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.
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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 »
Better days at the frat house
Posted in Colorado State University, Neighborhoods on June 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
In one of Lost Fort Collins’ earliest posts, I talked about the Sigma house on Laurel. The boys lost their charter afterserving alcohol to young girls during a party. Gossip around town said they would paint those lions at the entry stairs red to signal when a brother had bagged a virgin. The old house [...]
Fort Collins 1952: The CSU Homosexual Music Department Scandal
Posted in Colorado State University, tagged Fort Collins gays, Gays at Colorado State University, Treatment of gays in the 1950s on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Funny how some scandals and characters become part of the local canon, retold in the Senior Voice and “I remember when …” columns year after year. But others never pass the quaint test, no matter how much time passes. Which is why you’ve probably never heard of the CSU’s 1952 music department.
CSU: Stray balls and foul hippies
Posted in Colorado State University on May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Dear Reader, Norm Cook, whose memories make up much of the content of Lost Fort Collins, tells me that he got his first speeding ticket from a judge with your name.
Pandemics in Fort Collins and Larimer County
Posted in Colorado State University, In the news, tagged 1918 flu epidemic in larimer county, fort collins influenza, larimer county poor farm on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Who died in the 1918 influenza epidemic in Larimer County? It wasn’t the elderly and sickly, as you might expect.
Fort Collins Festivals: Pristine femininity at Colorado State University
Posted in Annual events, Colorado State University on April 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fort Collins adds one or two festivals to its calendar every year. Music, warm beer, sticky food. But for beauty and grace, none match the May Fete at CSU in the 1920s–an annual display of “pristine femininity.” ”From the shrubbery, the fairies stole forth…Pan and his dancing nymphs, the four winds, moonbeams, and Neptune’s [...]
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 | 4 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.
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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