by Meg Dunn | Nov 23, 2017 | NoCo Holidays
Happy Thanksgiving, Northern Colorado! Here are a few glimpses back to Thanksgivings gone by. The Antlers Cafe served quite a spread on Thanksgiving day back in 1907. The Cafe was presumably located in the Antlers Hotel on Linden St. in Fort Collins (the building that...
by Meg Dunn | Apr 15, 2017 | NoCo Holidays
Happy Easter! I love flipping back through old newspapers and looking at the advertisements. Holiday ads often feel both familiar and somewhat foreign at the same time. Note the text at left in the image above entitled “Easter Waists.” “Your Easter...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 20, 2016 | NoCo Holidays, Sponsors
Back in 1930 there was no online shopping at Christmas time. There was no mall and no chain stores surrounded by massive parking lots. Instead there were homemade gifts, mail-order catalogs like Sears-Roebuck, and small, locally owned shops downtown. One such shop was...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 22, 2015 | History in the News, NoCo Holidays
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat. These ads are from newspapers in Fort Collins’ past. I’ve flipped through a couple of old newspapers, clipping out old Christmas ads from December 22, 1916 (Fort Collins Weekley Courier) and December 18, 1922...
by Meg Dunn | Nov 24, 2015 | Fort Collins, History in the News, NoCo Holidays
It’s always a blast looking back through old newspapers. Today I thought we’d jump back to November 18, 1908’s Fort Collins Weekly Courier. I’m going to focus on the ads because the world news was rather bleak, and the local news wasn’t...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 26, 2014 | History in the News, NoCo Holidays
The newspapers in the late 1800s often had national and international news on the front page along with occasional poems, stories, and advertisements. But further into the paper there were columns containing random bits of information on local matters. What follows is...
by Meg Dunn | Dec 23, 2014 | NoCo Holidays
Last week I wrote about native son, Hugo Evon Frey. Today I bring to you one of his stories. I don’t know whether or not the story is true. Where facts don’t seem to line up, I’ve made a note. But given that he seemed to often write about tales from...
by Meg Dunn | Nov 25, 2014 | Fort Collins, NoCo Holidays
In the 1800s, the Thanksgiving holiday in Fort Collins always began with a dance party. Though various people or groups would host the dance from year to year, and though it was sometimes held in another nearby town, there was always a dance on Thanksgiving Eve....
