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 »
Meet the Rommels
Posted in Modest or alternative living, Preservation and renewal, Vernacular buildings, tagged Lewis Wickes Hine in Fort Collins, Then and now photos on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In 1915, Lewis Wickes Hine came to Fort Collins for a day as part of a project to document child labor in America. He photographed the Rommel house at 430 N. Loomis. It was boarded up in this October photo because the family was away harvesting beets. They would return to Fort Collins in the [...]
Too much, farkled bus
Posted in In the news, Modest or alternative living, tagged art car, william shatner in art on July 30, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Maggie Kunze’s farkled bus is about 3 feet over the line. That is, the property line over which the people next door want to build a privacy fence. And according to Kunze, they want to build the fence so nobody will have to look at her bus anymore. But Kunze says the bus isn’t going [...]
Lick and stick brick: Asphalt siding in Fort Collins
Posted in Modest or alternative living, Vernacular buildings, tagged cheap siding, gentrification fort collins, rolled asphalt siding on March 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Thanks to the remodeling boom, there aren’t as many homes left with rolled asphalt siding. Lost Fort Collins gives a shout out to our old lick and stick brick heritage.
Besides breweries and bicycles: The Romero house
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 [...]
That guy who lived in a car?
Posted in Modest or alternative living, tagged Fort Collins hermit, historic homelessness in Larimer County, living in a car in LaPorte Colorado, Wesley Young on January 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In a bigger city, Wesley would have been a nameless homeless guy, an addled WWII vet with an inconsistent story. But this is Fort Collins, so the papers wrote stories and people worried about him.
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 »
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, [...]
Children who work
Posted in Art, Modest or alternative living, Neighborhoods, tagged Andersonville, child labor, children in fort collins, colonias, historic fort collins, Lewis Wickes Hines, Rockwood Place school, sugar beets, Vine street on September 27, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I think any parent of a modern adolescent finds those pictures of child laborers in the early 20th century intriguing horrifying. Just horrifying. Yet, we marvel at what a 12-year-old could do if he had to. He could walk 8 blocks. He could stay off the couch most of the day. He could work a [...]
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 | 20 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 [...]
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