Tag Archives: Old Colorado City

How to discuss the “mosque rule” at the Powwow… Suggestions?

The Powwow will be September 25 at Rock Ledge Ranch, “technically” according to the West Side Pioneer, local newsletter, a part of the Garden of the Gods. Which is a sacred site for American Indians. The same people who put … Continue reading

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Re-enacting and Celebrating Genocide… Just Like Skokie…

As immortalized in the classic Film “The Blues Brothers” where a group of dim-wits put on Historically Authentic Military Uniforms (of the SchutzStaffel) and marched through a largely Jewish suburb of Chicago. So, on Territory Days, can those of us … Continue reading

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Wild West on the Old West Side

I ran across this snapshot I took a couple years ago, a favorite moment in this otherwise urban/suburban area. The trolley tracks are gone, even the railroad and inclines are gone, but someone’s still riding their horse to Daylight Donuts.

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Workers of the World in Colorado City

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Zebulon Pike was an Illegal Alien (In the No Hater Zone)

posted this on Craigslist… Date: 2008-05-25, 1:31AM MDT Just to remind people, since the Old Colorado City Territory Days celebration of colonialism and Imperialism is going on… Young Lieutenant Pike, and his merry crew of saboteurs, spies and setup crew … Continue reading

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Sand Creek No Gun Ri

This morning will be the dedication of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The headline of today’s Gazette? “One man’s battle” about whether the 1864 slaughter was a massacre or a battle, and reporting the re-release of a 1925 … Continue reading

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More on the St Patricks Day parade

Why did a group of people with the non-confrontational message of “PEACE” deserve to be kicked out of a local parade and then blamed for the disruption? We were gathering with the same green shirts, some peace flags and a … Continue reading

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John O’Donnell, the city’s organizer of St Patrick’s Day parade, now caught in his own lies and hypocrisy

John O’Donnell says that his ‘rules’ prohibit social statements from being made by participants, so he had to have city police assault pro peace parade participants and then have us expelled from the parade. John and the City of Colorado … Continue reading

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade peace infiltration

(Sarah, Mimi, Amy, Evie, Lara, Ryan, Devon, Marie, David, Peter, Diann, Amber)   Our peaceful infiltration of the Old Colorado City St. Patricks Day Parade was great fun. We had to scale back our original plans for using the Peace … Continue reading

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The Old Colorado City fire of ‘02

December 5, 2002, a personal account, see Waycott Opera House for media photographs. 7 AM Early on Tuesday morning in sleepy Old Colorado City, a Channel 13 news crew met with Sue Seabolt in her Hand Carved Candles Shop to … Continue reading

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Eric among Gazette Top Ten Innovators

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The Waycott Opera House of Colorado City

The Waycott Building was built in 1901 at the corner of 5th and Colorado, two blocks north of the Colorado Midland Railway Depot. Its first occupants were the First National Bank, Stewart & Tiger Bicycles in the basement, and the … Continue reading

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