Lost & Preserved in Colorado Springs
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- Опубліковано 3 лют 2021
- From a wealthy, getaway tourist town, to a gold rush epicenter; to a tuberculosis respite, to the home of five military installations - the built landscape of Colorado Springs reflects its history of major industries and economic drivers. As the city celebrates 150 years, we revisit preserved, revitalized - and destroyed - iconic buildings. And ask: How can we create the future and honor the past?
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I lived in the springs since 66 now I'm in n.c.the changes I've seen aren't the changes I hoped for,enough said.
I love all your Rocky Mountain PBS programs! This one especially! To everyone that creates these Thank You!
This place has changed soooo much as a child I remember Academy Blvd was dirt road, Powers Blvd was two lanes , race tracks out east, dog races and the flea market at the same place, Austin Bluffs mall, Walmart on Platte was A Drive-in Theatre, man this place changes daily it’s so hard to take in sometimes!!
Thank you RMPBS!!
We moved to Colorado Springs in 1970 and lived in Village 7 until my mom bought a house off of Templeton Gap road. Acadamy Boulevard was the east side back then and still a two lane dirt road before it reached I-25. She got permission to go into the old Chief theatre to look around before they really started tearing it down and even got a few small parts of it. I still remember going through the tunnels and rooms under the old wooden stage....What an adventure that was!!!! Truly a shame so much of the wonderful history was torn down in the name of "progress"
This program is awesome and brought back a LOT of great memories for me......THANK YOU RMPBS!!!
History matters. love those old buildings.
Love the old pictures. I was born at the Air Force Academy in the 1960’s. My dad helped build NORAD and was also stationed at Ent and the Chidlaw building. Graduated from Taylor Elementary, North JHS, Mitchell HS, and UCCS. This will always be home. ♥️
Nice! I grew up on Montebello Dr (near Union), went to LA for college (and a shot at the movies) and BEE-LINED back here as fast as I could! Now I live a block away from Palmer Park (which I try to visit every day).
GOD, I love this city!
We moved there in 1970 when I was 10. Went to Grant elementary, Russell Jr High and graduated at Doherty High School 1977. then went to Denver for trade school. I always loved it there but it did become too big and expensive. Eventually moved to Woodland Park, Divide, and Finally Salida
@@sapulpaorganics5402 I actually pass Russell on the way to visiting my mother. Helen Keller's an awesome little park. I was really sad when they ripped out the old iron train playground (and the pirate-ship rudder-wheel) and replaced it with a modern "Safer" one.
My farther was transferred to Ent AFB in 1959 we left CS 3 years later but eventually we returned in '66 where my dad retired in '70 from Norad. My brother was also born at the Air force Academy. I went to Audubon elementary, Horace Mann.
Irving jr. and was class of '75 at Mitchell high.We lived On Lark Dr. from 66' to '70 and on Wynkoop Dr. later in the 70,s.
@@sapulpaorganics5402both of my brothers graduated from Doherty High School. Or 90 so I doubt you know him. He lives off Carefree and I'm drawing a blank I want to say was a Spanish name. Actual address was Wagonmaster.
Very good program, but I wanted more! Was too short! Great photos and video clips. Well-done to all involved, and thank you for what you do to preserve our history.
I grew up on E. Las Animas Street, and Prospect Lake was our swimming place. East of that was only prairie and cattle grazing. When I was 11 years old in 1965, we would go to Palmer Park lookout, and north of Palmer Park was nothing at all. The Cinema 70 at Platte and Chelton was the only building standing surrounded by empty fields. Newly constructed Academy and Platte overpass, way out in the countryside, had no traffic and it was so silent I could hear crickets. I miss my small hometown, and the prairie on the way to where I was born, Fort Carson, in 1954. There was rangeland and cattle grazing all the way there on highway 115 and no houses. Academy Boulevard was a two lane country road, again with cattle grazing on both sides of the road all the way up to the Dublin House on Dublin and Academy, which stood all by itself in the boondocks.
I got here in 2004 and loved it. I saw myself staying for a long time but now it it is time to go. I had always dreamed of living in CO but it it turning into CA. Planning my move out within two years.
Moving away in April! Worse than CA in that it feels completely unplanned. Good luck on your move! So excited for mine.
Yep... they've turned it into CA
Who’s behind the continuing wanton destruction of our whole city blocks, in order to put up tall, monstrous, monotone, rectangular boxes, obscuring vistas to the mountains? Whose pockets are bulging with the continuous loss of COS’s beautiful, human-scaled, character filled buildings? Poor COS!
The antlers used to be beautiful they shoudve kept the second building the new antlers hotel is a abomination
@@Cheesusrice69222 if only the one (or two) didn’t burn down 😢
Sick of it! We are turning into a little Denver.
The block at S Tejon & Costilla was recently razed of its character buildings in order to put up a 9 story, characterless rectangular box. $$$$$$$
The Colorado Springs urban cookie cutter sprawl is amazing. Its just keeps going. Very little of Colorado Springs is worth seeing.
This is a wonderful program showing the changes in Colorado Springs and some of the great architecture that was lost with urban renewal. We have lost a lot of our history and finally learned a lesson almost too late. I have looked at some of the old maps when Colorado Springs was a small town and how it has grown in recent times.
Lesson not learned - still tearing down whole street blocks of historic buildings. This city is going to turn into Denver.
@@Mistydazzle since when and where?
Denver's renewal was incredibly successful and it accommodatesd existing historical structures. The area around Coors Field was a sithole, nothing of value was lost there. Lofts scatter the Downtown Denver area. Those are built in historic buildings. The facade of all these places is unchanged. Colorado Springs is in quite a different situation. I've lived in both places for a significant amount of time, and you really can't compare them at all.
Most beautiful Town ever most beautiful city ever my favorite hometown in the world Colorado springs
The TB huts would make great tiny homes
Wonderful program. I remember when they tore down so many of the old buildings down town. It was heart breaking. I remember going to the Chief Theater as a kid. It was so beautiful. I just couldn’t believe they tore it down. I’m glad there were some buildings saved!
They did the same thing in Denver. Destroy the old to make room for parking lots
@@farmyardflavours It's so sad. We can never replace those beautiful buildings. :(
Still happening, right now!
@@Mistydazzle that makes me sad!
If the original plans were still available, I'd love to see some budding neo-retroist (if that's not a thing, then it should be!) rebuild it elsewhere.
Colorado Springs is my hometown. I moved away in July 1972. I lived through the tragic demolition of some of its beautiful structures---most notably the beautiful Antlers Hotel and the Chief Theater. At the time we were appalled and angered by their destruction, and what was put up in their place was NOT an improvement---even to this day. Even the Hidden Inn in the Garden of the Gods is gone---a lovely structure that blended seamlessly into its natural surroundings. The downtown shopping district is also gone---including my favorite---the Chinook Bookshop. Now they are even building homes up the sides of the Front Range in Pike National Forest. Back in 1971-72, there were placards saying "Don't Californicate Colorado Springs." That is precisely what has been done.
I, too, grew up in the 60's and early 70's in Colorado Springs. I remember my parents lamenting the tearing down of the iconic buildings, and the businesses moving away from the center of town to what then were the outskirts. The tremendous growth of the city has made the city one that I now avoid because so much of the town has been overcome by typical construction that you can find anywhere across the country. Unfortunately, economics of the preservation of the past and the desire for newer and safer places have become the norm. We do not value the past, especially in architecture, and our primary focus is on safety and ecology. My memories of Colorado Springs now are sweeter than what remains there. I guess my memories are colored by nostalgia.
Thank you
, I watch Colorado Experience on RMPBS every Thursday . I am born and raised in our glorious city known as Colorado Springs . I found this episode particularly engaging . Blessing every body :)
I’m from Colorado Springs and I feel like it’s turning into California. I see a lot of California tags and Texas tags and all of a sudden we have in n out burger? Not to mention it’s getting expensive to live here.
Colorado Springs is a city and California is a state, no comparison.
Also this video is about historical buildings in Colorado Springs, not out of state tags and fast food chains
@@nobrang5146 no I know what a state and a city is , im just saying I feel like Colorado Springs in general is turning into California.
Keep your eye out for Weinerschnitzels too. At least two are planned for the Springs, Austin Bluffs will have one completed by August of this year. Now, imo if they really want to bring some good food from Cali to here.. please for the love of all that is descent I wish they bring Round Table Pizza. God I miss it lol..
Keeps getting worse and worse !
@@nobrang5146 😅🤣 I grew up in Colorado Springs 1954-1970 when I went away to college. I live on Los Angeles now. He's right. I look at what's happened in tge Springs, watch Antifa chasing people, etc and yep, Colorado Springs has become California.
Fascinating. PBS always does a great job on their documentaries and this is no exception.
I can't like this video enough. Amazing video!
Another masterpiece production of Rocky Mountain Public Media!! THANK YOU.
One encouraging note from this documentary was the mention of Lowell School. A nice example of stone architecture, my great-grandfather's company built it. I am glad it was preserved. Other buildings he built- Hagerman Hall for example, did not fare so well.
This was a wonderful short documentary about my Hometown thank you
The way some beautiful architectural buildings in the springs got torn down was just sad especially considering how much work the founders and what not put into making the springs a beautiful city
Interesting, I've lived here over 10 years and didn't know a lot of this. Really enjoyed the old pics and videos, thanks.
Such an awesome video! THANK YOU!!
Let’s keep the Colorado Springs in Colorado Springs!
The spring s.....
Too late for that. I saw on the news what Antifa did and other things. Cringe. 😖
Just help a couple move out of their house on 7th street it was built back in 1899 beautiful house with so much history.
I love my town of Colorado Springs
"All zipcodes, check in!"
"80918, standing by!"
I did not know how big the tuberculosis industry was, and a lot of the other info was great and informative. Very good documentary!
I love learning about my home town.
I sure miss my hometown!
Urban renewal, a misnomer of terms in my opinion. All of the historical buildings torn down, just tears me up, makes me mad as hell. I hate what they did to the downtown area. I look at the old pictures and say wow, that looks awesome. I cannot stand 60's and 70's architecture, which replaced the turn of the century Victorian style architecture. I often wonder, WTH was going through peoples mind in that time area.
Exactly how I feel too
Yes, very sad indeed
Developers influenced policy makers/politicians and made so much money in demolition and re-construction of plain boxes. Making money was what was going through their minds!
Loved the documentary. Good job.
Lived there from 1964-67. I went back to visit in June '19 and saddened at all the changes. The downtown is gone now (many other reasons all over the country) with only hipster coffee shows and panhandlers. At 13:33 is my old school, St Mary's. Now a parking lot. My afternoon paper route was along the houses in the ground, which are still there. One thing that brought a smile to my face was retracing my to school walk (lived on Weber St, the building also gone) was a slab of concrete on N. Tejon St reading "1961". I imagine before long that will be gone...
I remember St. Mary's. My neighbor, Tim Murray was Catholic and went there. We lived over on Alamo Avenue 1 block West of Wood Avenue. You delivered newspapers? Did you deliver for the Gazette Telegraph owned by my other neighbors the Hoiles family. I did once in a while when Tim couldn't. I got a dollar
They tore down South Jr HS which had a history of producing great athletes and musicians. They bused in students from Peterson Field. (My first glimpse of the most beautiful girl I had ever seen and later became my girlfriend. RIP Beverly Minis. For the Black people surrounding that neighborhood it tore our hearts out. We had no idea that the forces at work had us as a target for years. This program makes a lot of sense now. I live in Denver now and they too had to create a Preservation Society as they were known fore tearing down historic structures. When I go back to visit I try not to look at the Police Station that replaced the only haven we had in a very conservative city. We all just scattered and left or ended up in the jails that replaced the only home we knew outside of our own. An older school was right beside us that was not as diverse as one might think but it was preserved and still stands but is a nice building structure. I was there in 1971-73.
I agree! I went to South and Palmer. South was a great place of unity for folks of all colors and backgrounds. My Dad went there as well. As a musician, I will always look back fondly of my years there and the great friends I made. It breaks my heart that unrestricted growth has become the #1 goal of Colorado Springs leaders.
I loved South Junior High, the students and the faculty and the wonderful, loving camaraderie we had. Going to Helen Hunt, South and Palmer my sophomore year, I loved growing up in the most warm, friendly neighborhood of Hillside. We were mostly Black and Hispanic, as they segregated us then, but it was the happiest time. What was miserable was having to go to another school (Mitchell HS) where I didn't know anyone, because of busing. I took solace in the music program, where I excelled so that made up for it in a small way.
I went to North Junior High School 1963-66. Because of it's location we were lucky to have a mix of upper middle class Wite kids from my neighborhood and Blacks and Hispanics from further south. Between North Junior and Palmer High after that I didn't know there was a racial divide until I got to college at which point I wondered, "What the f*ck." I don't know what South Junior was like, but I treasure those innocent years when we were thrown together and got along.
Such a great video you guys wish it was longer!!!! Had me begging for more, brovo everyone involved.
Love the Springs! Wish I could afford to live there. 💕
As someone that lives here, me too! In all seriousness, our cheaper "bad parts of town" are, actually, still very decent to live.
Hi, do you mind me asking where u currently live now? 🙂
It's honestly not that expensive as long as you're on the south eastern 3/4 of the city
@@Drivingdrew719 How much you make an hour there and how many people you live with.
Wow a lot cheaper than I thought. Denver is expensive.
Saddest story ever told.
Growing up in the Springs, I remember going to many seen here in this video.
Your name rings a bell, but I think you're younger than me. I graduated Palmer 1970
@P Taylor
Harrison, 81.
I'm the youngest of six. My eldest sisters also graduated from Harrison in 70 and 72.
I did have a few cousins that graduated from Palmer in the early 70s. Their last name was Duncan. All girls
I moved to CS in 1980, raised my kids here, and now my grandkids are here. We’re trying to figure out how to pull up our roots and move elsewhere.
Our city leaders , primarily real estate developers, have turned CS into a big city with big city problems - crime, congestion, pollution, “ghettos, homeless (aka “drug”) camps. Really all of Colorado’s front range has gone to he**. Guess they call that “progress”.
WOW, very sorry to hear that. I grew up there in the "70's" and graduated from Doherty High School in "77" Powers Blvd was a dirt road, and Academy was a two lane dirt road on the north end where it met I-25. My mother used to love eating at the Dublin house back when there were only a few houses in that area and it was still a dirt road. They used to have peacocks there too. It really is a shame what greedy and money can do to some beautiful places.
Was born here, 3rd generation. This place is going down the drain fast. California 2.0.
gonna watch from Florida
I'm an implant. Been here off & on since '95. I've seen some changes & a lot of growth. Furthermore this all but confirms what I've been saying for decades. That being, if it weren't for the tourism, military, colleges & Christian institutions, this town wouldn't be as big as it is...
Still, I'm amazed at how much more it's still growing.
Really neat video!
Great video! This only makes me wish we didn't have to move away :( (priced out in this crazy housing market)
May whoever the people are, who ordered and saw to the destruction of the original Ute Theater, rot in you-know-where. While the Flying W's late Russ Wolfe made a valiant attempt to save some of the theaters internal trappings (chandeliers and lighting scones) by reequipping his now fire-destroyed steak house with same, the Waldo Canyon fire finished off what was left. Colorado Springs could have saved the Ute but it chose to put its need for parking spaces above the need to preserve its storied history.And the Ute is a drop in the bucket, as this remarkable documentary shows. All those architectural gems, gone forever.
Colorado Springs Co has gone through a lot of things here I should know I was born here. I'm a native.
They left out the Electronics industry that came and went in the '80s and '90s.
When I was growing up in the Springs in the 50s, the three movie theaters were the Ute, Chief, and Peak Theaters.
Me, too!
And we still had drive-ins
@@ptaylor4923 O yes! I had forgotten those and don't remember the names. Speaking of places, do you remember Burger In A Basket? Michelle's candy store downtown, or Patsy's salt water taffy?
@@judyjones5089 Burger n a basket & Patsey's. I hear the Chinook Book Store is gone 😥
@@judyjones5089 The Starlight Drive-In
rip chief theater.
*"Colorado PBS - Award Worthy"*
The various PBS Historical Productions of People, Places, and Architecture, including "Colorado Experience", are such Worthy works and so well done, *I would expect they have or should be, recognized for their various Values, with a number of Awards, from Film to History.*
I've yet to find but 1 other state that even compares. (Wyoming has a varied series). Maybe there are more, but I haven't found them, and you would think that each state would create a series around the theme(s).
Tennessee has a potential, but this state is literally 3 in 1 and it really shows up in a subject like this.
Knoxville is in East TN (the University is there) and they really overlook Middle and particularly West TN
Middle (Nashville, State Capital). West (Memphis), and this state has vast History.
Middle TN is absolutely gorgeous, and I reside in N-West TN, close to the Mississippi River.
Odd attitudes in this State, but the land is beautiful and abundant in resources.
Colorado has a much Higher Minded, Optimistic, and Positive energy/attitude, *"keep that momentum",* it reflects Wisdom.
*Great Work, Colorado PBS!*
Looking forward to the program!
Now all along the front range, there is trash and homeless people. A wonderful program to remind people of what we are losing.
Agreed, we need to care for the poor and clean our streets and reduce pollution
Yeah thanks to all the Californians bringing their politics here. We are becoming the new L.A
@@codyk.8104 I see FAR, FAR more Texans flooding here. It's not even close. We like to b-tch about Californians, but honestly, it's Texas who's really f-cking up the Front Range.
@@codyk.8104El Paso county is literally one of the reddest areas in the country. Any problems you have in the past currently or the near future can be chalked up to the GOP. You do know that right? You do understand the political demographics of the Springs? It's going to take quite a large influx of Californians to flip political demographics in El Paso County. It will take decades. So for now oh, you know who to blame.
It's time to start demolishing track shacks built along Powers, Marksheffel, and in Falcon.
Sad to see that architecture and history dissolved..
As many in OUR new world..bummer on an unmeasured scale..
Sad that old Antlers hotel got torn down. The “new” one is not nearly as elegant
When I was a young child my family and I went to many times to the chief theater
such a beautiful theater and history of being an opera house what a disgrace for it to
be tore down… I also remember the second antlers hotel and thought it was disgraceful
even as a child for it to be replaced by a box..
Penny Taylor here. Sounds like we were there at the same time
I wish the springs still had trolleys.
I’m incredibly homesick 😭
Traveltangs and the "Pikes Peak" ice cream sundae. The Village Inn. Ent Air Force Base. Antlers Hotel. Peterson Field.
The rich just noticed how much money they could make and came here to profit even though it cost them money
How are you any better now?
They made oodles of those huts for those with TB. Couldn’t they make them again for the homeless?
The Farmer family, The Payton family, The Benjamin Brown family.
Do Pueblo next 😂
Have you seen what Pueblo looked like 100 years ago? It was a very vibrant city back then
And they continue to destroy!
Any haunted ones?
I have a 1928 vehicle that belonged to mr. Aultman from aultman’s studio. Title has the adress where he lived. If someone is interested its for sell.
The fine arts center is a bunch of blocks 😂
Ah, but they're _artistic_ blocks!.....could be worse: it could be The Pants, or that building that looks like a toilet.
I know it's ugly as hell lmao
@@somedandy7694 that would be interesting at least
Colorado Springs has tons of money and downtown is horrible let me design lol
It's a nice city, but becoming so expensive that a dumpy one bedroom apartment can go for $1200 a month. Soon this place will be a city of only homeless vagrants and millionaires.
It's so crazy!! I'm trying to find homes for buyers and it's tough!
We have the flood of incoming Texans to thank for that. Along with it comes the monotony of monoculture, where the wild, rustic, adventurous spirit of the West that was once Colorado is now just the exact same fast food, shops, architecture, and style you could find in, say, Tulsa. There's no consideration for any unique cultural personality to Colorado Springs; it's just "where can we cram more townhomes to fit in more people moving here who want the same restaurant chains and Wal-Marts they knew back home?"
As well as California’s, it’s till cheaper then there and the quality of life is higher, but that drives up everything for us!
Texans?! Try Californians and New Yorkers! Just yesterday, I met another person who proudly told me they had moved here from New York! They destroyed their states with their stupid Democrat voting habits, and then move to another state when they don’t like the way things turn out, and then vote Democrat again!
Montrose
Soon. I'm thinking maybe a Summer visit? Got any off-leash dog parks/trails?
people have been there for eons? really? that is so inaccurate
For every dislike this video gets...a Denverite sneers down their nose and goes "Ew! Colorado _Springs!_ "
Denvrite here. I didn't sneer. To be completely honest oh, we don't ever think about you in Denver. Our feelings towards you are indifferent. You might as well be another state down there. Take care.
0:32 maybe dont base our values on the past. You know, racism and such which was rampant in colorado back then and still somehow manages to persist to this day.
Aww Colorado...home to most of the biggest financial criminal minds in America
Umm, no that'd be NYC, DC, or CA. weird comment.
Yeah and most of those criminal minds are the heads of churches. Your priests and deacons. Out here molestin children and stealing money from all these morons that believe their lies. What a world!
this is so fucked up
You lost me at 16:00
Such a shame you had to go woke
Addressing racism is not a bad thing. If that makes you so uncomfortable, that's your problem, and it probably means that you're a racist. Our tolerance for your intolerance is growing thin. Life can't be exactly how you want it. Only a child would think that way.
They failed to mention the history of racism that is deeply ingrained in Colorado Springs.
nigga you are the racist
Actually they did, you just missed it.
It'd be cool if whites could pronounce the native tribes names properly...
@@loopnugz1663 it'd be cool if you weren't triggered by the request of the smallest amount of respect.
@@iank1130 nigga YOU need to pronounce ALL names correctly you little racist
Colorado Springs has approximately 484,000 people in the city limits and over 3/4 of a million people in the metro area.
Only one way.... You're the antis. No one but you can stand you or would 😉. Over compensation
Fake 🤥 and the rotten version
The bad part of historical preservation is , you already missed most of it. 🫤
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