Besides the rain, I enjoyed competing in the scavenger hunt with my team [Team 4], and we got so close to winning! Having very little knowledge about NYC theater history, I knew that I was going to have to Google every clue, and my phone’s battery would have to be 100%. Other than guidance from Google, Ralph S. was a great team leader, he knew a lot of the answers, and is the reason why we were the first team to get to 42nd, and post on Twitter.

One thing learned about theater history in NYC from the scavenger hunt, most of it is located around Midtown. It is also where all the tourist’s are, so as a native New Yorker/ Brooklynite I’ve never cared much about the area, and I still don’t care to an extent. I don’t really go to the theater, and so until taking this class I didn’t really acknowledge how much history gets overshadowed by the bright lights and consumerism.

Thinking back at he scavenger hunt, nothing really surprised me. I feel like i didn’t really absorb what I learned, because I was mostly focused on finding answers and taking pictures.

The most interesting thing that that I learned about was Theater Row, which we used for the clue for a off-broadway theater. I never heard of it, and they looked really small, so i looked it up on Wikipedia, and learned a bit about it’s history.

I can’t say the whole scavenger hunt was fun, there were points when I was over it, and really tired of racing against the clock. There were times when I felt like it was impossible to get to 12 points, but we did! It was possible, with help from the other teams posts, because of them I realized what we may have missed  🙂 Team 4 got to 20 points.