What will happen to Lady Liberty when the longtime Denver company finally closes?
For more than four decades, Lady Liberty has been holding her torch high above the traffic on Federal Boulevard.
Granted, the statue's been through worse — including a decapitation."Someone got a ladder and unscrewed her head off," Bo says of the 1986 incident."But the metal on top was so sharp that there was blood all over it." Bo and Sherry's late father, Bob Ramsour, who was born at the house that became his workplace, officially joined the Federal Heating fold after serving in the Navy during World War II, and his timing was ideal. In the late 1940s,"Public Service Company, which is now Xcel, started to bring natural gas into the west side of Denver," Bo explains,"and they were overwhelmed having to convert all of these old furnaces from coal to natural gas.
By the early 1980s, when Bo came aboard full-time after earning a business degree from the University of Northern Colorado, the parts sideline had become the cornerstone of Federal Heating's success, much to the chagrin of its rivals."We got a lot of flak from our competitors and even from some of the manufacturers," he recalls."They would say, 'You're taking away from the install business.
Eventually, the collection of sculptures was placed on Federal Heating's roof. But during the late 1970s, Sherry says,"somebody scaled the back of our building and threw all of them into the alley. So we don't have them anymore, which is really sad."The vandalism didn't prevent Bob from creating his masterpiece."He decided he wanted to make the Statue of Liberty, and it was quite an undertaking," Bo maintains.
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