PUMP IT UP! Traditional Cache
davealone: We thought for sure after changing the cache container to something far less conspicuous, it would stay, alas, it has been taken also. We give up. Archived.
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Located at a public access area, which is wheelchair friendly.
An urban cache located at a pretty cool place. Debbie drives by this place nearly every day to work, and told me about it so we had to check it out. We aren't really sure of the significance but it really is cool. We are going to try to get some information as to this location, but until then, Debbie wanted to get it published, and I agree. Use stealth, as at various times of the day, muggles abound. If you have any information about this location, please share in your logs. New information: Restored Gas Station May Be Part of Park Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:51 AM inShare.0 (Source: El Paso Times)By David Burge, El Paso Times, Texas Oct. 22--EL PASO -- A Canutillo antique dealer has been busy restoring a 90-year-old gas station in Manhattan Heights in Central El Paso, and the city may build a park around it to complement what he's doing. Rod Davenport, who owns Davenport's Antiques, has spent more than a year working on restoring a gas station at Grant and Elm that dates from 1919. City Rep. Susie Byrd, whose district includes the neighborhood, supports Davenport's efforts and wants the city to build a small park next to the restored gas station. Davenport, 81, bought the property at 2871 Grant about a year and a half ago. The gas station had been converted to a te levision and radio repair shop and had operated as that for many years, Davenport said. He called his efforts to restore the gas station a "work of love." Davenport, who spent most of his career as a personal-property appraiser, said his father leased and operated a service station about 10 blocks away at Richmond and Piedras in the 1930s. But it ended up getting torn down later. Davenport wants to make sure that this one is restored in all its glory for young people to see. "There are people who have never seen this type of service station, even grown people," Davenport said. He plans to install four gas pumps from the 1930s around the station, he said. They'll be only for show and won't be working pumps. Byrd received City Council approval this week to begin the process of vacating an about 150-foot-long, unimproved dirt stretch of Portland Street that runs along the south of Davenport's property. Byrd would like to use some leftover money from a 2004 bond issue to buy landscaping and park benches for the vacated street to create a small neighborhood park. "This will add to what Mr. Davenport is doing and will add value to the neighborhood," Byrd said. Davenport also has two restored streetlights that were originally located along Texas Avenue during the 1920s to the 1950s. The city will install those lights as part of the park, Byrd said. Eddie Ruelas, who lives about two blocks from the project, has been keeping an eye on the restoration and is keeping vandals away. He also plans to rent the building from Davenport and sell ice cream during the summer, and coffee and hot chocolate in the winter. He's hoping to open the business in six to eight weeks.
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