Yellow Submarine Hydrant - Ardmore, OK
N 34° 10.390 W 097° 08.389
14S E 671446 N 3782920
The Yellow Submarine, from the album and movie of the same name by The Beatles, is the subject of a newly-painted hydrant that stands in front of a residence at the corner of McLish and I St SW, Ardmore, OK.
Waymark Code: WM13115
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2020
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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 has been retained, but the majority of the hydrant, including the breaker ring, is yellow. The submarine's propeller is visible in the underwater section depicted on the standpipe close to the ground. The side outlet caps are white with red trim, possibly a set of portholes, while the front outlet cap is gray and black, with a red operating nut. This might be a periscope. On the back is a sticker of the album, while stickers of John and George are under one outlet cap, and stickers of Paul and Ringo are under the other. For whatever reason, the chain went undecorated.