The Starry Night Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.342 W 097° 08.012
14S E 672025 N 3782842
Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" is the subject on a newly-repainted fire hydrant at the corner of 1st Ave SW and D St SW, Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM122K3
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/10/2020
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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.
The orange cap is retained, although there is a bit of the artwork (the moon) on the front, certainly not enough to negate the color coding. The artist also utilized every visible piece of the hydrant, and some of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence can be seen on the lower standpipe. Visitors are welcome to compare and contrast.