Out-Post Bar
A great tilted martini glass sign at the Out-Post Bar in Westminster.
January 30th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Liquor Box
A lonely liquor store on N. Federal. Look closely and you can see the street sign.
January 28th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Phil Urso home movies
Denver jazz great, the late Phil Urso, hamming it up with fellow members
of the Elliot Lawrence Band in this rare 1950 8mm home movie.
This happy, short clip features Howie Mann, Joe Techner and Phil Urso
in suspenders.
Phil Urso had a great tone, somewhere between Lester Young and Sonny
Rollins. He played with many jazz legends but is best known for his mid-’50s
sides with Chet Baker.
Here is a much longer clip of the Elliot Lawrence Band from 1949, touring
around Golden, Lookout Mountain, Mt. Evans (Urso showing up at the top of
the mountain around 5:50 & 6:15), then off to Utah where Phil Urso and Jimmy
Padget look parched (at 7:50). Phil shows up one more time at about 9:15!
One last clip, the first solo on this wonderful Elliot Lawrence recording
Elevation is Phil Urso on tenor. Dig that tone!!
January 26th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Driftwood Hotel sign
The Driftwood Hotel sign on E. Colfax. It points to the hotel on the other side of the street!
The driftwood from the Driftwood Hotel.
January 25th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
The Grim Reapers
(Ronnie Montrose: top, unknown: bottom left, Rick Palan: middle, Ron Akers: right)
Ronnie Montrose, circa 1966, in Denver band The Grim Reapers (or sometimes called
The Grim Reapers of the New World).
Ronnie wasn’t born in Denver, but moved here when he was two. He got his first guitar in 1964 and formed the Grim Reapers a year or so later. After the Reapers, Ronnie moved to San Francisco and formed the band Sawbuck, landed the guitar spot on Van Morrison’s Tupelo Honey, joined the Edgar Winter Band, then formed his most famous group Montrose with singer Sammy Hagar.
(photo borrowed from Grand Junction Free Press)
January 5th, 2012 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Happy New Year from the Front Range
I have been taking a little break over the holidays, but here is a photo looking out over
Golden, Jan 1st 2012!
January 2nd, 2012 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Seasons Greetings from Zeckendorf Plaza
Photos © 2011 Alan Golin Gass, FAIA
A seasonal late-60s-era holiday shot of Zeckendorf Plaza, with lights displayed under the hyperbolic-paraboloid roof and out in the plaza over the ice skating rink.
A famous “lost” I. M. Pei & Associates design, the plaza was built in 1959 and sadly torn
down in 1996.
December 23rd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Alan G. Gass
