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Bluebird Theatre
Photo © 2012 Scott Murdock
Guest photographer Scott Murdock with an iconic shot of the Bluebird Theater on Colfax.
The theater was designed by Harry Edbrooke in 1913 for John Thompson and was originally called the Thompson Theater. While movies had been playing in town before 1913, the Bluebird was the first theater in Denver designed specifically for screening films. Edbrooke is probably the most famous and prolific of downtown Denver’s architects. (And he later designed the Ogden Theater for Thompson as well.)
Harry Huffman, the Denver movie theater mogul (who built Shangri-La), bought the theater in 1921, changed the name and added the first Bluebird signage, which originally had a very large bird placed on top. I assumed the sign was replaced with the current Art Deco sign in the ’30s.
May 22nd, 2012 / No Comments » / by Scott Murdock
Royal Tavern sign
Photo © 2011 Scott Murdock
Streamline Modern sign from the 1930s in Manitou Springs.
October 3rd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Scott Murdock
Dun Rovin’ Motel sign
Photo © 2011 Scott Murdock
The Dun Rovin’ Motel sign in Colorado Springs. Nice use of the ’50s boomerang shape
(framed with Pike’s Peak in the background!)
July 22nd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Scott Murdock
Stapleton Control Tower
Photo © 2011 Scott Murdock
Stapleton Airport Control Tower, designed 1960 by Paul Reddy. It is still standing today.
July 18th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Scott Murdock
Denver Coliseum
Photo © 2011 Scott Murdock
Completed 1952, the Denver Coliseum was designed by the Father of Thin-Shell
Construction, Anton Tedesko. It incorporated concrete thin-shell techniques perfected
by Tadesko while building airplane hangers for the U.S. Air Force.
(Note from editor: photo from new contributor Scott Murdock, photographer and
editor of the outstanding website http://www.airforcebase.net/)
June 21st, 2011 / No Comments » / by Scott Murdock
