On Location: The Hellfighters (Sabine Street) Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Vertighost: Cache owner (CO) has not responded and, as there's been no cache to find for an extended period of time, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. Please note that caches that have been archived due to maintenance issues and/or failure of the cache owner to respond are not eligible to be unarchived.

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Hidden : 5/23/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for a black soda tube on Sabine Street near Allen Parkway. Like many urban locations, this area has plenty of muggles. With a little stealth you should be able to sign the log without attracting attention. Please replace container as is mentioned in the hint to avoid damage by the landscapers.

The location of this cache is near the site for building used in The Hellfighters as the headquarters of the Buckman Company. The movie showed some potential as a John Wayne action film but wound up being a potboiler. The story is so bland it should have been called The Heckfighters. For the full review see On Location: Hell Fighters (Downtown Houston)

The original building is no longer standing and I located the approximate site by matching up the locations of several skyscrapers downtown. The cache is a little south of the building site because of the proximity of other caches. Park on Sabine Street and you will get the great view of downtown that made this attractive as a film location, although there are many more buildings than there were in 1968. You can easily see the two of the three prominent structures from the film, the old Humble Oil building (now ExxonMobil) and the former Houston Lighting and Power headquarters (Houston Public Works) The Tenneco building (El Paso Corp) is hidden by the green glass walled Wells Fargo Bank.

The El Paso Building is a creation of one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers in world, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It is an "exoskeleton" style with the frame sitting several feet outside the windows with ledges for each floor. This design was used in many buildings to provided shade to the long banks of windows. Some years later mirrored glass came into use and the curtain wall became more popular, leaving these buildings as markers for the time they were built. The El Paso building is a handsome example of the style.

Congratulations to jjax12 for being FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Bire gur jnyy, ghpxrq vagb gur ivarf. Frpherq nebhaq n ivar fgrz.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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