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Old 06-21-2013, 04:58 PM
 
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Or Gold Hill Mesa - a housing development on top of old mine tailings?
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Old 06-21-2013, 06:59 PM
 
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Or Gold Hill Mesa - a housing development on top of old mine tailings?
Yes they have not had a lot of luck selling those properties, we are not as dumb as those developers think
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Old 06-22-2013, 10:16 AM
 
Location: 80904 West siiiiiide!
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Sorry to burst your gun-loving bubble, but not everybody has an unconditional love of guns and perhaps you're just not noticing the people who discreetly and carefully move away from you and go somewhere else, based on the small but real possibility you're a homicidal maniac.

Multiple times I've been at restaurants etc with my wife and kids when some open-carry dude (always a dude) sits down nearby flashing his pride and joy and my wife gets so stressed/upset we have to (discretely, so as to not upset a potential madman) get up and leave, sometimes mid meal. You may not be a dangerous trigger-happy shooter in need of mental health services, but we don't KNOW whether you are or not, and its just not worth the risk.

Folks have a legal right to open carry, concealed-carry, whatever, but the rest of us also have a legal right to get nervous about your unknown intentions with that weapon and to get as far away from you as possible, as quickly and as discreetly as possible. There's no law against wondering about your sanity, is there? We'd do the same if you were walking into Home Depot or sitting down at a restaurant holding a large sword or a cross-bow or something. Carrying around deadly weapons may be legal, but I'd be careful about happily and blindly assuming you're never disturbing any of your fellow citizens with your decision to do so.
Omg, drama queen lol. Must be awful to so afraid of a pile of metal. People openly carrying weapons are hardly the ones you need to worry about. Do you get nervous when you see police do it too? Lmfao.....

For the record, someone with sanity problems most likely would not be able to own a firearm legally.
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Old 06-22-2013, 10:17 AM
 
Location: 80904 West siiiiiide!
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Tesla actually lived in COS. Where's his monument?
It on east pikes peak, on the memorial park side of the road between Hancock and Union.
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Old 06-22-2013, 10:20 AM
 
Location: 80904 West siiiiiide!
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Or Gold Hill Mesa - a housing development on top of old mine tailings?
Yea, you can't even have a garden because of e possible soil contamination. I can't believe they've sold so many of these houses already.
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Old 06-22-2013, 12:44 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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Yea, you can't even have a garden because of e possible soil contamination. I can't believe they've sold so many of these houses already.
Not that there's space for a garden. Those lots are TINY.
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Old 06-22-2013, 01:17 PM
 
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Okay, back to "strange but true" stuff about COLO SPGS.

How about the Rockrimmon area, where the occasional smoldering fires of former underground coal mines burn their way to the surface and reportedly melt the soles of sneakers, etc.
Mike, thank you and everyone else for sharing these fascinating facts about Colorado Springs. I can't believe that coals are still smoldering. Thanks everyone, fun to learn little known facts about a city.

Charlie.
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Old 06-22-2013, 01:46 PM
 
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Mike, thank you and everyone else for sharing these fascinating facts about Colorado Springs. I can't believe that coals are still smoldering. Thanks everyone, fun to learn little known facts about a city.

Charlie.
Thanks for the kind words.

IIRC there's a thread in here on that issue, anyone who wishes to find it should use our search tool with keywords like coal, fire, rockrimmon and/or combinations of those words.


Another strange/true thing that's fairly well known is that COLO SPGS was once a place where thousands of people came to try and cure their cases of TB. Some were cured but many died. There used to be long rows of tiny cottages where these people "took the airs" of our climate. IIRC there's still one of these tiny living quarters on the grounds of Mt. St. Francis off Woodmen Rd; it's okay to drive around in there, it's a beautiful place with a nursing home for old nuns (I think).
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Old 06-22-2013, 04:46 PM
 
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Yes as for the TB issue if you pay attention around town you'll still find sanatorium houses that have been re-used in homes and other structures. They look like this: http://cdn.csgazette.biz/cache/wb260...8a25c4814e.jpg If I remember correctly, you can see one up close or maybe even go inside one at the Pioneers Museum downtown.

As for coal mines, If you drive up the interstate near the Rockrimmon interchange underneath where the Sunbird restaurant is, you can see an old coke oven left over from the coal mines. I hope they save it as it looks like they're planning on doing some building in that area perhaps. My great-grandfather worked at the Peakview Mine and my mom remembers going with her mom to give him lunch and he'd come up the mine elevator with a black face from the coal. He lost his pension when there was a strike and he crossed the lines because he was desperate to feed his family. He used to hunt rabbit in downtown Colorado Springs and they'd go and pick choke cherries in Monument Valley Park for pies, and they'd go to Manitou Springs to get jugs of the spring water for lemonade. I wish someone had bothered to write a history of our coal mines before they were gone, because the story is being quickly lost.
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Old 06-22-2013, 04:57 PM
 
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Speaking of TB cures here in the Springs...made me think...does anyone know why
we know probably 3 people each with MS, Multiple Sclerosis, here?

Oh, these TB cottages behind 'mansions' in the Old North End with so much sun coming into them are sweet rentals!

A friend has an apt in the Pulitzer Mansion...her apt has the bathroom and bedroom
of Pulitzer's daughter, with TB...sorry, read all the history, but have forgotten her name, Dorothy?
In the ONE, El Parque off Wood, many parties there!!!!


Edit: No one has mentioned all the RADON here bec of those Coal Mines!!
Yikes..!
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