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Ethiopians in Colorado

Continental Oil Fire #8

Continental Oil Fire #7

Continental Oil Fire #6

Continental Oil Refinery Explosion and Fire

1976 Winter Olympic Games - Colorado's Promotion, Planning & Protest

Wrecking Ball Ends Dance for Cinderella City

Shopping Center Launched

Huge Englewood Shopping City Set to Open

Remembering Cinderella City

Juanita Ramos née Solano, poses with her husband, Tony Ramos and members of their wedding party in front of St. Cajetan's Catholic Church, 1190 Ninth (9th) Street in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The bride wears a wedding dress with short sleeves and a full length skirt, she holds a bouquet. The groom holds her arm and wears a white coat, bow tie and dark pants. A woman in a coat, holds a bouquet and wears a veil on her head.

Studio portrait of the Edwardo Lopez and Ida Chavez Lopez wedding party, Denver, Colorado. They are identified (left to right) back row: unknown woman, Manuel Moya, Racheal Chavez Moya, and Tony Lopez. Front row: Edwardo Lopez and his bride Ida Chavez Lopez. Ida wears a silk and lace wedding gown a lace veil and holds a bouquet of roses. Edwardo wears a suit and has a boutonniére. Racheal Chavez Moya wears a hat.

Pedro Lobato and Esperanza Córdova de Lobato

Weddings

Cripple Creek Fires, 1896

View of the Art Deco style Mayan Theater (Montana S. Fallis, architect, 1930) at 110 Broadway Street in the Speer Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The four story building is stone clad with Pre-Columbian motifs and a bas relief of a ritual officiate in multi-color terra cotta ornament by Julius P. Ambrusch of the Denver Terra Cotta Company. The marquee reads: "Oscar Winners, Room With A View, Color of Money, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, My Sweet Little Village."

Detailed view of the top of the facade of the Mayan Theater (architect Montana S. Fallis, 1930) at 110 Broadway in the Speer neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a polychrome terracotta Mayan figure (crafted by Julius P. Ambrusch of the Denver Terra Cotta Company) on the front of the Art Deco-style theater. The facade was restored by architects Midyette-Seieroe, in 1985.

Night view of Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado; shows snow and movie theaters. Electric signs read: "Marquette," "Iris Theater," "Isis," and "The Nanking Chop Suey, Pool."

Denver Movie Theaters: A Look Back

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH47)

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH47)

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH47)

Denver Advertising Card Scrapbook (WH7)

Jeff Griffiths, 8, as the wicked Darth Vader. October 30, 1977. Photo by Bill Perry. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

E.T. jack-o-lantern at John Amesse Elementary School. October 27, 1982. Photo by Laura Lynn Fistler. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

“Don’t let children go empty handed on Halloween.” October 26, 1966. Unidentified photographer. Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection

Halloween In Denver, 1960-1988

Snow is piled up in front of the Assay Office of Welch and Bancroft on Eldorado Avenue in Eldora, a mining town in Boulder County, Colorado. An unidentified man sts on a log in the left midground at the base of a mound of snow where two young boys play. One of the boys holds a sled propped up on one end. The other stands above him on the pile, possibly wearing skis.

10th Mountain Division soldiers parade down a street at Camp Hale, Colorado. They are wearing their "whites" the winter camouflage uniforms and carry white skis on their right shoulder as rifles are normally carried while on parade.

Bethany Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Denver Gospel Church)

Denver Mashups

Top Hat Beer label, circa 1965. Ephemera Collection, WH2026

Aspen Gold label, circa 1968. Ephemera Collection, WH2026

Jet Malt Liquor label, circa 1967. Ephemera Collection, WH2026

Tivoli Brewing Company Labels

A young woman poses in a costume that includes shorts, high heels, print fabric, and a stovepipe hat.

Studio portrait of E. M. Winterbourne. He wears glasses, a suit, and tie.

Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their brass hose nozzle proudly on display in front of them.

Hipster or History?

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