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Old 02-05-2009, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Charles Schulz lived here for a couple of years in the early 1950s. Painted a mural of early Peanuts characters on the wall inside his house! I blogged about it, not sure if I can post the link here or not.
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Old 02-05-2009, 03:05 PM
 
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Charles Schulz lived here for a couple of years in the early 1950s. Painted a mural of early Peanuts characters on the wall inside his house! I blogged about it, not sure if I can post the link here or not.
To add to your post, Lucy and Linus Van Pelt were actually neighbors of Charles Schulz in Colorado Springs whom he named his characters after.
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Old 02-11-2009, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Avondale, AZ
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Palmer Lake/Monument area had over 20,000 acres of potatos. Potato blight put an end to that industry in 1895. Maybe Jazz has some first-hand knowledge
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Old 02-11-2009, 08:33 PM
 
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In 1910, Colorado Springs only ad 29,000 people. At the same time, Cripple Creek had more people than Colorado Springs.
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Old 02-12-2009, 07:59 AM
 
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Palmer lake had two railroad stations on opposite sides of the lake... one for each RR company.
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Old 02-13-2009, 04:32 AM
 
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Ok, here's a sad little known fact:

Frasier's Kelsey Grammer's sister Karen was raped and murdered outside a Red Lobster in Colorado Springs in 1975. His father was murdered in 1968 (not in Colorado Springs). His half-brothers Stephen and Bill died in a shark attack (also not in Colorado Springs).
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Old 02-13-2009, 06:53 AM
 
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Colorado Springs has been and still is the life-long home of Hall of Fame pitcher Rich 'Goose' Gossage. Theres is a sports complex in downtown which bears his name.
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Old 02-22-2009, 12:07 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs!
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Colorado Springs has been and still is the life-long home of Hall of Fame pitcher Rich 'Goose' Gossage. Theres is a sports complex in downtown which bears his name.
Nice guy! I drank a beer with him at Hooters sometime between 2000-2001. I also have his Topps baseball card I think from 1980.
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Old 02-22-2009, 01:43 AM
 
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Next to Colorado Springs:

Fountain, has the distinction of being the United States' millennium city because it best symbolizes the overall composition of America. Fountain is the most accurate representation of the American "melting pot." Fountain was chosen after a Queens College sociologist crunched Census Bureau statistics in an effort to find the one city in the country that best represented the population make-up of the United States.
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Old 02-22-2009, 01:45 AM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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Hmmm... I'd be interested to know what stats they base that fact on. If by 'visited', they mean viewed, first hand, from within x number of miles, than I'm sure places like Half Dome or the swiss alps would edge either of those out of the top 2. But if they mean peaks summited, by any means, then I can believe that stat, unless of course they count urban peaks in any one of a number of metro areas in this country or the world.

However, I'm ceratin of this fact... of monolithic peaks over 12k feet, Mt. Fuji and Pikes Peak are most often summited by humans using various modes of travel. Simply because htose are only two of three that I know if that have roads to the top at that altitude. The third is Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii.

I know this probably interests no one but me, but it's a public forum...
Don't forget Monument hill, I-25 is sure busy and technically its a mountain pass this the top of a small mountain!

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