The Colfax Museum would like to recognize all of the creative people that have contributed to our cause. It's so true that Colfax Avenue has inspired countless painters, photographers, musicians, poets, writers, artists and creative types of all kinds
Today we want to thank the incredible Karl Christian Krumpholz, a brilliant artist and true Colfax devotee, for his contributions to our museum, including this Schuyler Colfax illustration. Vexatious Rickets indeed!
With all the dispensaries in town, I thought Marley Liquor was a little bit comical, and very Colfax! They even have a boot to boot! (photo by Jonny B.)
The old Chateau Motor Lodge sign on Pinterest. Looks like it is resting
comfortably in someone’s living room. The former Chateau Motor Lodge at
8300 East Colfax Avenue at Valentia Street in Denver. Now the former
Motel is the Orlando’s Apartments. (courtesy East Colfax NBHD)
Originally taken for the Aurora Sun newspaper, this photo was shot in
1976 at Aurora Bumper Cars located at East Colfax Avenue and Lima
Street in Aurora. (Courtesy the Aurora Museum Collection)
1959 KUDY "Cutie" Radio promo featuring DJ Joe Flood and stamped by the Nides Record Shop once across the street from the Aladdin Theatre on East Colfax. (courtesy J. Lee collection)
Shared with permission by the family of Edward S. Goldman.
Tricky Dicky's, a nod to President Nixon, was a strip club at the corner of Colfax Avenue & Clarkson Street in the 1970's. This is a 1973 realist painting of the club by Edward Goldman. Today it's Sancho's Broken Arrow, a Grateful Dead/Jam Band themed Bar.
An episode of the CBS television series “Route 66” was filmed in Denver on June 30, 1963. In “A Cage In Search Of A Bird”, Tod and Linc are in Denver, Colorado and become involved in the story of the gangster that helped commit the Great Mint Robbery. On December 17, 1922, $200,000 in five-dollar bills from the Federal Reserve Bank being stored at the Denver Mint were stolen. The robber, never caught, is now an old man.
In the episode there are great 1963 shots of Denver, Colfax Avenue, Historic US Route 40, 16th Street, Capitol Hill Neighborhood and the following:
1. El Rancho Restaurant on US 40.
2. The Tepees on US 40.
3. Rooftop view of 17th Ave from the Cosmopolitan Hotel across from the Brown Palace Hotel.
4. Colorado National Bank Interior.
5. Old Denver Bus Station.
6. Pioneer Sculpture on Colfax Avenue.
7. The Denver Mint on Colfax.
8. Gotham Hotel (now apartments) at Grant and 12th.
9. Stapleton Airfield terminal and control tower.
10. Downtown strip club.
11. The Gold Nugget Tap Room & Elite Liquors at Larimer and 16th.
12. Paramount Theater at 16th & California.
13. May D&F & Putt-Putt golf on 16th Street.
14. Scotch & Sirloin Restaurant at the Gotham Hotel on Grant and 12th Avenue.
15. Square dancing at City Park pavilion.
16. Rocky Mountain News on Colfax.
17. Tabor Theater.
18. JC Penny’s on 16th.
Join us Saturday, February 24, 2018, for a celebration of Johnny Cash's Birthday at The Owl Saloon at 5026 E. Colfax Avenue in Denver. The Man in Blackhawk (Jonny Barber) will re-create the Live at Folsom Prison album in its' entirety, which came out 50 years ago this year! Show starts at 9:00pm.
Home of Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the U.S., under Ulysses Grant, at corner of Market St. (now Colfax Ave.) and Taylor St. in South Bend, Indiana. Demolished.
Robert Stanley and his crew at Stanley Aviation, not too far from East Colfax!
Robert Stanley and his team developed an encapsulated seat ejection system
suitable for the B-58 Hustler which flew at high speed (Mach 2) and
altitude (70,000 ft). An interesting side note is that Stanley borrowed
bears from the Denver Zoo for testing the ejection capsules.
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