2006 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

damn, there's so many places I have picked for new caches, but I don't wanna put them out. Yet now's when I have all the time I want, to do it.

Tell me where the medallion can't be...HEH

Ian, hahaha -

Great job on the map, Kitch!

Also, Otto Hummer Drive in Highland, which has the STAR swim program in summer with a large pool area for kids. Global warming-swimming in summer? Hummer Drive (swarming bees hum). Who knows who this otto hummer is anyway. Maybe nothing, tho.

Marydale Park was officially established in 1974 after several years of efforts by North End community citizens to reclaim the area around Loeb Lake. According to reports at the time of the park opening, the lake and area around it had been used as a dumping ground for at least a half century.

LOEB LAKE

Loeb Lake is currently designated as a children's fishing pond by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. It is stocked each spring with crappies and bluegills. Anglers might also find bullheads and a few bass within its waters.

Waiting for an "ear" somewhere in the next clue, with Loeb Lake there, we would have an early contender.

I do think, however, that the carnival peeps would get very, very nervous about putting the Med. so close to the Highland golf course. All the rookie idiots would dig up the course. I mean, people were digging around the Pearson candy property yesterday, and that is a private business, violation of carnival hunt rules and not even a park!

hardest clue so far and a majority of the people have there minds elsewhere...

this is not good!!!

IMHO...I blew my morning....bad bad bad...I'm ticked I spend all year focusing on this hunt and I wasted an entire morning...

Ok.. walk through isn't until 1 so I have a bit more time to get back to this.

that's not the case this year though. there's the one big ice sculpture there and thats it. the cords are pretty well secured to the trees in which the lights are.

In the 3 hours I've been at work, snow has been melting at a rapid pace, it's supposed to be just as warm tomorrow, and sunny.

Methinks this hunt doesn't even sniff double digits.

the address of the golf course clubhouse and the police station are both on edgecumbe not hamline.

People are generally smart when hunting. There are plenty of us out there that wouldn't hesitate to knock some idiot in the head for digging on a golf course. It was at Highland before and there were thousands of hunters out there and I don't remember anyone going across the road.

I went across the road.

I had to knock KITCH in the head. :wink:

Thanks KT. I just look at like a game of clue each day. It's ____ with the ____ at the ____.

Figure one of these days I might get it close.

billboards and bus stop signs are too temporary, imho. they could be changed mid-hunt and then the clue is no longer accurate. that's happened before with mock hunts (the peanuts statue on lamberts landing anyone? )

Was there a reference to a billboard at Merriam. I think one of the billboards across 94 had a radio or "on air" part to it.

But you could also see the KSTP antennas, so that point might be moot.

kitch- Im not ignornoring the hunt at all- just dont have more to add right now is all

yeah - I knew about Mickey's. Last night on my mapping software I pinpointed Alary's, Mickeys and Pearson's factory.

Waiting to see what else I can find to pinpoint and surround.

hey.. dr ink... there is a parlor just a block or two down from alarys, I thought I saw...

Anticipating clue #4...I'm betting that tonights clue be the one about picnic tables and trees....

Hi there Tbones and welcome.

heh.

apparently in NY Otto Hummer is a car dealer.

To lazy to scroll back, what was the discussion about Trudeau?

Zeph, do you know the name of the parlor?

yup. hamline splits the park from the 18 hole course, edgecumbe splits it from the 9 hole course. but the disc golf course is in the ne corner of montreal and edgecumbe, and presumably since its not groomed like the ball golf course isn't off limits (don't quote me on that; i just assume the rule exists because of the care and feeding of ball golf coruses)

Vino: But who the heck is or was Otto Hummer in St Paul, must be someone to get a street named after him. Google search not much help.

yup. according to mappy's book. in 73 it was believed to have been placed on what is now the golf course.

Otto Hummer was an Orphan at St. Francis Orphanage in Tiffan Ohio between 1869-1936.

minneapolis.

the other 86 counties in the state besides ramsey :smile:

I think the first part of today's clue might just be saying that there is alcohol available nearby (Bar, liquor store, brewery) so be careful not to be foolish and drink while hunting. Like we would EVER do that. :wink:

There was an Otto Hummer that was a Quantum Phycisist (sp?) that helped prove a theory or something Otto Hummer

that clue referenced the broadcasting tower:

2002 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

I actually went searching for Otto Hummer and then kicked myself- what the heck, its NOT at Highland

there Ian, rule Highland out

like highland.

There is a person named Otto Hummer who lives in Saint Paul, Google gives his address and phone number. Quick! someone call him and ask why the street is named that! :worried:

we went through the 'park with a bar' near it before- Mounds and parks downtown

I just found this great site about Minneapolis Street Names There isn't something like that about St. Paul ones that anyone knows of is there?

That might be a good 'off season' project for me... hmmm.

post of the hunt so far:

K T, "2006 St. Paul Winter Carnival Medallion Hunt" #3153, 23 Jan 2006 8:25 pm

we don't document our street names. keeps the riff raff from the other side of the river out.

oh wait.

i'm on the other side of the river now.

The business on Maryland & Dale (I don't even know what it is, it's changed so many times) Used to be Coach's or Coachman's Pub, for a possible Marydale connection.

last time i saw it, it was still coachman's

I was thinking on the way home from school about a childs proclivity.

I was thinking kids play. play=recreation

then I saw scribes post with rex-rec

might be some thing here imho

last I remember it was a hmong or chinese restaurant

Yeah, I think this is the second or third asian type restaurant that been there in the past 5-10 years.

the other 86 counties in the state besides ramsey

I'll be in Hennepin tomorrow. Three Rivers Parks just revised the geocaching policy, removing cache limits. w00t!

what the heck, its NOT at Highland

I wish I could believe that. I want to hide "Boreas Rex: The Royal Legend" there. Gotta burn a few more CD's, then it'll be ready to go.

nice noodles this morning. I'm still thinking highland might be to obvious

I like BC rec with sking (snow) Ice (rink) and kids slideing hill

ares - that hasn't been the Coachman for years now.

It is an oriental restaurant now.

shows how long its been since i've been over that way.

although now that you mention it, i do recall an oriental restaurant there :smile:

I think Pearson bought the compay from Trudeau in 1951

In 1951 - Pearson's purchased Trudeau candy (merger)