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New Year’s Day 2024 / The Former, Hylan plaza Traditional Cache

Hidden : 12/30/2023
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Hylan Plaza debuted in 1966 with the opening of a Fox Plaza Movie theater and WT Grant Dept stores 
 You are  standing in what once was a Hylan Shopping Plaza rear parking lot behind the fox plaza movie theater

List of former tenant : 
* Fox  plaza, movie theater ,where I saw The  Poseidon adventure, Jaws and the Rocky horror picture show,  it later became are UA movie theater 
W.T. Grant, closed and became a Kmart
Pathmarks  then that became King Kullen, (operated during Pathmark's hiatus from 2007-2009).
Garber Brothers Dept store , replaced by Kiddie City c. 1990, Toys "R" Us/Babies "R" Us combination in the late 90s 
Sav-On Drugs, replaced by Revco, the a CVS 
Kodak Photo Booth, located within parking lot, demolished in the late 1990s.
Rio Bravo Cantina, later Chevys Fresh Mex, 
Our Music Center with ticket Tron outlet inside later Ticketmaster  ( i got first Bruce Springsteen concert tickets there after waiting on line 9 hours ) 
NYC OTB 

Modell sporting goods
 There was an ice cream parlor . A jewelry store, a head shop (smoke shop)  , a store called the candle factory, a bank with a drive-through  and a bunch of small independently  owned stores 


 It was  Demolished around 2018 to make a way for the new Plaza called the Boulevard 

*** Bring a pen ***

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all “ 
Helen Kelle

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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