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Art Alley Traditional Cache

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Acid Rain: It's missing again. 3 strikes I guess. Kudos to whomever is stealing the container. You win... In the past six months the art has gone down in quality quite a bit anyway. Maybe it's just that the real artists don't paint in the winter.

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Hidden : 6/12/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A micro in "Art Alley".

I have always been a fan of street art. Sometimes it's legal, sometimes it's not. Do you ever find yourself walking alleys looking for vandalism? When parked at a train crossing, do you find yourself admiring the artwork from a "big" city roll by? I'm sure the railroad companies are plenty angry and the police are getting tired of investigating it. This kind of underground culture is all around us and questionably entertaining if you are willing to look for it.

One of these graphitti battlegrounds that is getting a lot of attention lately is the alley that runs between/parallel to St. Joe and Main downtown. In the 1990s, the city had a tough time keeping it under control. Most of what I can remember was just bold statements written in Krylon. It was interesting, but not real art. Sometime in the last couple of years real "art" started to appear in the alley instead. It's hand painted instead of spray painted and nobody is removing it. The collection is quite impressive and growing.

The cache is a micro. Since this is an urban alleyway full of utilties and has poor signal reception, I am including a picture showing the location so there is absolutely no doubt where it is. It's a magnetic key box on the underside of this rain downspout. There are no electrical wires within 5 ft of the cache.

When hunting and admiring the artwork, be sure to watch for cars using the alley and give them room to pass. Non-cachers will be about so use stealth when rehiding the cache. Some art may be unsuitable for children. Somebody is censoring adult images, but be aware that something adult orientated may be present before it has been take care of. Personally I think the hand over the kids eyes works the best if you see something you don't approve of.

Good luck and enjoy the art!

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