Historical Burlington - RBG and Area
This is a Letterbox Cache that IS NOT at the Posted Coordinates
As a letterbox, this container holds a stamp. The stamp is not a trade item, please do not remove it from the container.
I have enjoyed many of the “Historical Hamilton” series of caches over the years, they have brought me to many interesting spots. Hamilton is not the only city with a rich history, Burlington has one as well. That’s why I’ve started this series of caches - based on the “Historical Hamilton” series. This is the second one. Please feel free to add to this series of caches, it does not need to be limited to one owner. If you know of a historic place in Burlington to which you would like to bring people, feel free to add it to the series!
Foot Long
In 1926 Mable Easterbrook opened a store as a tea house. Four years later, a big change was made.
Restaurant and Drive-in
This was the first in what would become a drive-in and restaurant empire, opened on Plains Road West in the 1930s. Its name was changed to Bloomingdale’s in 1988.
Jim dePass, 69, who lives in the east end, writes: east-end Hamilton “Back in the 1960s, this Drive-in Restaurant was probably the original drive-thru in Hamilton. It served hamburgs, hotdogs, fries, KFC and fish.
“It was the original KFC in Hamilton.
“As an employee, I remember cutting up the chicken on a band saw. In those days, the chickens were delivered whole and it was our job to cut each bird up into nine pieces.
“On one particular day, (co-owner) Doug Swire picked me up at the Upper James store and drove me down to the Parkdale store. After cutting up about 800 to 900 birds at the Parkdale store, I was asked to take the small Mini Minor delivery truck back up to Upper James and help them with the cooking there. Around 7 p.m. I thought my day was finished and I started to clean up to go home. Much to my dismay, I was told I could not leave until I had cut up some birds at the Upper James store as they were just about out of chicken. After cutting up about another 400 birds at Upper James, I finally got to go home. Upon arriving home, my Mother asked if I was hungry as she had saved me some dinner. You guessed it. What she had to offer was chicken.” Taken From: https://stories.thespec.io/2015/08/14/flashback-restaurant-memories/
Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG)
For over 80 years Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) has been an ecological jewel at the western tip of Lake Ontario. Conceived and founded through the tireless efforts of early conservationist Thomas Baker McQuesten, RBG lands were set aside to create the region’s first botanical garden. Patterned after Kew Gardens in England, RBG was created to serve as both a regional botanical tourism site and an environmental agency. Taken from: https://www.rbg.ca/rbghistory
Not sure if you came here for a history lesson or not, but I bet you would like to know where the cache container is!
To locate the final, project a waypoint. ABC m at an angle of DEFº, from the posted coordinates
A = The first digit in the Drive-in Restaurant Phone Number minus the fourth digit
B = Sum of the two digits on the large roof sign on the Hot Dog Stand
C = Number of cars on the bridge, "Looking North to the Rose Garden" + 1
D = The digit that tells the time the Drive-in Restaurant Closes
E = The time breakfast starts at the Drive-in Restaurant + 1
F = The number on the closed sign in the front window of the Hot Dog Stand - 1
That should do it, No go find this letterbox cache!