Lost Rockford 3 - The Hollywood Drive In Traditional Cache
ILReviewer: Since I haven't heard from the owner I'm reluctantly archiving this cache. If the owner wishes to reactivate this cache in the next couple of months, please e-mail me at IllinoisGeocacher@yahoo.com and I'll unarchive it as soon as I can.
Lost Rockford 3 - The Hollywood Drive In
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(micro)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
This is the third cache in a series that will educate cachers about
some of the businesses and locales in the Rockford Area that have
been lost to time.
This should be a PNG but bring your own scribbler, and please hide
cache as found or better!
West of this location is a restaurant called Alpine View Inn. It
has been in this building for a bit of time but the focus on this
cache is what this building used to be. This place used to be a
Hollywood Dining Center and before that it was a Hollywood Drive In
Restaurant. This Drive-In was a popular hang out in the 1960's and
1970's as told to me by natives of Rockford.
I don't know much about the history of this establishment, only
that I know that it was there. I originally intended to place this
cache at the site of another popular Drive-In within .25 mile of
this one called The Alps Root Beer Drive-In. That location is on
Charles Street where El Burrito Loco now stands. I didn't think
that that location would be really supportive of a cache, so I
brought it here.
While I have you here, I can also tell you about the building to
the Southeast of the hide. That building is being renovated as a
church but before that it was one of Rockford's original Hilander
grocery stores. The store moved .60 mile South to a building
vacated by Eagle grocery store. Hilander is a Rockford original and
has been lost in a sense because the smaller chain was sold to
Kroger in the past ten years and to Schnucks (Owners of the Logli
Chain) on September 21st, 2011.
Congrats to triton66mike for FTF!!!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ab arrq gb ohfujnpx, abe onat lbhe urnq ba gur jnyy... Syben ybirf lbh gb svaq gur Snhan.
Gur rivy ohfurf arneol jnag gb gel gb gevpx lbh... Guvf uvqr vf ba fbzrguvat gung fgnaqf nobir gur bguref... Gel guvf sebz gur ybj fvqr.
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures