On his 100th birthday, Bob Rundle had a message for his family.

“When I woke up this morning, I told my daughter, ‘I made it,’” Rundle said.

Rundle, who turned 100 on Wednesday, is a living part of Longmont’s history. For decades, Rundle has watched Longmont change from his farm just southeast of the city on North 119th Street, in unincorporated Boulder County.

Looking out the window of his farmhouse, Rundle remembered one major difference between now and his childhood in the 1930s.

“Out there, in the street, there were no cars,” he said, reminiscing on when his neighborhood near Longmont was a little more quiet.

Born in Brighton, Rundle moved with his family to their North 119th Street farm during the Great Depression. Later, Rundle raised sugar beets on a Weld County farm near Sever

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