Lost & Preserved in Colorado Springs

I lived in the springs since 66 now I'm in n.c.the changes I've seen aren't the changes I hoped for,enough said.

Love the old pictures. I was born at the Air Force Academy in the 1960’s. My dad helped build NORAD and was also stationed at Ent and the Chidlaw building. Graduated from Taylor Elementary, North JHS, Mitchell HS, and UCCS. This will always be home. ♥️

I love all your Rocky Mountain PBS programs! This one especially! To everyone that creates these Thank You!

History matters. love those old buildings.

This place has changed soooo much as a child I remember Academy Blvd was dirt road, Powers Blvd was two lanes , race tracks out east, dog races and the flea market at the same place, Austin Bluffs mall, Walmart on Platte was A Drive-in Theatre, man this place changes daily it’s so hard to take in sometimes!! Thank you RMPBS!!

I got here in 2004 and loved it. I saw myself staying for a long time but now it it is time to go. I had always dreamed of living in CO but it it turning into CA. Planning my move out within two years.

Very good program, but I wanted more! Was too short! Great photos and video clips. Well-done to all involved, and thank you for what you do to preserve our history.

Wonderful program. I remember when they tore down so many of the old buildings down town. It was heart breaking. I remember going to the Chief Theater as a kid. It was so beautiful. I just couldn’t believe they tore it down. I’m glad there were some buildings saved!

We moved to Colorado Springs in 1970 and lived in Village 7 until my mom bought a house off of Templeton Gap road. Acadamy Boulevard was the east side back then and still a two lane dirt road before it reached I-25. She got permission to go into the old Chief theatre to look around before they really started tearing it down and even got a few small parts of it. I still remember going through the tunnels and rooms under the old wooden stage....What an adventure that was!!!! Truly a shame so much of the wonderful history was torn down in the name of "progress" This program is awesome and brought back a LOT of great memories for me......THANK YOU RMPBS!!!

The Colorado Springs urban cookie cutter sprawl is amazing. Its just keeps going. Very little of Colorado Springs is worth seeing.

This is a wonderful program showing the changes in Colorado Springs and some of the great architecture that was lost with urban renewal. We have lost a lot of our history and finally learned a lesson almost too late. I have looked at some of the old maps when Colorado Springs was a small town and how it has grown in recent times.

I grew up on E. Las Animas Street, and Prospect Lake was our swimming place. East of that was only prairie and cattle grazing. When I was 11 years old in 1965, we would go to Palmer Park lookout, and north of Palmer Park was nothing at all. The Cinema 70 at Platte and Chelton was the only building standing surrounded by empty fields. Newly constructed Academy and Platte overpass, way out in the countryside, had no traffic and it was so silent I could hear crickets. I miss my small hometown, and the prairie on the way to where I was born, Fort Carson, in 1954. There was rangeland and cattle grazing all the way there on highway 115 and no houses. Academy Boulevard was a two lane country road, again with cattle grazing on both sides of the road all the way up to the Dublin House on Dublin and Academy, which stood all by itself in the boondocks.

The TB huts would make great tiny homes

Thank you , I watch Colorado Experience on RMPBS every Thursday . I am born and raised in our glorious city known as Colorado Springs . I found this episode particularly engaging . Blessing every body :)

Colorado Springs is my hometown. I moved away in July 1972. I lived through the tragic demolition of some of its beautiful structures---most notably the beautiful Antlers Hotel and the Chief Theater. At the time we were appalled and angered by their destruction, and what was put up in their place was NOT an improvement---even to this day. Even the Hidden Inn in the Garden of the Gods is gone---a lovely structure that blended seamlessly into its natural surroundings. The downtown shopping district is also gone---including my favorite---the Chinook Bookshop. Now they are even building homes up the sides of the Front Range in Pike National Forest. Back in 1971-72, there were placards saying "Don't Californicate Colorado Springs." That is precisely what has been done.

I’m from Colorado Springs and I feel like it’s turning into California. I see a lot of California tags and Texas tags and all of a sudden we have in n out burger? Not to mention it’s getting expensive to live here.

Fascinating. PBS always does a great job on their documentaries and this is no exception.

I can't like this video enough. Amazing video!

Most beautiful Town ever most beautiful city ever my favorite hometown in the world Colorado springs

Who’s behind the continuing wanton destruction of our whole city blocks, in order to put up tall, monstrous, monotone, rectangular boxes, obscuring vistas to the mountains? Whose pockets are bulging with the continuous loss of COS’s beautiful, human-scaled, character filled buildings? Poor COS!