Pink Panther Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.373 W 097° 07.750
14S E 672427 N 3782906
The Pink Panther is the subject on a newly-repainted fire hydrant at the corner of W Main St and A St NW, Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM11QXX
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/06/2019
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Not long ago, this was a standard red hydrant, 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, there is an orange cap, but except for a bit of the original red paint visible on the standpipe at the pavement, the hydrant is all pink, with the Pink Panther's face below the outlet cap which faces Main St.