Mario Brothers Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.340 W 097° 07.590
14S E 672674 N 3782850
There is no indication as to whether Luigi is around, but Mario of the Mario Brothers is the subject of a newly-repainted fire hydrant near the corner of Caddo and E Main Streets, Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM11QV4
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/05/2019
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Not long ago, this hydrant was all red, 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.
Today, the hydrant has an orange cap that Mario is wearing, with "M" at the top, and below his face, the standpipe is all blue. He's grinning, with tan for his face, ears, and nose on the outlet caps, and the back of the hydrant is black between the blue and orange sections.