Elitch Old and New Traditional Cache
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The container is large enough for small travel bugs and trinkets. Use your geo skills to find it! Some muggle activity is very possible, but muggles should be limited until this gem of a facility gets back up and running. Original contents include a German travel bug, paper crane’s by Mia and a couple odds and ends. Small pencil included but suggest bringing your own device. Be sure to inspect and appreciate the historical attributes of the nearby tree.
The Historic Elitch Theatre is located at the original Elitch Gardens site in northwest Denver, Colorado. Opened in 1890 it was centerpiece of the park that was the First Zoo West of Chicago. The theatre was Denver's first professional theatre and was home to America's first, and oldest summer-stock theater from 1893 until the 1960s. The first films in the West were shown there in 1896. The Theatre Closed in 1991.
The costs of running the park became too much for Mary Elitch, the First Woman to Manage and Own a Zoo. With the purchase of Elitch Gardens by John Mulvihill in 1916, Mary Elitch stepped down from control of the Gardens and theater. However two lower theater boxes were always reserved for her and her friends. Mary Elitch Long died at 80yrs old on July 16, 1936. Stories of people seeing her ghost in the gardens and the theater began shortly after and continue thru today.
The Elitch Gardens amusement park moved to the current central Platte Valley location in 1994. The original Elitch property was sold in 1996 with the conditions that the theater and carrousel shell never be demolished.
The Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre Foundation was formed in 2002 to raise funds, maintain, preserve and restore the Elitch Gardens Theatre and carousel pavilion. As of 2012, the exterior restoration of the building is complete but the interior remains unrestored.
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