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11-12-13 Event (the history of 11-12) Event Cache

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Hidden : Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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Geocachers united on 11-12-13 to celebrate caching geocaching Saint Louis style, at "The Schlafly Tap Room".  Saint Louis' first new brewpub in Missouri since Prohibition.

We all love history, Right!
So here are a few things to remember or not for the event.

  • 1799 First meteor shower on record
  • 1900 World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors -- We may have just as many here
  • 1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon -- sounds like L Frank
  • 1927 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting New York to New Jersey opens -- could a cache be hidden there?
  • 1929 Birth of one of the sexist movie stars: Grace Kelly -- Hollywood movie star who married a real-life prince.
  • 1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken -- Here Nessie, Nessie, Nessie
  • 1936 St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt -- Team_State needs to research there genealogy
  • 1945 The birth of a legend; Neil Young, Toronto, singer and songwriter.
  • 1954 On this day in 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants since opening in 1892
  • 1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted -- the start of the global warming debate
  • 1984 Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage -- the true begining of CITO events


The crew at Schlafy Tap Room are tearing down a wall just to make a room to fit our group. So let's all celebrate the occasion with some great food, drinks, and friendship the old fashioned way.

There will be an 11-12-13 event coins just for the occasion. Cost $12

In order to allow everyone to have a chance of getting a 11-12-13 event geocoin we will initially limit sales to one per attending person. Depending on attendance of the event we will allow addition coins to be purchased later in the evening.
SORRY, We will not take advanced orders.

ALL THE DETAILS:
11-12-13 at 5pm-8pm or till the kick us out.
The Schlafly Tap Room
2100 Locust St, St Louis, MO 63103

Link to the Tap Room menu

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