Re: [TCML] Tesla's Colorado Springs Labs

[Mustafa Umut Sarac <mustafaumutsarac@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave ,

Do you have photographs ?
I loved your trip , super !

Best ,
Umut


On 3/30/09, davep@xxxxxxxx <davep@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [I'm getitng a bit off 'practical coiling', so,
> at moderator Discretion....]
>
> >  So I decided to come to to Colorado Springs ....
>
> > That was last November...and I still haven't left.  In fact, I drove
> > over to 220 East Bijou Street (Tesla's old laboratory)
>   All the references I have seen give the location as 'near
>   Foote & Kiowa Streets'.  That's a bit over a mile from
>   '220 East Bijou'.  The exact location is a bit lost:
>   History says the lab building itself was destroyed (some
>   say burnt) roughly 1902 after Tesla left.  The usual location
>   given is off the (then) Colorado Springs street grid, in
>   whats now a residential neighborhood.
>    (I've been there.  8)>>)
>   There is (was? its been years) a historical marker
>   'in a park nearby'.  East Pike's Peak St if i recall.
>
> > just the other day; and yes, it was true...his place was
> > completely renovated
>    All the histories I have seen report Tesla's CS Springs
>    lab as burnt, or torn down for salvage, ca 1902.
>
> > and rebuilt to be a state building that supports challenged teens
> >--how sad!
>
> > The other sad part was, no one there EVEN KNEW.  I walked right in there
> > in the middle of the center of the building there was this large space
> > where these two business-stereotypes were pointing at some statistical
> > figures on a white board on an easel. I did not hesitate to openly
> > announce: "Hi...So where's Tesla?"
>    He's been dead near 60 years, he lived at a hotel in
>    Colorado Springs, while there: his lab was a mile or
>    so East...
>
> > The expressions in the entire room dropped and there was this long pause
> > of silence; you could hear a pin drop!  But I continued; "Yea, over 100
> > years ago this used to be Tesla's laboratory where he developed
> > technology much of which we still use today...although some of it was
> > repressed." After more jaw dropping and conversing with a completely
> > ignorant audience, I bid farewell as they had no clue even who Tesla
> > was. And this was his OLD LAB!!
>     The written record has the lab a mile or so east.
>
> > next door to what appeared to be a tavern--and the older guys there
> > STILL REMEMBER when it was Tesla's laboratory.
>     in 1899/1900?
>     That would make the 'older guys' 108 years old....
>
> > What a relief!  It was engaging to talk story with them for
> > hours in the cold afternoon.  Afterward, I walked behind the
> > lab/turned/counseling center, where there was an apartment building,
> > with rooms available.  $325 per month sounded like a great deal to live
> > that close to town, so I talked with the owner for a while and then took
> > off.  The coolest thing was the fact that even after all of the State's
> > rebuilding, you can still recognize his laboratory as some of what it
> > used to be: a large hangar!
>      The airplane, and the hangar to house it, were invented
>      invented in 1903.  I gues balloon sheds existed....
>      Tesla's Colorado Springs Notes and other sources describe
>      his CS Lab as built for him, to his requirements, a mile
>      or so east...
>
>      best
>       dwp
>
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