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If you live in a neighborhood you love, and you worry about monster houses taking over, you should know what’s happening over on Park Street.

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Fort Collins recently found the area around College, just south of Prospect, blighted. It includes ChuckECheese, Dairy Queen, and early strip malls. The area in the photo above is behind the strip malls. It was a trailer park, but it took the worst of the 1997 flood (several residents drowned trying to leave) and the [...]

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From a 1956 Chamber of Commerce brochure.  (Of course, the “land area” argument was lost when Alaska was admitted to the union 3 years later. Let’s try not to be bitter when Sarah gets here on Monday, okay?)

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Fort Collins is kind of uncool.  I don’t mean like bitter, mean, no fun uncool. I mean like we don’t have any cool googie architecture –that 50s/60s atomic boomerang look. We have a little bit, and we used to have a little bit more:   But we don’t have any googie in all the places you would [...]

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 In 1984, Fort Collins paid local artist, Richard Scorpio, $2000 to transform a dead tree in front of City Hall into a contemporary statue. Dance formation was here to “demonstrate the concept of art in public places.”  Ceremonies followed. 20 years later, however, the piece moved into a patch of weeds at Martinez Park. I don’t think there was [...]

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 Lost Fort Collins just posted a new page (see the tabs above): “Tour de neighborhood markets.” It’s a suggested bike tour of >15 former grocery stores in old town that are now mostly just peoples’ funny-looking houses. Some people say that neighborhood markets faded when big supermarkets came to town. But that’s not entirely true. [...]

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There used to be one exactly like this in City Park, in the 50s, says my friend Norm. He would know–he grew up right across the street. Today, you have to look hard to find retro playground equipment.  I’ve already seen City Park replace its heavy plastic sets 3 times in the past 12 years. But before the plastics, before 1970s wood [...]

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This town is awash in Quonset huts. Funny thing: You can live here for decades and not even notice. Like, most of us can remember a Q-hut on Riverside Avenue as you drive into town. But in fact, it’s a row of FOUR Q-huts (technically on Jefferson).  See: (Okay, maybe you don’t see. Q1 is distant, [...]

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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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