Usonian roofline
Usonian roofline from this house in Arapaho Hills in Littleton, probably built in the early 1960s.
July 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Usonian entranceway
Entranceway to a Usonian house in the mountains of Golden, house probably from the late-1950s
July 14th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Bandimere KBPI Rock & Roll Car Show
More pictures of vintage cars at the KBPI Rock & Roll Car Show at Bandimere
Speedway in Morrison.
This year, they had a wide variety of vehicles, cars, motorcycles, trucks…
I usually zero in on the vintage cars and hot rods.
And lastly, a couple of jet cars.
If you enjoy looking at hot rods at Bandimere, then here is a link to photos taken in
previous years: Hot Rods
July 12th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
KBPI Rock & Roll Car Show
Some photos from the KBPI Rock & Roll Car Show at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.
This year KBPI rolled the older hot rod car show into a much larger event to a huge success, Bandimere was packed!
This time all types of cars were welcome. I was glad to see this still included Rat Rods!
My vote for most bitchin
This car was not part of the car show, but I was happy to spot this Woodie framed up against
Green Mountain!
More tomorrow!
July 11th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Mecca Motel sign
’50s-era Mecca Motel sign in Manitou Springs
July 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Lakewood Haertling
The Fredrick House, a Lakewood mountain home designed by Boulder architect
Charles Haertling in 1965. He called it a Triframe Modular.
The streetside view of the roofline just gives you a hint of what the house looks like.
July 8th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Goodbye Mauro house
I went to Applewood yesterday to take a better photo of the unique Mauro House,
a Formalist design from 1969, but it was gone. Torn down for new construction.
July 7th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Park Hill Church
Entranceway to Park Hill Church, designed in the early 1950s by Eugene Sternberg
July 6th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
The Saint’s Tropics
1950’s era pictures of The Tropics nightclub on Morrison Road.
Great description from a comment on a related site:
“The sign said The Saint’s Tropics… inside there were hourly thunder storm sounds. Front doors were hand-carved wood to look like tiki faces.
The upper eating areas were around the outside of the main dance floor… take 2 small steps up to the eating area that had hollow banisters in front… and hidden water tub supplied water… and it would fall into the hallow banisters with lights flashing at the ends, so you could see the water coming down and the thunder sounds.
A very large tree branch was on the ceiling with moss on it and little twinkling white lights hidden here and there. The dancer’s floor was hydraulic and could be lifted up for shows. A big bird cage came down out of the ceiling above the dance floor for special shows and persons.
There were tiki masks on the back walls that had black lights on them. There was a small lighted alligator pit in one back corner of the club. (-ed!)
The chairs had animal skin prints on them. And the girls that worked there had animal-skin print-bikini suits with one shoulder strap.
Many, many headliners in music, comedy and dancers…etc.
It was a Very Cool Place and a bit ahead of it’s time inside and out…!”
Comment by Wasthere — May 31, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
Photos from an article in the Rocky Mountain Tiki Newsletter by Michelle Baldwin.
(Thanks to Zulu for the ok!)
July 2nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Lakeside Amusement Park Tower
Lakeside Amusement Park’s Tower, built in the Beaux-Arts style
in 1908. 102 years ago!
July 1st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Ute Trading Post sign
Arrowhead shaped Ute Trading Post “Curios” sign.
A roadside stop in Manitou Springs, from the 1930s, I believe.
July 1st, 2010 / No Comments » / by admin
N.C.A.R.
A short visit to I.M. Pei’s mid-1960s masterpeice, the National Center For
Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
June 30th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Bayer’s Articulated Wall
Bauhaus artist Herbert Bayer’s Articulated Wall, from 1986.
The sculpture is so pristine that this photo is untouched, right out of the camera.
The small dark spots toward the top are birds.
June 29th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
