Oscar the Grouch Hydrant - Ardmore, OK - Painted Hydrants on Waymarking.com

Not long ago, this was a standard red hydrant, sunk into the pavement quite a bit, and it had probably been this way since the 1990s. In 2019, Create Ardmore and the Ardmore Fire Department worked together on a beautification effort in which fire hydrants in the downtown Cultural Arts District -- a comparatively small number compared to the over 1600 hydrants that the Ardmore FD has to maintain throughout the area! -- would be given the glamour treatment. As the Ardmore FD requires that the hydrants have a specific color cap -- red, orange, green or blue -- to indicate how much water pressure each tank has behind it, they did the priming work, leaving local volunteers to use their imaginations and minimal guidelines in the effort.

The hydrant now has a green cap, with the top nut painted light blue as if it was the top of Oscar's trash can. The breaker ring and visible section of the standpipe are painted the same color, with vertical black lines to resemble the trash scan, and a sign that says "Scram!" Oscar has one paw hanging over the top of the trash can, and his face is on the main outlet cap. Note that even the chain is painted the same green used throughout.

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