| Another good week for our savvy SquareStaters!
Luis knew Mamie Eisenhower had been a Denver debutante, and also that the oldest wooden carousel now resides in Burlington. By the way, you can still ride it! I highly recommend it, and their Old Town Museum as well.
W0nderM0nkey identified the place where Mamie got busted for 'dancing too closely', the old Trocadero Ballroom at the original Elitch Gardens.
Eluning got two more, by knowing the Tower of Jewels:
was at Lakeside, and also that #4, with the walls containing trout and roses, were clear bricks of ice making up the incredible Leadville Ice Palace in 1896. (Click here for more info--it's amazing stuff!)
I had a hard time choosing how to write that Lakeside question, because there is so much interesting stuff about it. Lakeside is celebrating its 100th year THIS year! Its start-up was financed by area brewer Adolph Zang, and it was called The White City because it had so many electric lights strung all over.
Something I did NOT know is that Lakeside is its own Colorado Municipality, the second smallest one in the state, claiming 20 people in 2005. Their Town Hall is in a corner of the Lakeside Mall.
Because my son is a coaster nut, our family visited Lakeside a couple years back. The Clone and I had not been there in decades, and we were both surprised how nice it still is, and cheap compared to the new fake Elitch's!
I just happened to notice they had an on-site dump, so of course I had to check it out. It, and some shots of the old abandoned Speedway, made up Page 3 of my photo essay, Lakeside Derelicts. I'm afraid if you want to see the other 2 pages you would have to circle back around by clicking on the link that says Photo Essay Page. But if you feel like it, you are welcome.
The sole unanswered question this week was the one with the picture of a stone building with arches. If you thought they looked like a WPA project, you're right! Those are the horse stalls at the Colorado State Fairgrounds. They got a grant from the State Historical Fund in 2007 to repair the roofs so they can go on being used.
See you all again on Friday with more Colorado based pop culture trivia! |
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