I remember those old red and yellow buses. This was the Denver of my early childhood and the video makes me want to walk into the screen and go back, just for a day. .
@FireflyLightningBug
2 жыл бұрын
Some were trolley buses (perhaps not in this video though). Amazing...
@markmark2080
3 ай бұрын
Back when Denver WAS 'A Great City', very thankful I was able to experience it, and Boulder back in those golden years...
@BenjaminM2804
2 жыл бұрын
A wonderful film. I was born in 1951 and raised in Denver. At ine time we lived near the Capitol Hill neighborhood and I would walk to the May D&F Co. to watch the putt-putt golf or ice/ roller-skating (depending on the season) in the sunken courtyard outside. This store put on a wonderful Christmas display in those immense store windows, while Santas rang bells outside for charity organizations. Feeling good memories.😍
@derrinredfeather
2 жыл бұрын
The slanted A frame building with large windows is the old May D&F store and building. The building with the clock tower is the old D&F Tower that's still standing. I grew up there in the Denver area where I still live. I've been here since 1956. At the beginning of the video at the State Capitol, the man with the yellow hat on is a Yellow Taxi Driver. The last part of the video is 16th street before they turned it into a walking mall.
@Greg-ww4zm
2 жыл бұрын
My Uncle worked there before I was born.
@teddownum7428
Жыл бұрын
Yes! That's the Zeckendorf Plaza "hyperbolic paraboloid" outside the old May D&F. Designed by the legendary architect I.M. Pei, and torn down in the nineties by some philistinic real-estate jerks in the name of "urban renewal."
@gabriellam1894
Жыл бұрын
I recognized 16th street right away & the Daniel's & Fisher Tower! It surprisingly hasn't changed much since the 60s besides the fact there aren't cars allowed there now :D this was amazing to see though (late 90s baby, born and raised Denver, CO )
@Starchild1980
3 жыл бұрын
5:02 that was the old Broadway/Brighton Blvd viaduct, one of the last ones to go in downtown Denver. It's featured in the opening of Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead
@salamanders6969
Жыл бұрын
Back in a day when shopping was happening in downtown!
@CharlesBukowski0
Жыл бұрын
The observation platform has to be on 621 17th Street, also sometimes called the "First National Bank Building" and the "First Interstate Tower South".
@rumleyrum5839
4 жыл бұрын
Beginning is the state capital building and the "mile high" marker step. Then inside the capital building. I don't recall what building the observation deck was on, but, I believe it was a bank or an insurance company. The end is the old May D&F store and plaza outside on the 16th Street side. As I recall I.M. Pei was the architect. BTW, it is gone now, torn down and replaced with a hotel. Hard to believe how downtown Denver has changed since that film was made. Some time stamp observations. 0:48 across the street from the front of the Colorado Capital building 1:20 the “mile high” marker step in going up to the capital building entrance 1:29 capital entrance 1:40 view from the capital entrance across Civic Plaza to I believe (at the time) was the county court house. 2:00 Civil War cannon in the park across from the capital. 2:26 Inside view of the capital dome from the rotunda. 2:53 view of the Hilton Hotel from (Broadway ?) 3:04 not sure of the building, but, where the observation deck was 3:12 looks like the view to the northwest 3:24 view southwest with the Daniels and Fisher department store clock tower. The clock tower was left standing (historical structure) when the store building was demolished. 3:38 close up of the clock tower with Speer Blvd crossing over the Valley Highway (I-25) 3:47 17th Street (?) 3:03 view to the southeast with the state capital building 4:23 view to the south. If the clouds weren’t there you would be able to see Pikes Peak 5:02 view to the northwest. Viaduct over the old train yards. Not sure of the street (18th, 19th or 20th ?). 5:14 view to the north 5:58 May D&F Department store 6:36 Zeckendorf Plaza. Ice skating in the winter, miniature golf in the summer. 7:11 pedestrian bridge over Cleveland Place from the May D&F to the Hilton Hotel to the east 7:59 looks like 16th Street
@biffbayberry8070
4 жыл бұрын
That May D&F store was part of the Zeckendorf Plaza. Mini golf in the summer, ice skating in the winter. You can read more here: buckfifty.org/2009/01/28/remembering-zeckendorf-plaza/
@matthewchipman5596
2 жыл бұрын
Wow loved the video! Too bad I was born 11 years too late! My Dad started living out in Denver. From October 1965 to the spring of 1967.
@FawleyJude
Жыл бұрын
2:54 The blue and white tower to the right of the Hilton is the Petroleum Club building. 3:02 United Bank tower 3:25 Western Federal Savings tower on the left, evidently still under construction. When they were done, there was a big "W" on each face of that white cube at the top 3:49 On the left next to the Western Federal building is the Equitable Building. Up the street on the next block is the American National Bank building. It was an older building that they covered with a '60s facade of blue panels, shown here, which were removed in the '90s. Across the street from it to the right is the old Guaranty Bank building. I don't know what the brown building in the foreground is. 4:03 The white building on the left with the "needle" on top is the Capitol LIfe building. The white building to the right of the Capitol is the State Capitol Annex. Petroleum Club building on the right. 5:17 Building on the left foreground, the U.S. Customs House
@scoon2117
9 ай бұрын
This is awesome thank you. 303!!!
@lquinn7212
2 жыл бұрын
The building labeled as the County court house is the Denver Civic Center. The building with the angled roof was the May D and F store.
@BIGLOVE4TRUTH
2 жыл бұрын
There uses to be an ice skating rink right there integer winter.
@boi50s
4 жыл бұрын
They are on the observation deck at First National Bank on 17th St.
@ReelLifeCanada
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@rumleyrum5839
4 жыл бұрын
I knew it was on 17th St, but, I didn't remember whether the building was a bank or an insurance company.
@jfiers
2 жыл бұрын
Currently the Magnolia Hotel!
@phillipvigil2840
2 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/621_17th_Street - it was on the top of this building.
@MaxZomboni
Ай бұрын
It's now the BMO bank building. You can still the old observation deck at the top of the building. The top two floors were a fancy restaurant and the observation deck was above that. But it was all converted to more office space sometime shortly after this video was filmed.
@lumberjack3548
2 жыл бұрын
@5:17 This is right at 20th ST and N. Broadway. Location of the Holy Ghost Church, built in 1943.
@RIXRADvidz
Жыл бұрын
5:57, the Zeckendorf Plaza torn down because it was ''old and ugly'' Denver sacrificed a Lot of amazing architecture because it was ''old and ugly'' wonderful works by famous architects, GONE when I first crash landed in 89, you could walk right into the capitol building and climb the dome to the outside observation level been good to me
@plinthley
4 жыл бұрын
Great footage! Quality film and camera operation.
@sergioaranda2357
3 жыл бұрын
That Walgreens is still there lol
@billyoung8118
Жыл бұрын
Now has the light rail line in front of it
@MaxZomboni
Ай бұрын
I don't believe that Walgreens is still there. The Walgreens in this video is at 16th and Court Street. I believe that was the old Majestic building before it was torn down to build the current office towers on that block. The original Walgreens location at Broadway and Colfax is also shown in this video at 2:53, but it appears to be vacant at that time. That location later became Jerry's News Stand, until RTD tore it down to Build Civic Center Station. I believe Walgreens has several locations on 16th Street before it got the current location.
@princesscake70
3 жыл бұрын
Isn't the glass building -- the one with all the windows about 6:10 - isn't that the old May D&F building downtown Denver, might still be called Daniels and Fischer in 1962 - on 16th street. Torn down early 90s. I remember they had a huge sale before they tore it down. I was in college. Walked up after classes at Auraria to go.
@BIGLOVE4TRUTH
2 жыл бұрын
Looking across from the capitol steps is the city and county building. Adjacent is civic center park.
@ajharmon864
2 жыл бұрын
Fist National bank on 17th st. Which is now the Bank of the West. No longer and observation tower as there is nothing to observe lol.
@jle4433
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to see some footage that wasn't in downtown, like Federal Boulevard, Colorado Boulevard, Colfax, etc.
@mmstish1
5 ай бұрын
Did you live in colfax / federal area? I did.
@jle4433
5 ай бұрын
@@mmstish1 Monaco and Leetsdale, Monaco and 6th, Colorado and Yale, Colfax and Quebec, Broadway and Alameda.
@mmstish1
5 ай бұрын
Did you live in the Colfax area. Avondale?
@jle4433
5 ай бұрын
@@mmstish1 One of my houses was on Colfax and Quebec. I don't miss it.
@darrellsadler2848
Жыл бұрын
It looks as if the Walgreen's on 16th Street, Downtown Denver, has always been and will always be a permanent fixture at its current location on the 16th Street Mall.
@MaxZomboni
Ай бұрын
It has been at the current location a long time, but not always. It was originally at Broadway and Colfax. That location is shown at 2:53 in this video, but appears to be vacant at the time of filming. The Walgreens location shown later in the video is at 16th Street and Court street. I believe it had several other locations on the 16th Street before getting the current location.
@StabbinJoeScarborough
11 ай бұрын
Nice place , wheres this at ?
@LaDonnaShielded-kc7zm
Жыл бұрын
6:41 there used to be ice skating there. Is there still?
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