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Golden Bowl

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Golden Bowl bowling alley, built 1955.

July 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


Mecca Motel sign

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’50s-era Mecca Motel sign in Manitou Springs

July 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


Bowl-ero Bowling Center

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The Bowl-ero Bowling Center on W. Alameda.

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Although the original cartoon bowling sign may be gone, the Bowling Alley and Lounge
still stand in all of it’s mid-1950s glory.

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June 26th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


Applejack

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Applejack Liquor sign in Applewood. The sign is from 1963, moved across the parking lot from it’s original location when the store moved to the current building.

We have been busy here latel at The Denver Eye headquarters. But expect this site to post daily and hopefully twice daily, this summer!

June 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


La Fon motel sign

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’50s-era La Fon Motel sign from Manitou Springs

May 24th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin


Pig’N Whistle

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Long in a state of disrepair, Eddie Bohn’s Pig’N Whistle Hotel/Motel
on W. Colfax caught fire last night.

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Originally opened by larger-than-life boxer Eddie Bohn in the ’20s,
it was updated and added to over the years, until finally closing in 1991.

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This was a particularly bad graffiti day a couple of years ago.

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April 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


Trail’s End sign

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Trail’s End Motel sign towards the end of the US-40 trail on W. Colfax.

April 20th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


Mod bank building in Aurora

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This modernist bank on Colfax in Aurora probably dates to the early 1950s.

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The umbrella shaped columns (or trumpets), are reminescent of the motif used by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Johnson Wax Building from 10 or 15 years previous to this building.

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April 2nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


White Spot (Hooters)

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Hooters occupies this spot which once housed a White Spot coffee shop.

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These “Flying-Nun” roof buildings were designed by the famous LA Googie-style architectural team of Armet and Davis in 1961.

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The covered porch is an alteration, but Hooters has kept this building in pretty good shape.

March 10th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin


Crown Lanes sign

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Crown Lanes Bowling sign, from 1958, on South Federal.

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January 13th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by admin


White Spot

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One of the former locations of Denver restaurant chain White Spot. Now Los Toritos.

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Googie-style design 1961 by Los Angeles firm Armet & Davis, famous for coffee shops all over L.A.

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(There is another White Spot post on Tom Lundin’s site ModMidMod.)

November 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin