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| the lost city of COLORADO SPRINGS.................. |
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| General William Jackson Palmer, father of Colorado Springs endowed the city with a countless list of gifts. If Colorado College isn't a good enough start, how about Monument Valley Park or Palmer (get it?) Park. As a part of Monument Valley Park General Palmer (a true Civil War hero)directed to have built a stratigraphic representation of the various geologic layers beneath the Pikes Peak region. |
| Follow Fontanero until it ends at Monument Valley Park. Walk west about 500' and find the steps leading to a sitting bench. It overlooks the Geologic Strata below. While you're at it why not pick up a few of the beer cans. There's a barrel right at the parking area. |
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| boys and girls, if you'll recall our earlier mention (page 1) of a 'woodpecker preserve' on Mesa Rd.... well just walk around the corner onto Walnut Street and see our nominee for Creepiest House for Hallowe'en. . Also interesting was a wall panel used to close up a missing window---the topic is obviously, WOODPECKERS-----the verse at the bottom was illegible. Like the Mesa Road home, this one APPEARS to be vacant...but WHO KNOWS what evil may lurk within its rotting and forgotten skeleton???????????????????? WAH, AH, AH!!!!!!! |
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| Ah, to live the life of the "noble savage". It became trendy among 18th century's French elite to live as the peasants did. Jean Jacques-Rousseau professed that the noble savage (American Indian)lived most free due to the lack of modern constraints. Thus many French built, and lived in (at least for a day or so) small rude huts. One of the most notorious was built on the grounds of Versailles for Marie Antoinette. Sacre bleu, while the aristocracy was patronizing the poor, a revolution was brewing. Ah, but we digress my pigeon....this North End oddity is tucked on the backlot of a North Cascade "starter castle" . |
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| " Let them eat twigs............." |
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| Sic transit gloria mundi......... |
| The former home of Jimmie Burns, plumber and owner of the Portland Mine ($60 Million) at 1315 Wood Avenue, heart of "Millionaire's Row". Like most of us, it's a shadow of it's former self, now an apartment house, once the site of boistrous and extravagant parties at the turn of a different century, different world. Somewhere along the line Collies became a symbol of "The Burns" and many likenesses adorn the grounds (see blue arrow locating Collie) |
| The lovely carved fence posts are rotting and lean like drunken sailors. Ironically the rules for renters allow for cats but no dogs....sorry Mr. Collie. |
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| "Woodpecker Preserve" over here on Mesa |
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