WELCOME TO SCOTTS VALLEY
This Cache replaces the former Evil Mystery and History Geocache and just names a couple luminaries. The new container is not visible in the photograph.
This is no longer a Mystery or Puzzle Geocache. The container is at the posted coordinates. No puzzle to Find the Cache!
Scotts Valley was known to be home of “The Barn”, once a corner coffee house, near Geocache "Reflection", with a large area for concerts. In the '60s Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead performed in the Barn. Reportedly during the mid-to-late 60s, if you visited The Barn in Scotts Valley on a Friday or a Saturday evening, you could hear, not the mooing of cows, but the raucous sounds of rock music. The Barn, which advertised many big-name musicians, featured in Tom Wolfe's Merry Pranksters saga The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, was the go-to place for the Hippie Community seeking an evening’s entertainment. It was, as Wallace Baine wrote in his 2009 Santa Cruz Sentinel article, “The Epicenter of the Flower-Power Movement.” A grandiose description perhaps for a cow barn standing in a field in a quiet, conservative community.
Thank You Sarah Bobson
Scott’s Valley was so small at the time that posters for The Barn only indicated directions to Scott’s Valley itself (Scott’s Valley Drive, just off Highway 17). The Barn ceased being a nightclub by 1968, as the Baymonte Christian School took over the site. The Barn became a dinner theater in an RV park in the 70s, and eventually a warehouse for Seagate Technologies. The Barn was torn down in 1991.
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