Music Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.462 W 097° 07.896
14S E 672200 N 3783066
Music is the theme of a newly-repainted fire hydrant just across the street from Ardmore's main concert venue, Heritage Hall, at 220 W Broadway St.
Waymark Code: WM11XB1
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2020
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Not long ago, this was a silver hydrant with a green cap, 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 an orange cap with a blue operating nut, and they are decorated with music note symbols and a treble clef, with piano keys decorating the bonnet ring. The main section of the hydrant is white, with orange rays extending from the front outlet cap to the back of the hydrant. The main outlet cap is decorated with piano keys, with a yellow operating nut with red on the top. The side outlet caps are red, with yellow washers and blue operating nuts, detailed with music note symbols. There are old style microphones in gray and red near the bottom, and note how the chains are a light green. The breaker ring is also decorated with piano keys, with the bolts painted pink at the top and blue underneath. The remaining visible section of the standpipe is yellow, decorated with red musical note symbols, a black and red guitar, and a red treble clef.