Relocating to Colorado

[foxhunter]

it was beginning to sprawl in the late 1980's and early 90's. when I lived in Colorado springs there was 200,000 people, now there is 750,000 and the crime to go with it. I remember lt. joe kenda homicide hunter from tv coming in to the gun store and looking at 45 acp's. he has a thing for 1911's.
dated a female navy Lt. from woodland park, she was the engineer on the exon Valdez. just got off 2 weeks before it wrecked..

[georgeld]

Hmmm Woodland Park.
In the mid '60's I worked for Ross Lane that had the Pepsi
dealership in the Spgs.
He owned that place with all the man made ponds just North of there.
He'd have several gatherings for the employee's. Usually he'd have some
project he wanted done while we were up there. I ran a small dozer a couple times making the dams for some of those ponds.

Around '90, wife and I got one of those gimmic 'invites' to go check out lot sales.
Damned if some outfit hadn't gotten the place and was splitting it up. Sure got a lot of attention when I started telling my wife about building those ponds. Many gathered around wanting to know more.

Sure made me sick to see what was happening to that fine place. Don't recall being back up there since.

[shifty]

Originally Posted by georgeld

Hmmm Woodland Park.
In the mid '60's I worked for Ross Lane that had the Pepsi
dealership in the Spgs.
He owned that place with all the man made ponds just North of there.
He'd have several gatherings for the employee's. Usually he'd have some
project he wanted done while we were up there. I ran a small dozer a couple times making the dams for some of those ponds.

Around '90, wife and I got one of those gimmic 'invites' to go check out lot sales.
Damned if some outfit hadn't gotten the place and was splitting it up. Sure got a lot of attention when I started telling my wife about building those ponds. Many gathered around wanting to know more.

Sure made me sick to see what was happening to that fine place. Don't recall being back up there since.

When i went back to visit ,i did find one person in Woodland Park that i had known back when. The lady at the little clothing store there right on the main road,she was the only person i could find that lived there when i did back in the early 70's.By the way did you ever know the Crowmwell family that owned the little Sinclair Store there on the right side of the road going into WP from the Springs?Man this sure brings back some great memory's !

[foxhunter]

like Deckers? or Eleven mile.

you would have to be a Trout fisherman to get it.

[georgeld]

I never knew anyone in the WP area other than the Lane's.
His place was 5-10 miles N up a dirt rd from WP.
Just had a small stream running along side/thru the place.
Ross wanted to have some small fish ponds on it, so we built 'em.
At first he wanted us to do it with shovels and wheelbarrows. I told
him: IF you'll get a bucket loader or dozer I'd run it and save lots of time
and money for labor". Next day we all went back home to the spgs.
Couple weeks he told me to plan on a week up there as he'd gotten a D-4.
Let my wife and two lil kids go along while I was up there. After a couple days
he left us alone once he gave me an idea what he wanted it to look like.

Amazing as he was a real hard a/h to please at work.
Wages those days was about a $1.50/hr or less. That was either in '64 or 65.

[rider]

FH,
My son caught a 5# plus rainbow last weekend at 11 mile. We finished the limit with 2 to 3 lb. fish. Four years ago I caught a 7# rainbow while ice fishing. Last year we did not catch any big fish and very few small fish while ice fishing. The one or two big ones keep a person going back!
Rider













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[georgeld]

WOW!

Late fishing buddy and I spent 9 days on that lake during kokanee snagging time and never caught a single fish, or snagged anything either.
We fished and lived on my old boat the whole time.
Another time sight casting I tossed a snagging hook over the back of a big pike and caused a big eruption but it tore loose.
Sure looked 4 feet long from where I was.

At sundown we'd run east toward the dam and around a rocky point in the last bay to the north and put in for the night.
Fished from the boat with bait, four lines out all night.
Still not a single fish.

Went a couple days on the ice and got cold feet, still no fish.
Beautiful area though, so we enjoyed it.
Had my old dog Fox in the boat with us that jumped on us checking the deer out watering right beside the boat.

[shifty]

Originally Posted by georgeld

I never knew anyone in the WP area other than the Lane's.
His place was 5-10 miles N up a dirt rd from WP.
Just had a small stream running along side/thru the place.
Ross wanted to have some small fish ponds on it, so we built 'em.
At first he wanted us to do it with shovels and wheelbarrows. I told
him: IF you'll get a bucket loader or dozer I'd run it and save lots of time
and money for labor". Next day we all went back home to the spgs.
Couple weeks he told me to plan on a week up there as he'd gotten a D-4.
Let my wife and two lil kids go along while I was up there. After a couple days
he left us alone once he gave me an idea what he wanted it to look like.

Amazing as he was a real hard a/h to please at work.
Wages those days was about a $1.50/hr or less. That was either in '64 or 65.

I used to make a few runs down to Pueblo,liked it there and was just there last year too! We usually travel through there every year so next year if able may give you a holler.

[georgeld]

Shifty:

Sounds good to me. Where are you now?
Pm and I'll give you my info.

Hit it the right time, Rider might come by too.
Always nice to meet folks. Johnly was here last week
one evening. There's been several others over the years.

[shifty]

Originally Posted by georgeld

Shifty:

Sounds good to me. Where are you now?
Pm and I'll give you my info.

Hit it the right time, Rider might come by too.
Always nice to meet folks. Johnly was here last week
one evening. There's been several others over the years.

PM sent with e-mail addy!