Judah / Mott LbNA #15400 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Doublesaj & Old Blue  |
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| Plant date: | May 29, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Oakland |
| County: | Alameda |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | lisascenic |
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| Last found: | Apr 30, 2005 |
| Status: | Far |
| Last edited: | May 29, 2005 |
Clues modified July 2006
For those of you who attended the Gold Rush Romp in Old Sacramento in 2005, you may have already pressed the image of Theodore Judah into your journals. (He was the guy with the brilliant idea to build the transcontinental Railroad although he rarely gets a mention over the boys who actually funded the project like Stanford and Crocker.) This box was pulled after the event and rather than have a nice stamp (if I do say so myself) wasted, we decided to plant it somewhere else. Since it's in a totally different county, you'll still get an additional "F" if you find it!
Searching for other letterboxes one afternoon around Woodminster Theater, we became frustrated when we found only 3 out of 6 in a series. The area where these letterboxes had been placed, however, was lovely and one spot in particular really "wowed" us so we replanted our Theadore Judah stamp here.
It seems, a woman by the name of Gertrude Mott, wife of the former mayor of Oakland, was quite a doo-gooder and a spectacular series of pools, fountains, waterfalls and an amphitheater were erected in her honor some 60 years ago. Find this place then follow the clues. There are lots of stairs but there is also a lovely playground and other, historic sites on a few dozen hilly acres here.
CLUES:
Find Gertrude's big pool complete with fountain spewing from the center. Sit on the rock wall due north of said fountain looking toward the Bay. On your right, the rock wall turns a corner with a huge boulder as the corner point. To the right of that boulder, slightly above the rock wall where you sit and under thick shrubbery, is a small slate wall with one black piece of slate removable. Remove it and reach way in. Rehide well AND descretely, please!
For those of you who attended the Gold Rush Romp in Old Sacramento in 2005, you may have already pressed the image of Theodore Judah into your journals. (He was the guy with the brilliant idea to build the transcontinental Railroad although he rarely gets a mention over the boys who actually funded the project like Stanford and Crocker.) This box was pulled after the event and rather than have a nice stamp (if I do say so myself) wasted, we decided to plant it somewhere else. Since it's in a totally different county, you'll still get an additional "F" if you find it!
Searching for other letterboxes one afternoon around Woodminster Theater, we became frustrated when we found only 3 out of 6 in a series. The area where these letterboxes had been placed, however, was lovely and one spot in particular really "wowed" us so we replanted our Theadore Judah stamp here.
It seems, a woman by the name of Gertrude Mott, wife of the former mayor of Oakland, was quite a doo-gooder and a spectacular series of pools, fountains, waterfalls and an amphitheater were erected in her honor some 60 years ago. Find this place then follow the clues. There are lots of stairs but there is also a lovely playground and other, historic sites on a few dozen hilly acres here.
CLUES:
Find Gertrude's big pool complete with fountain spewing from the center. Sit on the rock wall due north of said fountain looking toward the Bay. On your right, the rock wall turns a corner with a huge boulder as the corner point. To the right of that boulder, slightly above the rock wall where you sit and under thick shrubbery, is a small slate wall with one black piece of slate removable. Remove it and reach way in. Rehide well AND descretely, please!