Posted in Grow your own, In the news, Modest or alternative living, Neighborhoods on February 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Imagine you build a house out of local and renewable materials. And you build it only 500 square feet for the whole family, in walking distance of your job. The yard is big enough for a significant garden, and you raise chickens and hang your own laundry on a clothes line.
Nobody gives you a tax [...]
Posted in Remuddle, Vintage commercial, tagged 1975 fire at the Northern Hotel, fort collins and rainbows, men in plaid pants, white paint and urban renewal on February 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
It was on a February day just like this that the Northern Hotel burned in 1975. Things looked grim at the time, but there’s little in life a bucket of very white paint can’t fix.
Posted in Vintage commercial, tagged Chinese laundry, Griffiths Sporting Goods, Historic smoking and spitting, Men at Perennial Gardener in Fort Collins on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s face it, Sense of Place and its companion shop, Perennial Gardener, are chick heaven. But say you’re not into it. Like because you’re a guy or something. Here’s a little historic trivia to make your visit more poignant.
Posted in Neighborhoods, tagged churches on whedbee street, fort collins small churches, historic churches for sale on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Economies of scale aren’t just for factories and retail outlets. Here are a few others left behind by the big box explosion south of town.
Posted in Vintage commercial, tagged 216 Linden Street, book store for sale, Lost Fort Collins, old corner book shop on February 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
After 34 years in Fort Collins, the Old Corner Bookstore at 216 Linden will close on Friday. “This bookstore was my mother’s life,” Jane Tester’s daughter told me. She hopes to sell the building and all 23,000 used and rare volumes to someone who shares her mother’s passion.
