Hello Cathy, This is interesting, and I'll be interested to see replies from some more knowledgeable than I am. For what it's worth, I came along about 30 years after the 1910 time. If you look at a map of Pueblo you'll see just south of the present day Arkansas River course a bunch of curly streets--actually streets built without conventional "blocks". These streets are on the bluff above the river. (Until the aftermath of the big flood the river was a mile or so north of the present course.) We called this group of curly streets "the blocks". Did the CF&I railroad own some company houses in "the blocks"? I don't know, but it is certainly possible. However, most of the houses in the blocks, particularly on the western end were large homes probably built by prosperous families. By the 1930s and 40s most were divided into apartments. That's my memory, anyway. I seem to recall a standpipe on the bluff above the river toward the western end of the blocks. If there was, it went away by the 1940s, I think. I never lived in that part of town, although my sweet darling love from high school did live there with her mom for a while. Finally, let me say that I'm possibly wrong about the whole thing. It's been a long time and my elderly brain is full of other things. Good luck in your research, Bob At 09:02 PM 4/23/2001 -0700, you wrote: > My grandfather used to talk about how the kids in Pueblo (around 1910) >would go to the "standpipe" to skate & play. He said it was the only place >with concrete near where they lived. They lived in "the blocks" (homes >owned by the CFI railroad) and the streets in that area had no sidewalks. > Does anyone know what and where the standpipe was/is? > Were the homes owned by the CFI railroad really called "the blocks"? > >Cathy Lampshire