Pueblo and Southern Colorado (Pueblo West, Delta: beach, stadium, money)

[Delta Planter]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

I was responding to your signature there by your user name. It was kind of intended to be an ice-breaker, not a negative comment about your commitment to our Country.

It also came with a + rep. Something very foreign to most on City-Data these days.

I gladly pay taxes, vote, and serve jury duty and try to abide by the laws of the land and help others where I can. That's how I've served my Country.

I thought about the post, after the post. Sorry, didn't mean for you to take it that way, just the "lucky" part. Semper Fi to you, Sir!

[McGowdog]

Semper Fi to you, and the plate of Gnochi at Patti's is on me... if it's still there when you get here. Or the Chicken Alfredo at Giodones Tavern and Restaurant. Or a Dutch Lunch at Guss's. I could buy ya a beer maybe. But I'll have a sprite myself.

Hey Joss: I found something here that confirms what we've been sayin' about 5/30 news;

Posted - 01/05/2004 : 11:37:43 AM
Lora, we must concentrate each day on the most important stories in southern Colorado. Colorado Springs is by far the largest city, and therefore has more news and gets more coverage.

Lexi makes a good point. Where else would you get more Pueblo news on a TV station? We have two veteran reporters, James Jarman and Jonathan Bloom in Pueblo, along with Chad Armes (photojournalist). The last time I checked our competitors each had one person. Obviously we cover Pueblo better than the other stations.

Could we cover more stories in Pueblo? Yes. Could we do less? Yes. These decisions are made every day based on what is going on in the community. We also cover Lamar, Trinidad, Canon City, etc. Would they like to see more of their communities on the news? Of course. Can we justify it based on where the bulk of our audience lives? No.

Greg Boyce

A real blast from the past, I tell ya. I wonder if Lexi is still around? I burned my bridge on a local forum, so... it's not a City-Data anyway. I could still go there, but it's a waste of time!

[Josseppie]

McGowDog,

Highway 50 is a mess to begin with lol. They want to fix it when they up grade it from Pueblo to the Kansas border by having just one highway 50 go straight though Pueblo past I-25 and the University then out north of the airport then continue east. Here is the web page:

http://www.dot.state.co.us/US50E/

Do you just mean the pictures you just took with the snow? If so they are awesome! To be honest I am not sure what Graneros Gorge is?

Just think if Pueblo gets two loops around the city, we would be the only city in Colorado with that!

Interesting about channel 5. I also think they see that Pueblo will grow and why they stay here, if not I think they would have moved with the other stations years ago.

[vegaspilgrim]

Is Pueblo the kind of town where the kids want to get the heck out as soon as they graduate high school? Or are there plenty of people (attractive girls, especially) in their early to mid 20's there?

[Josseppie]

Originally Posted by vegaspilgrim

Is Pueblo the kind of town where the kids want to get the heck out as soon as they graduate high school? Or are there plenty of people (attractive girls, especially) in their early to mid 20's there?

It depends you always have a percentage that want to live in a city like NYC or San Diego or LA, but even if people leave many tend to come back.

Pueblo is only 150,000 so it can be harder to meet people here then in a city like Denver or NYC, just a numbers game.

Overall though I think Puebloans tend to like their city more then people in other cities, why Pueblo did not drop much in population when the steel crisis of the 1980's hit while other steel cities lost population and are still losing population.\

That, also, shows in how Puebloan's then to invest in their city with such projects as the convention center and the Riverwalk!

[Josseppie]

Originally Posted by Delta Planter

Good Grief! I was always under the impression it would be CS coming south, NOT Pueblo going north! I also recall, when living there, the speculation that eventually there would be nothing vacant from Denver to Pueblo along the interstate. Looks like that is coming to pass, huh?

A question, though, one I've not fully understood all the while, is why Pueblo West even sprung up? Was it flight from Pueblo proper, or just a simple expansion toward the mountains, to include the reservoir?

When I was stationed at the Reserve Center, one drilling unit procured a captain's gig from San Diego. After refitting it for a year, they took it out to the reservoir on drill weekends. The primary purpose was to train coxswains in the art of driving small boats when they were send on training duty to places like San Diego.

And, McGowDog, yes, I AM retired after giving 20+ years in service to my country. Lucky? Yes, I suppose so, lucky to have made it!

Pueblo West sprung up because of the reservoir. Personally I think it should some day be in the city, but that is a long shot at best.

As far as Pueblo growing north, yes we are as well as south, west and east. Why I think its only a matter of time before we pass Colorado Springs then Denver to be the states largest city (maybe not during my life time though lol).

I have even heard that it is possible that the city of Pueblo might annex some of the land in El Paso county (all south of the race track though), that they would rather be in Pueblo then Fountain.

[McGowdog]

Vegas, that's the way I was. That's why I bolted up to Denver. Whether the girls are pretty or not wasn't the point. I could always drink them pretty.

But a guy wants his tree to fork, too. Not saying that we're all kin out here, but people from the smaller towns tend to get all up in your bus, IYNWIM. I don't want to date Suzy Floozy after John and Phillip and Mike and ... Charlie and whomever else did. YouknowwhatImean? Besides that, I needed a place where I could get a J.O.B. after college! BAUCK! It's sad, but it's the damn truth. Hopefully that will change after Josse and Pro and everybody corrals all this new business down here. Wouldn't that be sweet?

Josseppie: click here and go to my Colorado City 1 and 2 posts and you'll see a speck of that Gorge. You've lived in Pueblo County for how long and you haven't seen the Gorge? That's where my dad let me practice driving the old pickup. He also used to tell me to go play on the freeway.

[vegaspilgrim]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

Vegas, that's the way I was. That's why I bolted up to Denver. Whether the girls are pretty or not wasn't the point. I could always drink them pretty.

But a guy wants his tree to fork, too. Not saying that we're all kin out here, but people from the smaller towns tend to get all up in your bus, IYNWIM. I don't want to date Suzy Floozy after John and Phillip and Mike and ... Charlie and whomever else did. YouknowwhatImean?

Ewww... I know what you mean, no thanks!

Besides that, I needed a place where I could get a J.O.B. after college! BAUCK! It's sad, but it's the damn truth. Hopefully that will change after Josse and Pro and everybody corrals all this new business down here. Wouldn't that be sweet?

I think it would be. Like I said earlier, in many ways I like Pueblo. I like the landscape, the desert-y vegetation, the fact that it's a tad bid warmer, sunnier, and drier than Denver, the raw, old-school, "authentic" feel of the town, the food, the diversity of cultures, its closeness to the pinion pine country and southern Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico that I love, and the fact that it's only 1:40 south of Denver, about the same distance from Denver as Tucson is from Phoenix. But realistically I doubt I could live there. There's more to life than just food and scenery, as important as those things are. I'm graduating with a MS in Accounting in four months, and need to get a job in my field. And I also need the coeds, and not the "Suzy Floozy" you were talking about... Realistically, Albuquerque is about the smallest city I could be happy living in at this point in time. And for all practical intents and purposes I'm about 90% likely to be right back in Denver four months from now. But sometimes I like to think "what if...." about places like Pueblo.

And Jossie, have you seen my Pueblo photos: http://www.city-data.com/forum/color...ml#post4646850?

[la junta econ devel]

Josseppie, McGowdog, Vegaspilgrim and others....We have some people in the southern areas that are getting ready to post. Would one (or all) of you mind sending me a direct message as to how you post pictures and I will copy and forward to others? I notice the three of you do a great job posting pix, so any help would be appreciated and we'll get some activity from other parts of Southern Colorado.

This will be a great thread for the area, and we will get some pix and information from the colleges and other communities in Southern Colorado up before long.

[Josseppie]

Great pictures you guys.

So I take it that Graneros Gorge is in Pueblo County? I had no idea that even existed, I will have to go check it out sometime. BTW I hear hatchet ranch is the next Pueblo West.

Also, if you think you guys have a hard time finding someone here, it is much more difficult for me since I am in a minority lol

As far as Albuquerque, its a nice city but my issue with them is they are so isolated. So yes they maybe 500,000 people but the next big city is a 6 hour drive, or longer. Pueblo is part of the Front Range Urban Corridor and there are million of people here and it is diverse.