Heres your look at this week in Loveland area history from the archives of the Reporter-Herald: 10 Years Ago • The Budweiser Events Center booked a third major performer: hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg, just after announcing Rod Stewart and Sarah McLachlan would perform at the Loveland venue. • Intel Corp. and Hewlett-Packard ended their 10-year partnership to develop the Itanium chip, and HP engineers in Northern Colorado working on the chip were offered jobs at Intel. • The Loveland City Council began considering an ordinance to crack down on pan-handling in the city. Representatives of some agencies helping the poor in the city said many of the panhandlers working the city were not really people in need. • Eight hundred people were laid off at the Swift & Co. meat-packing plant in Greeley. • The Loveland City Council approved plans for the proposed Mirasol Senior Community. 25 Years Ago • Plans were announced to build an 8-foot-tall chainlink fence at Big Thompson Elementary School west of Loveland, to keep out wildlife such as mountain lions. A mountain lion had been sighted at the school a couple of months earlier. A 1-foot-wide strip of sheet metal would be installed along the bottom to deter rattlesnakes, another problem at the school, officials said. • The Loveland City Council gave preliminary approval for creation of a Loveland Center for Business Development. • Nintendo games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Barbies and scooters were among popular gifts Loveland area children were requesting in their Christmas letters to Santa. • Improvements to the shores of Lake Loveland were put on hold when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the projects proposed did not meet the criteria for the permits requested. Plans had called for development of 18 residential lots along the north shore, south of Loveland High School, athletic fields at the school and improvements in the South Shore Scenic Park and a walkway along Taft Avenue. • Tougher new graduation requirements were proposed for Thompson School District students, raising the communications and social studies requirements from 3.5 to 4.5 units in each area, math and science from 2.5 to 5.0 units, and fine/applied arts from 1.5 to 5.5 units. The electives requirement was to decrease from 5.5 to 4.5 units. A unit was one year of study. 50 Years Ago • Members of the Loveland Lions Club made toys for the Philo Club to give to needy families at Christmas • A shivering Loveland survived 16-degree-below-zero overnight temperatures. • The Rocky Mountain National Park superintendent reported 2 million people had entered the park in 1964, a new record. • At Christmas 1964, the Reporter-Herald looked into its archives at what Christmas 1934, the beginning of the recovery from the Depression, had been like: Fair weather had brought out Christmas Eve shoppers, money had just been appropriated to improve the Big Thompson highway from the Montrose Inn to The Forks, city of Loveland employees were getting pay raises and it was reported Larimer County was leading the nation in housing loans per capita, all leading to a sense of optimism for 1935. “That was the Christmas season of 1934. A year when Loveland was starting its climb from the economic depths of the Depression; a time when the holocaust of war, recurring recessions, nuclear fission and intercontinental missiles were far in the future. Christmas of 1964 holds similar problems, although somewhat different in nature. It also holds similar prospects for a bright future, one which can far outstrip anything that has developed in the past,” the newspaper said.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:14:00 +0000
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