[James Byron Dean Birthplace]
James Byron Dean was born February 8, 1931, at the Seven Gables Apartments in Marion, Indiana, to Winton and Mildred Dean. His father, a dental technician, moved the family to Los Angeles when Jimmy was five. On April 20th 1940 he returned to the Midwest after his mother passed away and was raised by his aunt and uncle on the Winslow Farm just outside of Fairmount, Indiana. After graduating from high school, he returned to California where he attended Santa Monica Junior College and UCLA. His first professional acting job was in a Pepsi Commercial and was paid a total of $30 dollars. James Dean had one of the most spectacularly brief careers of any screen star. In just more than a year, and in only three films, Dean became a widely admired screen personality. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, for his performances in "East of Eden" and "Giant." En route to compete in a race in Salinas, he was killed in a highway accident on September 30, 1955 in Cholame, CA.
To log this Virtual Cache, you must physically visit the location and send the answers to the questions below to the geocache owner via an email or message through the message center on geocaching.com. The questions are as follows:
1.) How many spotlights face the arborvitae trees that provide the background to the memorial?
2.) How many spotlights are embedded in the concrete facing upward to light the memorial?
3.) How many concrete benches surround the memorial?
4.) On the East/ McClure street side, how many steps lead up to the memorial?
5.) On the back bottom of the memorial, how many individual entities were specially thanked?
6.) Photos are always welcome but be sure that those pictures do not provide answers to the questions above. Photos that contain spoilers will be deleted without warning.
Virtual Rewards 3.0 - 2022-2023
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between March 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 3.0 on the Geocaching Blog.