The Scream Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.326 W 097° 07.760
14S E 672413 N 3782819
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is the subject on a newly-repainted fire hydrant at the corner of Hinkle St and A St SW, Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM11QD8
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/02/2019
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Not long ago, this was a standard red 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.
The orange cap is retained in a creative way, worked into the orange-red sky, and the colors are considerably cleaner and more prominent than the original work(s). Visitors are welcome to compare and contrast.