GC3PH0Z Elitch Old and New
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: CJSd @ | Hide Date: 06/29/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 46.081 W105° 02.762 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 12
                 

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The container is large enough for small travel bugs and trinkets. Use your geo skills to find it! Some muggle activity is very possible, but muggles should be limited until this gem of a facility gets back up and running. Original contents include a German travel bug, paper crane’s by Mia and a couple odds and ends. Small pencil included but suggest bringing your own device. Be sure to inspect and appreciate the historical attributes of the nearby tree.

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The Historic Elitch Theatre is located at the original Elitch Gardens site in northwest Denver, Colorado. Opened in 1890 it was centerpiece of the park that was the First Zoo West of Chicago. The theatre was Denver's first professional theatre and was home to America's first, and oldest summer-stock theater from 1893 until the 1960s. The first films in the West were shown there in 1896. The Theatre Closed in 1991.

The costs of running the park became too much for Mary Elitch, the First Woman to Manage and Own a Zoo. With the purchase of Elitch Gardens by John Mulvihill in 1916, Mary Elitch stepped down from control of the Gardens and theater. However two lower theater boxes were always reserved for her and her friends. Mary Elitch Long died at 80yrs old on July 16, 1936. Stories of people seeing her ghost in the gardens and the theater began shortly after and continue thru today.

The Elitch Gardens amusement park moved to the current central Platte Valley location in 1994. The original Elitch property was sold in 1996 with the conditions that the theater and carrousel shell never be demolished.

The Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre Foundation was formed in 2002 to raise funds, maintain, preserve and restore the Elitch Gardens Theatre and carousel pavilion. As of 2012, the exterior restoration of the building is complete but the interior remains unrestored.

06/12/2022 By BethanyFoundit
Fun one! Thank you!

06/10/2022 By PoggersGang
tftc

06/08/2022 By loganella
Couldn’t find

05/31/2022 By DaNoob9891
Nice Spot

05/31/2022 By mddel1049
Found it!

07/01/2019 By chartm1
::)

06/22/2019 By CamTheYeti
Beautiful location

06/21/2019 By Duckfacedawe
My second find in Colorado, the old light in the tree is cool!

06/08/2019 By aaevergreen
TFTHSL quick find on a beautiful day for geocaching

05/19/2019 By suula
Visited here with Lunni73. Thanks for the cache.

08/18/2018 By agomeztrujillo
Took us awhile, but we realized we had been kicking at it! Tftc

08/02/2018 By betsy97
Nice find!

08/02/2018 By betsy97
Nice find!

08/01/2018 By Mia_San
Revisited this today to see if it was still around and was happy to see plenty of recent finds!

07/29/2018 By lcamille1050
I've been here 1x and couldn't find it so I tried again and bam it was so easy

07/26/2018 By skip1v
Good fun

07/26/2018 By racheldillon
Tftc

07/18/2018 By Fonganetti
Found during our hidden creatures quest. We’ve been by this cool old theater lots of times but never really spent a lot of time checking it out. TFTC.

07/04/2018 By wall77
Found while caching in the area

07/04/2018 By Ghostiegal
Found with my favorite caching crew...from OK and KS......Wall77...Oilbear....and KSGator. Thanks!! Cache on!! :)