Hosted by Fort Collins Coloradoan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 39 episodes
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Step back in time with stories from Fort Collins’ past, from the cute and quirky to the dark and mysterious.
Fort Collins Coloradoan hosts The Way it Was: A podpast, a society show with 39 episodes published.
For nearly a century, Colorado State University's Old Main building stood as a stalwart reminder of the school's humble beginnings. Then one night, it was gone. Revisit the history of Old Main and the mystery that still
Whether you love geese or hate them, their presence in Northern Colorado is not Mother Nature's doing. That honor goes to Gurney Crawford, a longtime wildlife conservation officer and Fort Collins' "Father Goose."
What’s in a name? For Windsor High School, quite the story. In 1924, the school’s boys basketball team did the unimaginable when it won the National Interscholastic Basketball Championship in Chicago. Team members came h
For 135 years, the murder of Eva Howe and lynching of her husband, James, has captivated Fort Collins. But this story isn't about James or Eva. It's about their daughter, Gertrude — the little girl who became an orphan a
On a blustery March day in 1873, a wagon loaded with a hand-run printing press pulled into Fort Collins. The next month the first edition of the city's first newspaper would roll off it, setting into motion a century and
As the sale of his final slice of Timnath farmland neared, Swetsville Zoo founder Bill Swets traced its 80-year history in his family and the tragedy from which his wacky sculpture park bloomed.
In the early morning hours of June 30, 1951, a four-engine luxury airliner flew off course and slammed into Crystal Mountain, killing all 50 people on board. To this day, more than 70 years later, it remains the deadlies
In the summer of 1862, U.S. soldiers trekked along the Cache la Poudre River to find a home for a new military outpost called Camp Collins. But they were not the first people to live in Northern Colorado - not even close
A hat box of Mattie Lyle's old photographs sat in a garage for years. It wasn't until 2020 that they got their day in the sun - showcasing the little-told stories of Black life in early Fort Collins.
From its earliest streams of colorful electric lights to the thousands of LED-lit strings that now adorn Old Town Fort Collins' streets each winter, learn about the evolution of Fort Collins' sweet holiday lights traditi
On Aug. 24, 1996, the bodies of two unidentified newborn girls were pulled from a river and reservoir about 180 miles apart in Colorado. While not related by blood, their homicide cases remained oddly in step with each o
In the span of three months in fall 1924, Nellie Tayloe Ross became a widow, single mother and the first woman elected governor in the United States. But her journey to the Wyoming governor's office and, later, Washingto
He was a father, a farmer, a family man and natural handyman. When he wasn't trimming trees or slinging cement bags in faded overalls, he was decked in a suit and tie - off to another committee meeting or voter registrat
In the fall of 1918, a mysterious and deadly flu arrived in Fort Collins. The small college town battled the virus with makeshift hospitals, school and business closures and social distancing. But the flu still targeted
For more than 40 years - until 1999 - Poudre Canyon mountain woman Polly Brinkhoff lived without running water, electricity or plumbing. She had a pet mountain lion, kept her food in a cave and once nearly sliced her bun
In this special, three-part podcast, Way it Was host Erin Udell digs into Ted Bundy's notorious 1970s killing spree. An estimated 30 women and girls were abducted and murdered by Bundy across four years and six states. B
In December 1955, the menacing red phone on Air Force Col. Harry Shoup’s desk rang. But it wasn’t the Pentagon – no four-star general either. It was a tiny voice asking for Santa Claus. What happened next would kick off
On a moonlit night in late September 1945, Nazi prisoner of war Georg Gaertner slipped out of his New Mexico prison camp and into American life. As the years ticked by, he would become the last fugitive German POW hunted
In October 1998, the hate crime murder of a gay Wyoming student shook the world. After 20 years, we revisit the life and tragic death of Matthew Shepard.
When you hear Sonny Lubick's name, you think Colorado State University football. So more than ten years after the longtime coach's tenure ended, Coloradoan reporter Jacob Laxen sits down with Lubick for a behind-the-scen
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The Way it Was: A podpast is hosted by Fort Collins Coloradoan. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 39 episodes.
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