Top 5 Weirdest Facts About Colorado Springs | Part 3

[@kylelambert1672]

The story goes that the guy who built the Broadmoor hotel made the "a" lower case because he was once denied a nights stay at the antlers hotel.

[@kylelambert1672]

Thanks for using my comment about the cave, im a Colorado springs native, 38 years so far, but our family is looking to move somewhere warm in the next few years. Theres a bunch of interesting things about the 719 and I'll add moce as i remember them. One is there are a bunch of parks and streets here named after fallen police officers and politicians. Mark dabling boulevard is named after an officer, marksheffel road is named after a families auto company which was at one point said to be the largest garage in the world. We also had a senator named mark sheffel. Kelley Johnson boulevard is named after an aeronautical engineer who designed the sr71 blackbird and u2 spy plane. I think he graduated from the air force academy. If you go to the parks in town, the main park sign has a short paragraph about who each park is named after.

[@kylelambert1672]

There is a lot of early Colorado springs history on the west side especially since thats where it all started. Spencer Penrose built the will rogers shrine of the sun above the zoo, and i think ive read hes buried there with a family friend. And on the wall there is a mural going over springs history including its time as a train hub. You used to be able to get off the train where Giuseppe's restaurant used to be, and ealk across the park to stay in the antlers hotel.

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My brother Ben lives in Colorado Springs.

[@ZergS4uc3]

i got one for you, the same year flying w ranch burnt down the city destroyed the beloved filmore donkey house and for a darker one the worst stretch of road is academy blvd between village 7 and north carefree, for reasons that have like only 50% to do with traffic deaths, you can guess what the other half was for a second dark fact, district 11 is the only school district to have a school shooting that had someone from each high school majorly affected, took place outside of one(like literal feet from it), three of them are where the shooter and the victims were from, and the last which might be qualified as a stretch to make this a fact the teacher of one of the victims was from the last high school oh got another we got sued by the federal government for faking the making of storm drains and they still havent fixed that we used to have a toysrus the chapel hills mall has apartments in it now for some ungodly reason