In partnership with History Colorado, join Blake for this special bonus episode of abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast where he takes a deeper dive into the history of the original All-American Ruins location from his childhood: the abandoned dairy farm at the Modern Woodmen of American Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Colorado Springs, CO.

Watch the entire "The Land of Sunshine" 1933 PSA about the MWA Tuberculosis Sanatorium here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yft_uoglRzM (courtesy of the Pikes Peak Library District)
Watch the entire United States Public Health Service's "This is TB" 1949 PSA here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQhclE6Sl0&t=10s (courtesy of the National Library of Medicine)
Learn more about the tuberculosis epidemic in Colorado here: https://www.cspm.org/cos-150-story/the-city-of-sunshine/ (courtesy of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum)
To read the transcript of this episode, click here: https://www.blakepfeil.com/aar-podcast.html

Special thanks:

Sam Bock at History Colorado
Kevin & Marie Bush at the Woodmen Valley Fire Department
Matt Mayberry, Hillary Mannion, and Susan Conde at the Pioneers Museum
The staff at the Pikes Peak Library District
Archivist Sister Stephanie McReynolds at Mt. Saint Francis Nursing Center
K from the No Tracers Podcast
Leah White at Modern Woodmen of America Fraternal Financial

You can join the All-American Ruins Expedition Club now: https://plus.acast.com/s/abandoned-the-all-american-ruins-podcast.

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