Colorado Central Articles From — March 1994

Essay by Ed Quillen

Tourism – March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

The hot issue around Salida these days appears to be a land trade between the city and the state highway department that could result in an expanded golf course. Read the rest of this article

Article by Lynda La Rocca

Local lore – March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

Depressed metal prices meant that there might be more nostalgia than production in the Leadville Mineral Belt. Civic leaders decided to promote tourism; to draw free-spending visitors, they built a tourist attraction. Read the rest of this article

Essay by Martha And Ed Quillen

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

That might be where Central Colorado is bound, now that the national media have changed us from “America’s Outback” into “Boom Time in the Rockies.” Read the rest of this article

Brief by Various

Mountain Life – March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

Did you turn on the driveway

VAIL — They have heated driveways here. They probably have them in Aspen, too, but we saw them first here. When it snows, they just turn a switch. No shovels. No snowblowers. Next thing you know, they’ll have air-conditioned saunas and touch-tone showers — if they don’t already. Read the rest of this article

Article by Ed Quillen

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

If you believe that state senators occupy big, impressive quarters under the gold dome in Denver, then you’ve never seen State Sen. Linda Powers’ office. Read the rest of this article

Sidebar by Martha Quillen

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

When I started the pyramid story, I didn’t know anything about the New Age — except the obvious.

I had noticed that people in the 70s tended to blame their problems on their home lives, by the 80s they blamed their past lives. Read the rest of this article

Article by Martha Quillen

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

The Sangre De Cristo range rises sharply on the east side of the San Luis Valley, creating a solid wall of jagged peaks.

Below, the valley is bleak, beautiful, vast, empty, unquestionably inspirational, and also — according to a growing number of people — holy. Read the rest of this article

Essay by Martha & Ed Quillen

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

We go into lurid detail about our publishing philosophy on page 27, and since that explanation stretches almost to the end of the magazine, there’s little point in repeating any of it here.

We kicked this idea around for years before it finally took this form. Read the rest of this article

Essay by Hal Walter

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

In the beginning, the town of Westcliffe was founded on a land scam.

It worked something like this. The railroad built a spur from the main line along the Arkansas River to the boom town of Silver Cliff so that miners, ranchers and farmers could ship their goods. It sounded like a great idea. But lo and behold, if you wanted to locate your business at the railhead, the railroad executives owned all the land around it, sly devils. Westcliffe was born, limey spelling and all, a scandalous mile or so west of Silver Cliff. Read the rest of this article

Article by Ed Quillen

March 1994 – Colorado Central Magazine

For most rural scrounge artists, a trip to the dump used to offer one big challenge — could you come back with less than you took? Read the rest of this article