Why does a 1960s Colorado Springs mayor have a monument that no one notices?

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Monument to Eugene McCleary, former Mayor of Colorado Springs (1967-73), near I-25 and Garden of the Gods Road with Pikes Peak in the background.

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Photograph by Stewarts Commercial Photographers, © Pikes Peak Library District, 013-5644

Photograph by Stan Payne, Courtesy of Special Collections, Pikes Peak Library District, 004-691 2