✈︎✈︎✈︎ Formerly known as Douglas Park ✈︎✈︎✈︎ Multi-Cache

Multi cache which requires you to spend a little bit of time in this park. The park is fully wheel chair accessible. The final location is not. Parking on Conant or on Clark.

Formerly known as Douglas Park for Donald Douglas, owner of the adjacent aircraft manufacturing plant, then the largest employer in Long Beach, this park was created from excess land from the development of Skylinks Golf Course in 1959. In 2006, the Boeing Corporation was redeveloping the 260 acres that was the original site of the Donald Douglas Aircraft Assembly Plant south and west of the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street. As they intended to name the entire development Donald Douglas Park, and create a new park to be called Donald Douglas Plaza, Boeing requested that the name be transferred to the new site. Upon approval of the request to relocate the Douglas Park name, the site was renamed Rosie the Riveter Park in honor of women who worked in defense construction plants during World War II. The park includes a walking path with a historical time line etched in the pavers along with symbols and quotations detailing the events of World War II. Visitors can experience the park by listening to a guided tour, 1940's music and radio broadcasts via their own cellphones. Geocachers have the added fun of discovering information needed to assemble the coordinates for the final.

The posted coordinates are for the starting point, which I refer to as "station 1", that is also where the timeline starts for the walking path. Follow the path to station 2 and on, find the information and you will be on your way to the final. You do need a TOTT (cell phone) to obtain some information. Specific waypoints are not given as they are all very close together. Put your GPS away but keep your phone ready and enjoy the stroll through the park.

✈︎✈︎✈︎ WORKSHEET ✈︎✈︎✈︎

Collect the information at or near the following stations: 

1. WELCOME. When you walk from station 1 to station 2 you find information stamped in the concrete sidewalk. How many aircraft are stamped in the concrete between station 1 and station 2?

2.OUR ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY. How many square foot was the banner that is mentioned here.

3.LONG BEACH IN 1941. When you walk from station 2 to station 3, how many aircraft are stamped in the concrete ?

4. ROSIE THE RIVETER COMES TO LONG BEACH. Just before station 4, what is the number of the executive order?

5.BICYCLES, PLANES AND THE WAR. There are two prices listed on this sign. Find the second price.

6. DOING A MAN-SIZED JOB. The sign shows Douglas workers raising an award flag in recognition of high productions. What is the letter on the flag? (convert A=1... Z=26)

7.WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS (WASP). You knew this was coming! Dial the number to hear the answer to the question that is posted at this station.

8.THE WAR AT HOME. On the small sign, what is the number behind the worker?

9. WORKING THE SWING SHIFT. You see a quote from Eva Lowe. Calculate: (which finger) x (how many months)

10.OUR COMPASS ROSE AND MEMORIAL: What number# do you need to press to hear the period music and radio broadcasts?

✈︎✈︎✈︎ ASSEMBLE THE FINAL COORDINATES ✈︎✈︎✈︎

 N33 49.DOU W118.0G.LAS

✈︎ D ✈︎= first digit of answer at Station #5

✈︎ O ✈︎ = first digit of answer at Station #4

✈︎ U ✈︎= second digit of answer at Station #7

✈︎ G ✈︎= the last digit from the answer obtained at Station #9

✈︎ L ✈︎= second digit MINUS first digit of answer at Station #10

✈︎ A ✈︎= first digit of answer at Station #6 PLUS first digit of answer at Station #3 MINUS half of the aircraft counted in step #1

✈︎ S ✈︎= second digit of answer at Station #8

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.