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The Way it Was: A podpast

The Way it Was: A podpast

37 Episodes • By Fort Collins Coloradoan • coloradoan.com
Step back in time with stories from Fort Collins’…
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The Way it Was: A podpast
The Way it Was: A podpast
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When Windsor became Wizards
What’s in a name? For Windsor High School, quite the... more
Apr 4 2024 29m
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What About Gertrude?
For 135 years, the murder of Eva Howe and lynching o... more
Aug 31 2023 34m
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Telegraphs to teletype: The Coloradoan looks back on 150 years
On a blustery March day in 1873, a wagon loaded with... more
Apr 19 2023 36m
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The Swetsville Zoo Story
As the sale of his final slice of Timnath farmland n... more
Sep 30 2022 29m
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The crash on Crystal Mountain
In the early morning hours of June 30, 1951, a four-... more
Jun 13 2022 40m
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'Fort Collins didn't start with Fort Collins'
In the summer of 1862, U.S. soldiers trekked along t... more
Mar 16 2022 42m
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Unearthing the invisible Black history of old Fort Collins
A hat box of Mattie Lyle's old photographs sat in a ... more
Feb 11 2021 26m
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The history of Old Town's holiday lights
From its earliest streams of colorful electric light... more
Dec 21 2020 20m
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Hope and Faith
On Aug. 24, 1996, the bodies of two unidentified new... more
Nov 5 2020 35m
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Nellie Tayloe Ross: First lady to first lady governor
In the span of three months in fall 1924, Nellie Tay... more
Sep 2 2020 30m
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The Life of Lee Martinez
He was a father, a farmer, a family man and natural ... more
Jul 16 2020 32m
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'The mother of all pandemics'
In the fall of 1918, a mysterious and deadly flu arr... more
Apr 16 2020 29m
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The unusual life and trying times of Polly Brinkhoff
For more than 40 years - until 1999 - Poudre Canyon ... more
Mar 4 2020 25m
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Introducing "Hunted: Inside Ted Bundy's Trail of Terror"
In this special, three-part podcast, Way it Was host... more
Feb 5 2019 2m
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The colonel who saved Christmas
In December 1955, the menacing red phone on Air Forc... more
Dec 20 2018 18m
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Hitler's last soldier
On a moonlit night in late September 1945, Nazi pris... more
Dec 5 2018 38m
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20 years later: The murder of Matthew Shepard
In October 1998, the hate crime murder of a gay Wyom... more
Oct 11 2018 26m
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The legend of Lubick
When you hear Sonny Lubick's name, you think Colorad... more
Sep 13 2018 46m
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Into thin air: The curious disappearance of Joe Halpern
On August 15, 1933, a 22-year-old graduate student w... more
Aug 9 2018 32m
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The bitter side to Colorado's sugar beet boom
As the nations demands for sugar beets grew, so did ... more
Jul 12 2018 22m
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A 50-year holdout: The Holiday Twin Drive-In
As drive-in movie theaters shuttered across the coun... more
Jun 14 2018 19m
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Odell, not O'Doul's: 30 years of local brewing history
Coloradoan reporter Jake Laxen sits down with Odell ... more
May 10 2018 30m
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Inside the Mata murders: Part II
Almost eight months after sisters Rosemary and Julia... more
Apr 19 2018 32m
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Inside the Mata murders: Part I
On April 29, 1978, hunters driving along a rural Col... more
Apr 12 2018 31m
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The tale of Annie the railroad dog
In 1934, a group of railroad workers found a pregnan... more
Mar 8 2018 22m
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