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Andy Warhol befriends local cow
Real pop art in Fort Collins? You betcha! An Andy Warhol soup can is now on display 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...
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Grotto
I have worked places that gave us nice amenities on the grounds: Volleyball nets, jogging tracks, etc. But nobody does grottos anymore. People used to get them; for example, if you worked at Fort...
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Gargoyles and fish heads: Ft Collins' WPA fountain
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 here.
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Pup tents, prayer flags, and the amazing glass dome
In a recent letter to the Lost Fort Collins blog, Karen Schaefer, a reporter in Ohio and a former Colorado resident writes: One place I recall was an old hotel downtown. I think it may have been a...
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Vintage safe at City Drug for sale
City Drug, 1967 City Drug, on the corner of Mountain and College since 1967, is the best kind of anachronism. Not a horse-drawn carriage, striped sticks of candy by the refurbished antique cash...
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Polly Brinkhoff: The woman behind Whale Rock
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...
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New mural for Beavers Market
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...
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Cunningham Corner: A 1970s Fort Collins barn band
Cunningham Corner is a condo complex on the corner of Horsetooth and Shields in Fort Collins. It’s also the name on the barn that sat at that corner before the condos (the barn has since been declared...
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Lost Louis Armstrong
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...
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Cunningham Corner Band plans reunion
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...
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