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Fatty’s Place: Archaeology and Tourism in Colorado Springs (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. “Fatty’s Place” was a curio shop located at the entrance of the Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Edwin L. “Fatty” Rice established his shop near the Gateway Rocks in 1892, along the road leading into the Garden of the Gods Park. Historic photos show a rambling wooden structure with advertisements for a...