The Green Bay Packers trailer home doesn’t belong on a Lost blog so much as a Hard-to-find blog. It’s hidden in plain site on our busiest street. I think it’s symbolic of our tremendous tolerence. Because if you painted up your trailer home in Bronco Blue and Orange and perched it above mainstreet Wisconsin, [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Hidden Fort Collins: Green Bay Packers trailer
Posted in Modest or alternative living, tagged Bronco baiting, decorated trailer homes, Green Bay Packers fans in Fort Collins on November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
"You're a jerk": Then and now
Posted in In the news, tagged bicycles in old town fort collins, bikes on the sidewalks in fort collins on November 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It used to be a lot easier to tell people what you were thinking.
Fort Collins' shotgun houses
Posted in Vernacular buildings, tagged carpenter house, colorado condors, shotgun house, vultures on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
More common in New Orleans, these houses are less than 12′ across, designed for good airflow, and arranged so you can shoot a shotgun straight through from the front door to the back door.
11 Lost Fort Collins businesses
Posted in Quonset hut, Vintage commercial, tagged sonnoform, the finest records on November 18, 2008 | 102 Comments »
As I research historic Fort Collins, I come across pictures and advertisements for stores I wish I could visit. Except for #6, all were gone before I got here. If you know more about these places or want to contribute your own favorite lost businesses please write!
Andy Warhol befriends local cow
Posted in Art, Colorado State University, Famous people, tagged andy warhol in fort collins, artists and cows, bruce conway, campbells soup can, Colorado State University art, CSU University Center for the arts, history of irony at CSU, John Denver and Andy Warhol, Museum Cache, pop art in fort collins on November 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Real pop art in Fort Collins? You betcha! An Andy Warhol soup right in front of the old high school on Remington. See? We’re not a bunch of hicks.
Here’s how we got the lawn art:
Seriously wide streets
Posted in Colorado State University, tagged 1964 Fort Collins, Betram Wyatt Brown, Brown Palace, Colorado State University history, Fort Collins midcentury history, IHOP, Morgan Library, where renewal is a way of life, wide streets narrow minds on November 14, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Nobody articulates the cultural oppression of mid-century Fort Collins better than the unfortunate Bertram Wyatt Brown, a Baltimore academic who took his first job in 1964 at Colorado State University.
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