A couple months ago, Lost Fort Collins posted a story about 1970s band Cunningham Corner. That article sparked “a lot of e-mails and phone numbers … exchanged from countless friends of the band,” says Kevin Donnelly. Now, the band plans a reunion!
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Cunningham Corner Band plans reunion
Posted in Art on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lost Louis Armstrong
Posted in Art on November 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
If you’re new in town, you might not know about Louis Armstrong. He was a life-size statue on the stage in Old Town Square. Rocked off his foundation, he disappeared one night in 2001. What became of him? Still missing. I’m only bringing him up now because he came up in a conversation a year [...]
Cunningham Corner: A 1970s Fort Collins barn band
Posted in Art, Colorado State University, Grow your own, Modest or alternative living, Neighborhoods, tagged Cunningham Corner, Fort Collins art scene 1970s, Fort Collins Music Scene 1970s on October 13, 2009 | 53 Comments »
Cunningham Corner is a condo complex on the corner of Horsetooth and Shields in Fort Collins. It’s also the name on the yellow barn that sat at that corner before the condos (it’s since been declared a historic landmark and moved elsewhere). And in the 1970s, it was the name of one of the hottest bands in Fort Collins.
New mural for Beavers Market
Posted in Art, tagged beavers market, chris bates, fort collins mural art on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Work began today on a new mural for Beavers’ market. Artist Chris Bates, who’s painted transformer boxes (pdf) and other murals downtown, plans several panels along the west parking lot wall. Bates says he wanted to paint the street-facing east side, but quickly realized that the snow plows on North Shields Street leave piles of snow [...]
Polly Brinkhoff: The woman behind Whale Rock
Posted in Art on April 22, 2009 | 36 Comments »
If Hugh Everett was right, and I have parallel selves who fork every time I make a decision–somewhere, I hope one of me lives like Polly Brinkhoff. I imagine a life with more sun, music, sweat, and trees than money. I imagine a life of self-reliance, feral family, and urgent inspiration. A difficult life, but one [...]
Vintage safe at City Drug for sale
Posted in Art, Vintage commercial, tagged antique safe, Fort Collins City Drug Store, giant jar of drugs, old cosmetics sign on March 18, 2009 | 12 Comments »
City Drug in Old Town keeps its most extraordinary curiosity behind the counter where you can’t see it. And now this hidden treasure is for sale.
Pup tents, prayer flags, and the amazing glass dome
Posted in Art, Vintage commercial, tagged Fort Collins stained glass dome, historic glass dome in the Northern Hotel, Mountain Shop, Northern Hotel on March 8, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Recently, two readers who no longer live around here remembered the elegant glass dome at the Northern Hotel Ballroom. Is it still there? Yep. Here’s where to look.
Gargoyles and fish heads: Ft Collins' WPA fountain
Posted in Art, Municipal, tagged Art Deco WPA fountain, Denver's rejected art, Fort Collins fountain on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rejected by Denver, “negotiated” away from City Park, and all but absent from the internet. Our bitchen 1936 WPA fountain deserves better. Lostfortcollins dedicates a whole page to it.
Grotto
Posted in Art, tagged Fort Collins Municipal Power Plant, Historic grotto on December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have worked places that provided various nice amenities for lunch breaks. Volleyball nets, popcorn, jogging tracks, ping pong tables. But, nobody ever gave me a grotto.
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:
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