K'sMoH: Pinetop LbNA #22894
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Add Location| Owner: | Kristal & Ron  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 9, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Pinetop-Lakeside |
| County: | Navajo |
| State: | Arizona |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | KTJohnson (2) |
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| Last found: | Jul 4, 2017 |
| Status: | FFaFFFaOFFFFFFaFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 9, 2006 |
More from the “Kristal’s Memories of Home” series – planted when I took Ron up to the White Mountains to visit my parents… This hunt is for two drive-by boxes with hand-carved stamps. Hope you enjoy the nostalgia!
At the intersection of White Mountain Blvd. (Hwy 260) and Yaeger, pull into the large shopping center on the north side of the road. This area used to be densely forested, providing a buffer between Pinetop and Lakeside. The towns incorporated only after I left for college in 1989. The only thing in this area, for a long time, was a little mini-golf place about where the McDonald’s is now. It was standard entertainment for any sleepover when I was in 3rd and 4th grades. The mall was here by the time I got to Jr. High. On the far east end is an empty space that used to be the Baskin-Robbins where most of my friends and I worked during our Senior year of high school. A few years later, my sister and her clique all worked there. Let me tell you, lots of whipped cream was shed within these walls! Anyway, we also had some friends working at the KFC out front – they were known as the Chicken-slingers and we were the Scoop-slingers.
To find the “K’sMoH: Pinetop #1, Scoop-slingers” box, spot the yellow guard rail behind the old Baskin-Robbins. Follow it to the left until you come to a fire hydrant at a break in the rail. Take a heading of 10* from north and head out for about 100 yards to a pine tree that has fallen away from you. The box is in the hole in the ground at the base of the tree.
Now head east on Hwy 260 a few miles to the intersection at Penrod and park anywhere. On the NW corner is Windemere Plaza, which used to be Time Plaza. Back in the corner of the L-shaped plaza is where my sister was born. My father was overseas with the Navy when I came into the world, so he definitely didn’t want to miss my sister’s birth. Back then, though, the local hospital didn’t allow fathers in the delivery room, so our family doctor agreed to deliver her in his office here in this strip mall. It was Halloween night, 1974. I stayed home with my best friend’s family in McNary and went out trick-or-treating dressed as Raggedy Ann.
Across the street is Charlie Clark’s restaurant, one of our favorite places for dinners before Prom and the like. My sister later worked there as a hostess during her summers home from college. (They also employed the bartender for whom Pinetop was named, but that’s another story.) To find the “K’sMoH: Pinetop #2, Time Plaza” box, go to the northwest corner of Charlie Clark’s and spot a "Dining Room" cow. The “K’sMoH: Pinetop #2, Time Plaza” box is in the third wine barrel along the fence. Standing in front of the planter and facing the fence, it's under the tree at 10:00.
At the intersection of White Mountain Blvd. (Hwy 260) and Yaeger, pull into the large shopping center on the north side of the road. This area used to be densely forested, providing a buffer between Pinetop and Lakeside. The towns incorporated only after I left for college in 1989. The only thing in this area, for a long time, was a little mini-golf place about where the McDonald’s is now. It was standard entertainment for any sleepover when I was in 3rd and 4th grades. The mall was here by the time I got to Jr. High. On the far east end is an empty space that used to be the Baskin-Robbins where most of my friends and I worked during our Senior year of high school. A few years later, my sister and her clique all worked there. Let me tell you, lots of whipped cream was shed within these walls! Anyway, we also had some friends working at the KFC out front – they were known as the Chicken-slingers and we were the Scoop-slingers.
To find the “K’sMoH: Pinetop #1, Scoop-slingers” box, spot the yellow guard rail behind the old Baskin-Robbins. Follow it to the left until you come to a fire hydrant at a break in the rail. Take a heading of 10* from north and head out for about 100 yards to a pine tree that has fallen away from you. The box is in the hole in the ground at the base of the tree.
Now head east on Hwy 260 a few miles to the intersection at Penrod and park anywhere. On the NW corner is Windemere Plaza, which used to be Time Plaza. Back in the corner of the L-shaped plaza is where my sister was born. My father was overseas with the Navy when I came into the world, so he definitely didn’t want to miss my sister’s birth. Back then, though, the local hospital didn’t allow fathers in the delivery room, so our family doctor agreed to deliver her in his office here in this strip mall. It was Halloween night, 1974. I stayed home with my best friend’s family in McNary and went out trick-or-treating dressed as Raggedy Ann.
Across the street is Charlie Clark’s restaurant, one of our favorite places for dinners before Prom and the like. My sister later worked there as a hostess during her summers home from college. (They also employed the bartender for whom Pinetop was named, but that’s another story.) To find the “K’sMoH: Pinetop #2, Time Plaza” box, go to the northwest corner of Charlie Clark’s and spot a "Dining Room" cow. The “K’sMoH: Pinetop #2, Time Plaza” box is in the third wine barrel along the fence. Standing in front of the planter and facing the fence, it's under the tree at 10:00.