The Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service says wind gusts of up to 80 mph are possible for some areas of Interstate 80 until 9 p.m. on Monday, April 26.

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The agency posted this statement on its website:

''A High Wind Warning is currently in effect for I-80 near Arlington from now until 9 PM Monday and a High Wind Warning has been issued for northern and western Carbon County, including Rawlins, Shirley Basin, and Baggs for 10 AM to 6 PM Monday. Wind gusts between 55 and 80 MPH expected. High blow-over risk for light/high profile vehicles, including campers and tractor-trailers. For road conditions, refer to wyoroad.info. For the latest forecasts and headlines, weather.gov/cys."

CLASSIC CHEYENNE: The Cole Shopping Center

In December of 2020, Blue Federal Credit Union completed its new headquarters at the corner of Converse and Pershing in Cheyenne. Well, it’s not so much a ‘corner’ as it is the smooth edge of a roundabout, but anyway. Before Blue FCU built its new campus, the site was at one time a premier shopping destination for Cheyenne. From the 1950s through 2016 it was Cheyenne's Cole Shopping Center.

Local businessman Frank Cole bought the land that would become a Cheyenne gathering place in the 1950s when the corner of Converse and Pershing was the edge of town. Starting in 1952, three different Safeway grocery stores called the Cole home over its half-century of existence.  A plethora of other stores served the neighborhood too. From the movie theater to Blockbuster; there was the Cole Department Store, the fabric store, the East Branch of the Carnegie Library, and so much more.

As Cheyenne grew and changed, the Shopping Center fell into decline. Stores closed and new ones didn't take their places. The anchor of the area, Safeway, closed for good in 2016 with much of the rest following. In 2018 the buildings were demolished and the new construction began. 

The Cole was so integral to the neighborhood that when we asked on social media for folks’ memories we were flooded with hundreds of responses. 

Check out many of those memories below, along with several pictures of the Cole Shopping Center, mostly from near the end in the twenty-teens.


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