Purple Polka Dot Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.240 W 097° 07.290
14S E 673139 N 3782673
You'll see a smiling face among the polka dots on the newly-repainted hydrant at the corner of E Main St and F St NE in Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM1328V
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/30/2020
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Not long ago, this was a silver hydrant with an orange 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.
It's not clear as to whether this hydrant is representing a particular character. It may be a clown, it may have just been the artist using their imagination. The orange cap is retained, while the rest of the hydrant is light blue, with purple-pink polka dots throughout. On the front outlet cap is a smiling face in lime green, with a little bit of hair above blue eyes.