Lost Fort Collins just posted a new page (see the tabs above): “Tour de neighborhood markets.” It’s a suggested bike tour of >15 former grocery stores in old town that are now mostly just peoples’ funny-looking houses. Some people say that neighborhood markets faded when big supermarkets came to town. But that’s not entirely true. [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Tour of historic neighborhood grocery stores
Posted in Neighborhoods, Vintage commercial, tagged bike ride fort collins, charvats, corner store, cultural tourism, emma malabys, fort collins, neighborhood markets, safeway on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Vintage house eaten alive!
Posted in Neighborhoods, tagged fort collins, gentrification, historic preservation, remuddle, vintage house on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Vintage playground
Posted in Municipal, Neighborhoods, tagged ayers natural bridge, buckeye community center, city park, fort collins, merry go round, playground safety, poudre park community center, vintage playground on August 23, 2008 | 12 Comments »
There used to be one exactly like this in City Park, in the 50s, says my friend Norm. He would know–he grew up right across the street. Today, you have to look hard to find retro playground equipment. I’ve already seen City Park replace its heavy plastic sets 3 times in the past 12 years. But before the plastics, before 1970s wood [...]
Quonset hut!
Posted in Quonset hut, Vernacular buildings, tagged 1940s, CSU, fort collins, franks trout farm, jefferson, kit house, Quonset hut, Quonset hut house, riverside, swetsville zoo, veterans village on August 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This town is awash in Quonset huts. Funny thing: You can live here for decades and not even notice. Like, most of us can remember a Q-hut on Riverside Avenue as you drive into town. But in fact, it’s a row of FOUR Q-huts (technically on Jefferson). See: (Okay, maybe you don’t see. Q1 is distant, [...]
Basement houses
Posted in Modest or alternative living, Vernacular buildings, tagged 1920s, basement house, fort collins, history, interest-only mortgage, northern colorado, Vine street on August 9, 2008 | 21 Comments »
To be honest, when we had basement houses, they used to make me look away. As a girl coming from a part of the country that had no basements, I thought these roof-on-a-foundation homes reminded me too much of those legless men on skateboards in Tijuana. Interesting, really interesting. But you don’t want to gawk. So I [...]
Ghost sign revealed!
Posted in Art, Vintage commercial on August 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The demolition of the buildings on the Farmers Insurance (see previous post) lot has revealed a Pepsi ghost sign on the side of the Food Coop. I wonder if that’s going to be a problem for them. It’s only half there, but the half that’s there looks fresh compared to our other faded signs (note Champion sign 2 [...]
Milk truck incident
Posted in Grow your own, Vintage commercial, tagged dairy, fort collins, milk truck, morning fresh on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The milk man took the corner too fast and a crate of full bottles flew off his truck–right onto my street. Some neighbors came out to help clean up. Some just came out to take pictures for their blog.
Trouble at the frat house
Posted in Colorado State University, Neighborhoods on August 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sigma alpha epsilon at CSU lost its charter. I think it was for getting teenage girls drunk–like, go to the emergency room drunk. Now the 1926 frat house is being replaced with something else, says the Coloradoan. See those crumbling walls beside the stair? They used to hold the golden lions. And sometimes those lions were [...]
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