I lived there for five years before moving away in 1960 or 1961. I was in the seventh grade when we moved. Rocky Ford was a tiny place then, and still was when I dropped in for a visit in 2010. Not much had changed in the intervening fifty years.
I lived there from 70 - 80. The population was 5000 or so. It’s down to about 4000 now. I was there in 2011 for my 30th reunion. It’s a bit dustier than I remember, but mostly the same.