-
Posts
- Letter from Neal Cassady to Justin Brierly, October 23, 1944
- Henry Roth House, Postscript
- waiting for Ray
- Brown Palace Menu, November 19, 1904
- Mr. Skully on Mount Prospect Cemetery
- Allen True and the Denver Courts of Justice
- The Ways Of Barbers
- The Pig N’ Whistle: Eddie Bohn’s Empire on West Colfax
- In Memoriam: Father Joseph Hirsch
- Rainbow Music Hall, January 26th, 1979
- Denver Post, 1926
- Fifty Two Originals: Denver Artists Guild Founders
- In Praise of Rediscovered Founders
- Denver’s First African American Architect
- Flood of ’64 – “Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell”
- Sunday, February 26, 1950
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Drive By History, Part 3: National Humane Alliance Fountain
- Photographing Denver 1984–1992
- Silas Soule, Assassinated
- Denver’s Victory Gardens
- Rock-A-Billy Willie Lewis
- The Rockmount Building: 100 Years Young
- 3 Years
- Tivoli-Union Brewery: Abandoned, Explored, Restored
- Drive By History, Part 2: Camp Weld
- The Flood of 1965
- Houlihan’s, Tamarac Square (cultural mecca), circa 1976
- Mile High Housing Association
- Pope visits Harkness Heights – enterprising locals see opportunity
- Harkness Heights O! My Harkness Heights
- B50 Happy Hour at El Camino
- remembering city spirit, part 2
- Walabi’s 1982
- The Jonas Brothers (Real and Retro)
- Taki’s Golden Bowl
- The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado
- Downtown Denver: Heart of the Queen
- Drive By History, Part 1: Platte River Trail
- Denver Block 074: 14th and Lawrence a Century Ago
- “Unscripted”
- Rocky Mountain News. 1859-2009
- The Western Slavonic Lodge
- B-Happy Hour at the Club 404
- More Hard Times
- St. John’s Church in the Wilderness
- Denver’s Great Telescopes (19th and 21st Century)
- Three Short Stories about my Irish Family
- Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The First Lady’s Denver Years
- Dogs who happen to live in Denver, part 1
- Celebrity Sports Center, 1960–1994
- Italian Sausage
- North Denver and Me
- Remembering Zeckendorf Plaza
- Mount Evans or Bust: “A Castle in the Sky”
- A Bull in a China Shop
- Remember City Spirit? I do.
- My Brother’s Car
- Riverside
- Auraria, Rhythm of the Neighborhood
- Trains
- Skylark (the old skylark, that is)
- The Barnes Dance
- Under the Viaducts
- Things To Do In Denver Before You Die
- Lakeside Amusement Park
- Fun and Games at DIA
- Chuck’s Do-Nuts: Two Perspectives
- diving in denver
- Visiting the Forney
- Building the Big Blue Bear
- The Henry Roth Houses on Fox Street
- The Last Great Coffeehouse?
- Livin’ at the Rex
- Keith
- The First Mayor of Globeville
- Three Dimensional Man
- Sid King
- thoughts on the retail economy, 2008
- Feed The Kids
- Trucker’s Terminal Implosion, Part 2
- Trucker’s Terminal Implosion, 1992
- Rogue Bench
- rejection letters, 1933-1937
- Mercury Cafe, December 1982
- Denver traffic, 1959
- Because It Had To Be Done
- This Is My Home
- Remembering Sand Creek
- Thanks, Highland Style
- bathhouse crew part 1
- National Velvet, and thoughts on public art in Denver
- The Accidental City
- What’s A Buckfifty?
- The buckfifty manifesto
Categories
Tags
- 1860s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- art
- Auraria
- Baker
- Ben Stapleton
- Brothers Bar
- Bungalow
- city spirit
- Colfax
- coors field
- Craftsman
- denver artists guild
- denver art museum
- denver history
- denver public library
- downtown
- Drive By History
- Gladys Caldwell Fisher
- Globeville
- Henry Roth
- highland
- John Edward Thompson
- Kim Allen
- lower downtown
- Mary Lou Egan
- Matt Holman
- michael thornton
- public art
- Quigg Newton
- riverside cemetery
- Rocky Mountain News
- sand creek
- Sharon Feder
- tracy weil
- truckers terminal
- two significant guys
Recent Comments
- Robert on Celebrity Sports Center, 1960–1994
- Shirley Schmidt on The Pig N’ Whistle: Eddie Bohn’s Empire on West Colfax
- Helen stoner on North Denver and Me
- David on Celebrity Sports Center, 1960–1994
- Dan on Chuck’s Do-Nuts: Two Perspectives
Links: Arts and Culture
Links: Denver History
Links: What's Up?
Category Archives: history
Drive By History, Part 3: National Humane Alliance Fountain
It says thusly: 1907 Presented by The National Humane Alliance Hermon Lee Ensign Founder B50 Note: Between 1906 and 1912, the National Humane Alliance presented somewhere around 125 Horse Watering Troughs to cities and towns across the country, including Denver. … Continue reading
Posted in history, places
Tagged 13th Ave, 1900s, Colfax, downtown, Drive By History, Horse Watering Trough, National Humane Alliance, public art, Tremont Pl
4 Comments
Silas Soule, Assassinated
Rocky Mountain News April 24, 1865 p. 2 c. 1 The Homicide Last Night Our city was thrown into a feverish excitement last evening by assassination of Captain S. S. Soule, of the Colorado First. The sad affair took place … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged 1860s, assassination, downtown, Ned Wynkoop, sand creek, Silas Soule
Leave a comment
The Rockmount Building: 100 Years Young
—by Steve Weil The Rockmount Building celebrates its 100th birthday this year, but the history of the site goes to 1859. As my family has been working at this building for 3 generations it feels like part of the family. … Continue reading
Posted in history, places
Tagged Fisher & Fisher Architects, Jack A. Weil, Jack B. Weil, lodo, Papa Jack, Rockmount Ranch Wear, Steve Weil
2 Comments
Drive By History, Part 2: Camp Weld
It says thusly: This memorial is the property of the State of Colorado — This is the Southwest corner of Camp Weld established September 1861 for Colorado Civil War Volunteers, Named for Lewis L. Weld, first Secretary of Colorado territory. … Continue reading
Posted in history, places
Tagged 1860s, Amos Steck, Black Kettle, Camp Weld, Drive By History, Ned Wynkoop, Neva, Silas Soule, White Antelope
5 Comments