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gdesignr
Re: Atlanta Coin
Details about the Atlanta find
buck wrote:
sylvanmyst wrote:
yes, please give the details on the Atlanta coin!!!!!


The coin was hidden in a small park at the corner of Auburn Ave and Fort Street, next to the I-75/85 overpass. If you know Atlanta, you know this is a scary place - even in the day time. I don't know the name of the park, because the sign was missing. The sign posts are there, but the 2'x4' panel that contains the park name had been stolen. Obviously, someone was using it for a blanket, or something. In the little urban park, there's a curved architectural stone wall that leads to a small, circular fountain. 20 feet from the fountain is the MLK face sculpture without the eyes (from the clue: "the famous man with something mssng"). The coin was hidden somewhere near the fountain or the sculpture. It wasn't there at noon on Monday, so it was placed within the 12 hours prior to the 29th clue.



Just in case you were wondering, that park is called Dobbs Plaza and the statue/mask is the John Wesley Dobbs Memorial (not MLK).
http://www.handsart.net/ralph/dobbs.html

The artist, Ralph Helmick, has some pretty impressive work
http://www.fine-arts-unlimited.com/helmick/helmick.htm

Thanks for the update on what happened there. I was down there in the afternoon both on Tuesday and Wednesday, obvsiously too late. No way I would have been in that part of town at 3am. Wish Dr Pepper had chosen a safer spot, and released the clues during daylight, but whatever... still a fun contest.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:32 am
jaybertx
Re: Tampa clue about East 4th Ave?
Columbia on 7th Ave
chris_furby wrote:
mko0000 wrote:
Chris , which Columbia were you at? The Columbia is on 7th Ave, 4th is several blocks south. I also assume the 401 with zero missing is hwy 41 ( same as 21st) which is the location of the Columbia.

The East 4th Ave answer is from jaybertx. As I said before, I didn't play the Tampa region. Yes, the coin was found on 7th Ave.


East 4th was the "oriens quartos" clue. We never solved the 401 clue.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:14 pm
thebruce
heh hmmm.... now, where does the number 23 fit in...?......
Razz

attempt at paralleling the idea of 'finding' connections because we want them where none may exist =)

PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:16 pm
chris_furby
Re: Tampa clue about East 4th Ave?
Columbia on 7th Ave
mko0000 wrote:
I also assume the 401 with zero missing is hwy 41 ( same as 21st) which is the location of the Columbia.

If zero is removed, it leaves 41' (41 feet). The Hard Rock guitar was described as being 41 feet long when first installed.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:06 pm
chris_furby
Re: Tampa clue about East 4th Ave?
Columbia on 7th Ave
mko0000 wrote:
Chris , which Columbia were you at? The Columbia is on 7th Ave, 4th is several blocks south. I also assume the 401 with zero missing is hwy 41 ( same as 21st) which is the location of the Columbia.

The East 4th Ave answer is from jaybertx. As I said before, I didn't play the Tampa region. Yes, the coin was found on 7th Ave.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:17 pm
mko0000
Tampa clue about East 4th Ave?
Columbia on 7th Ave
Chris , which Columbia were you at? The Columbia is on 7th Ave, 4th is several blocks south. I also assume the 401 with zero missing is hwy 41 ( same as 21st) which is the location of the Columbia.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:30 am
chris_furby
Re: Tampa Clues
Help with a couple questionable clues
mko0000 wrote:
But what about the wrongly named road; the only wrongly named road I knew was the crosstown expressway which was wrongly named on many maps with the incorrect highway designation number, but the coin was north not south of it.

I didn't play the Tampa region, but I assume the clue meant south of E. Columbus Dr. which should be E. 16th Ave. to keep with the street numbering.

See http://various.wikibruce.com/page/HuntForMore/Tampa

PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:02 pm
BRGUY
BATON ROUGE COIN
<<gordonmfi>>

Where were you looking at, I looked at highland rd park but i was prolly too late or maybe even at the wrong place
but i havent heard anybody say anything about who or where it was found not even the local news

also i was wondering the clue that stated "south of the banks of The Crowds Knee" what yall came up with. . .

judging by the tampa clue above i am thinking it is a jumbled location but not sure what

PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:23 pm
mko0000
Tampa Clues
Help with a couple questionable clues
The blob clue I thought was OK, to satisfy the Hillsborough Bay clue, you just " devou---'r'" the "r". But what about the wrongly named road; the only wrongly named road I knew was the crosstown expressway which was wrongly named on many maps with the incorrect highway designation number, but the coin was north not south of it. Also, there were so many CSX tracks and the clue said the coin was south of the tracks, the closest tracks to the coin was just 100 feet north of the tracks, not south. Of course I am assuming the coin was in the fountain in front of the Columbia restaurant, which may be incorrect.

PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:48 am
rihel
boston coin
Actually, they are also holding a drawing this week for the Boston area coin's prize, for all people who had the 30 clues by the 21st.

I just missed the coin. I and two other treasure hunters even joked that the guy taking pictures might actually be the dropper, but he looked legit. With the ice, the cemetery was so eerie and beautiful that it seemed like the perfect photo op, and he had some high powered lenses that looked professional. I searched for about an hour after he left, but I never did find it, obviously. If I had, the whole fiasco might still not have been avoided, as a mob of people would still have tried to get in the next day.

PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:30 pm
danashulps
Well, guess this is over... the Graveyard wins the prize...

Quote:

Cadbury Apologizes to Boston After Graveyard Stunt, Globe Says

By Chris Staiti

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Cadbury Schweppes Plc, the British chocolate and beverage maker, apologized to the city of Boston after a marketing stunt forced the closure of the historic Old Granary Burial Ground, the Boston Globe said, citing the company.

The 347-year-old graveyard was shut last week after Cadbury's Dr Pepper unit hid a gold coin there as part of a 23- city treasure hunt promotion, the newspaper said on its Web site. People flocked to the cemetery to retrieve the coin, prompting concern graves would be desecrated in the search, the Globe said.

The Old Granary is the final resting place of American Revolutionary patriots Paul Revere, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, as well as about 5,000 other people.

Cadbury Schweppes apologized to the city yesterday and donated the $10,000 prize to the graveyard for ``its time and trouble,'' the Boston Globe said. The company will also pay the city $500 for a police team called to guard the cemetery, according to the newspaper.

PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:24 am
thebruce
More news: Boston.com - Dr Pepper apologizes for placing coin near crypt

Quote:
Timothy L. Sullivan, a Walpole private investigator working for Promotion Watch, walked past the Franklin family obelisk and stopped in front of the marker for Crypt 96 embedded in the red brick wall on the right side of the graveyard. Lying on the ground was a black leather pouch holding the palm-sized, brass-toned coin.

Sullivan said he first tried to "seed" the coin on Monday, only to discover the gate padlocked. He returned on Tuesday around 10:30 a.m., when the cemetery was briefly open to the public, and pretended to take photographs as he bent down and stuffed the bag under the stone in front of the 1810 crypt for Edward and William Reynolds.

Sullivan told city officials that both he and Promotion Watch had objected to the graveyard being used, but that their suggestion was ignored by Circle One. Mary Broaddus, a spokeswoman for Promotion Watch's corporate parent, also issued an apology. Circle One partner Mark Szuchman referred all questions to Dr Pepper, where Artkop [spokesman for Cadbury Schweppes PLC, the British-based food and beverage giant that owns the Dr Pepper brand] said his company was ultimately responsible.

So Dr.Pepper is taking the blame, even though it was based on Circle One's bad recommendations. Good on Dr.P, unfortunately they'll be reaping the consequences most likely, as there will be a hearing including both Dr.Pepper and the Cartoon Network (related to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force issue)

But the best ending:
Quote:
Sullivan left the graveyard with the coin. But Hines said a Cadbury Schweppes official later promised to send the coin back to the city, once it is processed to complete the contest. Said Hines: "Maybe we will start a memorabilia collection of things that have happened in Boston this year with ad marketing firms."

Laughing

PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:16 am
nickelrinny
KC Coin
Can someone please tell me how the coin was placed at the scout statue if clue #21 (The southernmost border of your search will be three powers of three, cumulatively.) is 27th Street. When you look at the map 27th would cut across the park right at the pavilion and the statue is south of there.

From the sounds of the other parks, I feel lucky Penn Valley was so quite, no homeless people, just the poor WWI memorial security guard chasing everyone off their side of the park.

Thanks,
Nickel

PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:28 am
gordonmfi
baton rouge coin
I TOO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE BATON ROUGE COIN WAS FOUND----BECAUSE I WAS OUT THERE AT 2:30 THE MORNING OF THE LAST CLUE---I WAS THE GUY ON TH BIKE---IN THE RAIN---AND RUNNING AROUND LIKE A FOOL---IF ANYONE KNOW FOR SURE, POST IT HERE

PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:52 am
vulvulvul
Atlanta
I was in Atlanta on Feb 10 looking for the coin in the MLK park I had no idea the coins were not in place yet. The clues in Atlanta gave little hints all through out pointing to MLK. Knew it early

PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:16 am
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