Drop City
Colorado
The domes here were built from the chopped-off roofs of cars.
Four art students bought seven acres north of Trinidad in 1960, and started building houses out of car parts. They cut geometric panels from automobile roofs and other cheap scrap, then assembled them into domes and strange many-sided shells. The Firesign Theatre ran a comic pitch for the place. Kids, tear the top off your daddy's car, and send it, along with ten cents, to Drop City, Colorado. The founders called what they were doing Drop Art, and the whole settlement was meant to be a work you could live inside. Buckminster Fuller gave the group his Dymaxion award in 1967. That same year hundreds of hippies showed up for something called the Joy Festival. One of the founders hid in his dome the whole time, then quit the next day, disgusted. The last dome came down in the late nineties, taken apart by a truck repair shop that now sits on part of the ground.
Wayside reads this to you as you drive past, timed to arrive before the place does. Plan a route through here.
The Firesign Theatre folks had a commercial—"kids, tear the top off your daddy's car, and send it, together with 10 cents in cash or coin, to Drop City, Colorado..."
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