Help me identify this person.

[SplshMtn99]

I'm working on a puzzle. Please look at this photo.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cach...1-3cbc-46fd-973c-1234d49b8f02&log=y&decrypt=y

Who is the older gentleman with bushy hair?
I know the Red Sox player is Carl Yastrzemski.
Car is Herbie the Love Bug.

The rest of it I'll work on later, but for now, I need the old dude. Its probably someone I should know, but my guesses have failed.

Thanks.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Martin Van Buren

 

[DISUNC]

The older gent is Martin Van Buren

8th Pres of USA

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/ig/Images-of-US-Presidents/

 

[JessicaR]

Martin Van Buren

Yes thats him!

 

[Guy Incognito]

Martin Van Buren

winner winner chicken dinner

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/ig/Images-of-US-Presidents/Martin-Van-Buren.htm

 

[SplshMtn99]

Great. Thank you!
Now, maybe I'll be smart enough to crack the rest of the codes.

Anyone have any clue what the red & green dots is all about?

 

[DISUNC]

Is the answer a LOCATION?????

 

[agnes!]

Oh phooey, I was thinking it was Ralph Waldo Emerson.

agnes!

 

[SplshMtn99]

It reminds me of cribbage. ??

 

[SplshMtn99]

Is the answer a LOCATION?????

yes, coordinates in the Putnam CT area. (datum 84)

 

[Guy Incognito]

yes, coordinates in the Putnam CT area. (datum 84)

maybe it has something to do with numbers related to the pics....

Van Buren = 8th president
Notes = 8th notes
Yaz = uniform #8
VW bug = 53 (5+3 = 8)

 

[DISUNC]

maybe it has something to do with numbers related to the pics....

Van Buren = 8th president
Notes = 8th notes
Yaz = uniform #8
VW bug = 53 (5+3 = 8)

ooooooo good one!

 

[agnes!]

I thought the notes themselves were a clue...G, C

agnes!

 

[SplshMtn99]

maybe it has something to do with numbers related to the pics....

Van Buren = 8th president
Notes = 8th notes
Yaz = uniform #8
VW bug = 53 (5+3 = 8)

Nice. And the octagon shape in the middle. I'm wondering if I need to convert something using base 8 numbering system. Stuff like that is common.


Here is the puzzle hint. [Puzzle hint] It is where four and four equal 10, but zero still equals 0

I was looking at Rt 44 ( 4 + 4)...and the address 10 Rt 44 is near a large shopping center it looks like. That could be the "stay outside the box"...big box store.

If the dot photo is something like a cribbage board / score, maybe that's what I'm to convert?

 

[SplshMtn99]

If it helps, the guy who hid this used to decode messages in the navy.

 

[DISUNC]

If it helps, the guy who hid this used to decode messages in the navy.

Was he Loaded when he decoded stuff????
That may help in this instance.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Nice. And the octagon shape in the middle. I'm wondering if I need to convert something using base 8 numbering system. Stuff like that is common.


Here is the puzzle hint. [Puzzle hint] It is where four and four equal 10, but zero still equals 0

I was looking at Rt 44 ( 4 + 4)...and the address 10 Rt 44 is near a large shopping center it looks like. That could be the "stay outside the box"...big box store.

If the dot photo is something like a cribbage board / score, maybe that's what I'm to convert?

I'm skipping the Rt 44 theory & sticking with converting something using 8 numbering system due do this sentence: You may skip chow to work on this, but then it wouldn't get ate.

 

[SplshMtn99]

Was he Loaded when he decoded stuff????
That may help in this instance.

I don't know. lol
Think older guy. Smart. WWII.

I've solved some of this other caches & its always been a challenge with lots of googling to learn things like morse code & other "languages".

He's known for his puzzles.

So, are you guys geocachers?

 

[SplshMtn99]

The name of the cache do anything for anyone with regards to the dots?

 

[SplshMtn99]

Yes, octal (base 8). 4 + 4 = 10
http://bugclub.org/beginners/math/octal.html