In 1996, a slapstick comedy bowling movie was filmed in part on my great uncle's farm. The movie was about Roy Munson, a great bowler who lost his hand in a ball return after trying to hustle some fellow bowlers. Roy spends his life with a hook and rubber hand from that point on and the movie is about how he drags himself out of a life in the gutter. This movie had some big-name actors in it! Can you name any of them?
I basically grew up in a bowling alley. My dad ran a bowling alley for a significant portion of his life and he still bowls all the time. My dad was also recently inducted into the Butler County Bowling Hall of Fame. (Yes, they have Hall of Fames for bowling, believe it or not.) My grandfather was also a bowler and spent a lot of time fixing machines. As a teenager, he was a pinsetter. This was in the days before machines set the pins for you. Mom and Grandma also worked at the bowling alley, and when I became a teenager, I used to work there too. It was a pretty fun job and I got to bowl for free alot!
So this cache has been placed in honor of my dad, my family, and the movie that was filmed on my Uncle's farm. The cache is a large tupperware container filled with bowling and hand-related cache items (clappy hands, foam hooks, a mini pinball game, and a trophy.) There is also a large severed hand for the FTF.
Inside the cache, you can also see pictures from the movie and pictures of that same spot today. Not much has changed except the guardrail is gone along the one side of the main road. And the trees are a little bigger now too. Otherwise, it looks just like it did when they filmed the movie 16 years ago.
Although you are in farm country, this road has a lot of traffic and people drive pretty fast. There is a pull off area near the cache where you could easily pull over. This is where the tractors pull in to the field. You won't need to go out into the field though to find the cache. It's in a pretty easy spot to find.
CONGRATULATIONS to SHADOW15015 on the FTF!