FP Series #653 - Cliff Arquette Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/19/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Six Hundred FiftyThird in the Famous People (FP) Series - Cliff Arquette
Clifford Charles Arquette (December 27, 1905 – September 23, 1974) was most famous for his role as "Charley Weaver". He was the father of the late actor Lewis Arquette and the grandfather of actors Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis (originally Robert), Richmond, and David Arquette.

In 1959, Arquette performed on Jack Paar's Tonight Show. Arquette depicted the character of "Charley Weaver, the wild old man from Mount Idy." He would bring along, and read, a letter from his "Mamma" back home. This characterization proved so popular that Arquette almost never again appeared in public as himself, but nearly always as "Charley Weaver", complete with his squashed hat, little round glasses, rumpled shirt, broad tie, baggy pants, and suspenders.

Arquette's jokes, even though they were corny and predictable, would often convulse Paar and the audience into helpless laughter by way of his timing and use of double meanings in describing the misadventures of his fictional family and townspeople.

Several townspeople would regularly be featured in Mamma's letters, such as:
    * Elsie Krack, the ugliest and strongest girl in town;
    * Grandpa Ogg, whose stubbornness usually got him into messes with "Father;"
    * Grandma Ogg, who (due to a metal plate in her head) could receive television signals onto her glasses so that folks could come and watch shows;
    * Clara Kimball Moots, the town's high-society leader; and,
    * Ludlow Bean, Leonard Box, and Wallace Swine, assorted male townspeople who coped with strange everyday occurrences.

And the letters would usually read something like this:
    * "The entire population of Mount Idy--308 souls in all--was rushed to the Mount Idy Emergency Hospital on Memorial Day, due to a slight oversight on the part of Ludlow Bean. At noon, the old Civil War cannon in the town square was fired, and everybody in town rushed out to the park and dove into our new swimming pool. Ludlow Bean was the only one who didn't go to the hospital. He was also the one who forgot to fill the pool."
    * "We all saw Elsie Krack the other day, which made us all very happy, because when you see Elsie at this time of the year it means six weeks of good weather."
    * "Leonard Box and his wife were such a lovely couple. She was so bowlegged and he was so knock-kneed that when they walked down the street they spelled OX."
    * "I was going to send you that $5 I owe you but I see I have already sealed the envelope."
    * "We had a fire in the bathroom. Luckily, it didn't spread to the house."


As you are traveling to claim this cache within Cedar Hill, you will most likely, at some point, find yourself on US 67. While within Cedar Hill, US 67 is known as the J. Elmer Weaver Freeway. Mr. Weaver was a prominent Cedar Hill resident who headed a civic group to get the freeway built, and his wife was famous as president of the Dallas Garden Club for many years.

So if you were going to hide a cache in Mount Idy or Cedar Hill, what kind of tree would you choose? Cache is a camoed pill bottle. It shows to be in Ellis County approximately 30' inside the Ellis/Dallas county line.

 GPSr Accuracy 9.9'
Avoid the use of acronym only logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses. Blank logs may be deleted without notice.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Enaql Arjzna'f crbcyr znl arrq nffvfgnapr

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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