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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

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1

The Night Old Main Burned

2

The Father Goose of Fort Collins

3

When Windsor became Wizards

4

What About Gertrude?

5

Telegraphs to teletype: The Coloradoan looks back on 150 years

6

The Swetsville Zoo Story

7

The crash on Crystal Mountain

8

'Fort Collins didn't start with Fort Collins'

9

Unearthing the invisible Black history of old Fort Collins

10

The history of Old Town's holiday lights

11

Hope and Faith

12

Nellie Tayloe Ross: First lady to first lady governor

13

The Life of Lee Martinez

14

'The mother of all pandemics'

15

The unusual life and trying times of Polly Brinkhoff

16

Introducing "Hunted: Inside Ted Bundy's Trail of Terror"

17

The colonel who saved Christmas

18

Hitler's last soldier

19

20 years later: The murder of Matthew Shepard

20

The legend of Lubick

21

Into thin air: The curious disappearance of Joe Halpern

22

The bitter side to Colorado's sugar beet boom

23

A 50-year holdout: The Holiday Twin Drive-In

24

Odell, not O'Doul's: 30 years of local brewing history

25

Inside the Mata murders: Part II

26

Inside the Mata murders: Part I

27

The tale of Annie the railroad dog

28

Inside Loveland's sweetheart history

29

Fort Collins' forgotten Manson family victim

30

Back at the crossing

31

Harmony: A paved-over pioneer community

32

Cold: The Sorenson murders

33

The scorched history of Windsor's mill

34

Disappearance of Chris Vigil: The family speaks

35

Fort Collins and its famed Disneyland connection

36

Hell and high water: The Spring Creek Flood of 1997

37

The fight for Fort Collins' trolley

38

Vanished: The case of Chris Vigil

39

Stout: A town under water

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