Posted on 12/21/2017 9:08:28 AM PST by x1stcav
If his name is Cory Gardner he’s in trouble!
I’m done with him.
Now it is huge!
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Around 1870 for us. My great-grandparents were married in 1889.
My family lived in Swansea-Elyria-Globeville-Commerce City. They even lived in Auraria at one point. My great-grandfather had a feed and hay place near Colfax and Speer. And house where the US Mint sits today.
My dad and I visited the family house/homestead(still there) and noted the tree in front of the house — it is around 12 feet across at the base. It is the same tree in the picture shot about 1905 and it was only a sapling then. It was tree that my great-grandparents picked up Arbor day in 1905? and planted in the front of the house(there is a picture of my grandfather sitting in a buckboard with saplings in the back; was clipped from the newspaper). That tree was 107 years old at the time!
Family mythology goes that my great grandfather owned Red Rocks and let it go for taxes. I have the original deed and checked it with an expert and it is a couple of miles from Red Rocks. Actually, it is a plot of land near where HW285 enters the mountains.
Lots of family stories of early Denver.
The cycles are repeating themselves.
When I fist got here in the early ‘90s I remember bumper stickers that read ‘Don’t Californicate Colorado’.
When I go to a party or out drinking and people would ask where I was from I be very careful to say that I had been ‘transferred’ by my company from California.
That seemed to fend off any hostility.
I hear ya
Wow, that is all really neat and thank you for sharing.
My great grandparents settled in Salida after coming from Ohio. He was a Railroad conductor once the RR came into the area. People asked how a RR conductor could afford to send a son to law school. He had invested in some gold mines and did pretty well.
Maybe our ancestors rubbed elbows some time along the way.
Merry Christmas.
I bet they did. I always wonder about this. :)
That was the big thing before the silver crash in the 1880s. The ore was transported down into Denver where it was processed in the processing plant in Globeville. All of the nasty metals saturated the area and it is now a superfund sight. The precious metals made a lot of people rich in Colorado. Lots of interesting history. :)
Hey, had a girlfriend of many years ago who grew up in Salida (Cotopaxi) — family names were Lively and Yeats and Padilla. Girlfriend in Cotopaxi, her family in Salida. I made a few trips from Denver to Salida in the late 70s, early 80s. Pretty town.
Colorado is a beautiful state. I have traveled everywhere and even internationally, and Colorado has it all beat by a mile. More than the fact that it is home. The weather, the seasons, little humidity, blue skies, few bugs, etc.
Merry Christmas to you!
Very nice chatting with you. It’s good to see some of us good guy natives are still around. If you’re ever in the Durango area let me know.
Will there be primary opposition to Gardner in 2020?
The Colorado Republican Party is the best thing that has ever happened to the Colorado Democrat Party.
They nominate folks who actually make Maxine Waters look intelligent. (There are a few exceptions. Very few.)
You plan to vote for Hickenlooper. How very weird of you. You want to turn the Senate over to the Democrats. Or are you only talking about the primary?!
GOP needs to purge themselves of this vermin. It’s the only way they can be a viable party again. The days of the country club “Get Along to Go Along” Republican are over.
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