I Remember Discoveryland Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Ty_Fi: There are new owners to this property, they are trying to fix things up. I noticed a sign, pretty big, made out of metal, printed especially for this site, "no geocache on this property". So of course I'm archiving it. I'm a little sad about it because it's my first cache to hide, hidden in honor of my first cache to find which was very nearby, and which was archived. (Interesting that the first cache I found had an Okiebeans poker chip token in it, my first swag to take, and they were FTF on this cache, my first to hide.) But everything must come to an end eventually. This one was getting waterlogged periodically, anyway. I grabbed the cache this morning and am putting it in that one box of memories on the top shelf in my closet to look back on sometime. I'm glad that there's now what seems like a permanent addition honoring my first geocache, a sign I'll see every time I drive home. So the story continues to continue. I do kind of hope that the sign lasts... Thanks to everyone who found this cache.

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Hidden : 8/8/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

There is a place to park right next to cache, BYOP, there is room for small tradable items. This geocache is placed at the original entrance to Discoveryland, home of Rodgers and Hammerstein's play Oklahoma. This entrance was replaced shortly after they opened. Sadly, Discoveryland is closed for the foreseeable future.

When Oklahoma! was open, it was presented nightly except Sundays each summer at the Discoveryland amphitheater, an outdoor theatre near Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 1977 until 2011. In 1993, Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rodgers) and William Hammerstein (son of Oscar Hammerstein II) designated Discoveryland the "National Home of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!"

I live out near here and we used to go to Discoveryland at least once a year before it closed down. I found my very first geocache at the current entrance of this closed down theatere in June of 2014. Even after Discoveryland closed you could stop by and visit that cache which was inside the Discoveryland sign, it was a great cache and a perfect intro to geocaching. But the sign was burned down later on that year, and the cache was destroyed. So this cache is in memory of my very first cache, and also in memory of Discoveryland. This is my very first time hiding a geocache. First To Find can have a "Discover Oklahoma! at Discoveryland" wooden nickel.

Congratulations to Okiebeans for FTF!

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