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Who are those folks immortalized by all the city’s statues? Meet the cowboys, philanthropists, builders, miners and the ‘Pumpkin Man’
Perhaps as you’ve walked downtown or stopped at a red light while you were driving you’ve had that moment to wonder exactly who was that person memorialized with a statue in a median, outside a building, in a park or sculpted just gazing west toward Pikes Peak. What did they do? The people in the…
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Iconic tradition: Western Street breakfast returns to downtown Colorado Springs Thursday
The Western Street Breakfast is an iconic Colorado Springs tradition that began in 1936, when 35 people gathered around an old chuckwagon in front of Joe Reich’s Swiss Chalet and bought their morning meal. This year, the Western Street Breakfast will take place on Tejon Street from 5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Thursday. The breakfast…