FTF Honors Goes To Triple Crown!
The is the very first in my Back in the Day Series™. Just a stroll down memory lane. (In this case, El Cajon Blvd.) BYOP
This bar used to be me and my buddies' old college stomping ground back in the day, when it was known as Kelly's Pub. Where on Tuesday nights, when Brian Whitaker was performing, we could walk up to the front of the line that was stretching around the building and get let in by Bob the Bouncer. Where we would get stupid 'til 2am, stumble to Rogelio's for late night Mexican food, and then somehow make it back to the condos on Alvarado Road.
I'm the only one left in the area now. I figure what better way to honor the many fuzzy memories (real, imagined, embellished, & forgotten) than to put a cache here! Old time cachers may remember a geocache just like this one at this very spot. It's the same one, but after I set it up and had to leave to explore the world, it was archived. And you can't reactivate an archived cache. So I rebuilt it. That's how much this place means to me!
Kelly's Pub on El Cajon Boulevard in the College Area had been a dive bar staple for years. In it's hey-day, the bar would pack in WAY more college kids than the fire marshal would allow. Unfortunately, it never recovered after Brian Whitaker, the one-man band who played with a drum track before doing such things was cool, moved to Texas. (At least he took one of our college girls with him.) The bar was still there in 2012, but went dormant for awhile, came back as The Ugly Dog, and now it's Majorette's. I got the picture below from the freakin' Library of Congress! Where Kelly's will be forever memorialized...as it should be.
The cache is hidden in the obvious place. I'm a little vintage these days and I hate crawling and bending around things searching a GZ on a busy street with people all around, so I made this easy. You won't have to bend down to search. Just pretend to be talking on your phone and casually put your hand up and lean on the thing. That's why I didn't list this as wheelchair accessible; folks would probably have to reach up a little too high from the sitting position and it would be super obvious. Look for the "X" on the container; that's the end you want to twist off to get to the log. Magnet is on the non-X end.
For extra fun, feel free to post some favorite pics of YOUR yesteryear!