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Smoot-165 LbNA #24184 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 15, 2006
Location:
City:Cambridge
County:Middlesex
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Status:a
Last edited:Jul 15, 2006
In 1908, the incomparable Harry Houdini obligingly posed in front of our letterbox repository before jumping into the freezing Charles River, fully manacled. In the century which followed, the hard-drinking engineers of MIT precisely and in the most scientific manner mapped the unique global coordinate of our repository, as the name indicates. Our stamp for this box is a lighthouse, as the repository is astride a navigation beacon. Lastly, a caveat: because of indifferent pedestrian traffic (with nosy non-letterboxers who might not respect the great tradition), we had to put Smoot-165 in a place totally inaccessible to Charles River lubbers, but, at 6' off the "ground" on the second eastward pylon, still within reach to many thousands of Charles River lovers.