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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Quonset hut!
Posted in Quonset hut, Vernacular buildings, tagged 1940s, CSU, fort collins, franks trout farm, jefferson, kit house, Quonset hut, Quonset hut house, riverside, swetsville zoo, veterans village on August 13, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Pickle factory
Posted in Vintage commercial, tagged fort collins, mulberry, pickle factory, riverside on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This building at Riverside and Mulberry, right as you drive into downtown, used to be the Western Food Products Co. pickle factory. “Destroyed in an arson-caused fire May 29th, 1990,” says the Triangle Review, our previous alt-weekly. I recall that until recently there was more left of it, but I can’t find a recent picture. I always thought [...]
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