ

You will need to collect the clues from the other
SIX (6) Tradtional Three Stooges caches to put coordinates for the final together.

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The Stooges were commonly known by their first names: "Larry, Moe, and Curly" and "Moe, Larry, and Shemp," among other lineups. The act originally featured Moe Howard, brother Shemp Howard and longtime friend Larry Fine. Shemp was later replaced by brother Curly Howard. When Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in 1946, Shemp rejoined the act. After Shemp's death in 1955, he was replaced by bald-headed comedian Joe Besser, after the use of stuntman Joe Palma to record several "Shemp" shorts after his death. Eventually Joe "Curly-Joe" DeRita (born Joseph Wardell) would replace him. Larry suffered a serious stroke in 1970, and was unable to continue performing. Emil Sitka, a longtime actor in Stooge comedies, was contracted to replace Larry, but no film was ever made with him in the role, although publicity photographs exist of him with his hair combed similarly to Larry's, posing with Moe and Curly-Joe (see below). However, Larry's paralyzing stroke in 1970 effectively marked the end of the act. He died in January 1975. Moe died of cancer a few months later.

Ted Healey (real name Clarence Ernst Lee Nash), who started out with the Stooges in 1922 under a different act, a raucous vaudeville act called "Ted Healy and His Stooges" (a.k.a. "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen", "Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls" and "Ted Healy and His Racketeers", was with them until their final split-up in 1934. Healey died on December 21, 1937 at the age of age 41 under mysterious circumstances.

Emil Sitka appeared in numerous Three Stooges films and was named an official Stooge after Larry Fine suffered a paralyzing stroke in 1970 and could no longer perform. Publicity photos of Sitka in this capacity with Moe Howard and Curly Joe DeRita were circulated. Sitka named his character "Harry" (rhymes with "Larry") and thought of him as being extremely conscientious to the point of ridiculousness. Two feature film offers for this reconstituted Three Stooges were considered, but this version of the group never acted together on film. The Three Stooges officially ended with the death of Moe Howard in 1975.
Sitka continued with the acting career, more out of love for acting than the need for money (including a cameo as a supermarket customer in the 1989 horror film Intruder, in which he said his signature line), appearing in films as late as 1992.
He was in demand at various Three Stooges conventions, and had numerous requests from Three Stooges fans to appear at their wedding to say "Hold hands, you lovebirds!", Sitka's most famous line from the 1947 Stooges short, Brideless Groom.
While hosting several Stooge fans in his home in June 1997, Sitka suffered a massive stroke and never regained consciousness. He died peacefully on January 16, 1998 in Camarillo, California. As a tribute to his tenure with the Stooges, Sitka's gravestone reads "Hold hands, you lovebirds!"


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The cache is a Regular sized Lock-n-Lock
with room for lots of trade items and trackables.
It is hidden in a woodsy sort of area.


Please, be sure to rehide the Cache as well
or better than you found it.

Good Luck, Be Careful
and most of all Have Fun



Congrats to Grey-n-Red for FTF Honors on 10/30/2009


Congrats to SM325 for Milestone Find #2600 on 11/05/2009

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