The Way it Was: A podpast
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The Way it Was: A podpast is a society podcast hosted by Fort Collins Coloradoan. It has 39 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.
Step back in time with stories from Fort Collins’ past, from the cute and quirky to the dark and mysterious.
society ·en ·39 episodes
The Night Old Main Burned
The Father Goose of Fort Collins
When Windsor became Wizards
What About Gertrude?
Telegraphs to teletype: The Coloradoan looks back on 150 years
The Swetsville Zoo Story
The crash on Crystal Mountain
'Fort Collins didn't start with Fort Collins'
Unearthing the invisible Black history of old Fort Collins
The history of Old Town's holiday lights
Hope and Faith
Nellie Tayloe Ross: First lady to first lady governor
The Life of Lee Martinez
'The mother of all pandemics'
The unusual life and trying times of Polly Brinkhoff
Introducing "Hunted: Inside Ted Bundy's Trail of Terror"
The colonel who saved Christmas
Hitler's last soldier
20 years later: The murder of Matthew Shepard
The legend of Lubick
Into thin air: The curious disappearance of Joe Halpern
The bitter side to Colorado's sugar beet boom
A 50-year holdout: The Holiday Twin Drive-In
Odell, not O'Doul's: 30 years of local brewing history
Inside the Mata murders: Part II
Inside the Mata murders: Part I
The tale of Annie the railroad dog
Inside Loveland's sweetheart history
Fort Collins' forgotten Manson family victim
Back at the crossing
Harmony: A paved-over pioneer community
Cold: The Sorenson murders
The scorched history of Windsor's mill
Disappearance of Chris Vigil: The family speaks
Fort Collins and its famed Disneyland connection
Hell and high water: The Spring Creek Flood of 1997
The fight for Fort Collins' trolley
Vanished: The case of Chris Vigil
Stout: A town under water
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