Just got back from a week in Estes Park! It was a wonderful trip, snow for a few days & balmy spring for the next few. Everything about that adorable little town made me love it. Hope to go back one day.
Bill Burrud once did an episode where they visited a nudist camp. I think it was one of the places near the Mexican border in San Diego Co. Watched by many adolescents, hiding under the covers, I'm sure.
Central City/Blackhawk are much different places today than when this film was made. Casino gambling has changed the face of both towns, with the facades mstly preserved to hide the casinos lurking on the other side of the walls. Many of the buildings in Central City were badly deteriorated before the coming of gambling, and wagering money has been spent pot at least restore the look of the towns. The casinos were badly hurt by covid, so it remains to be seen how many of the 18 casinos there before covid will survive. Oh, yes, Central City is the seat of Gilpin County, so the sherrifs shown would have been Gilpin County sheriffs rather than Central City. The towns were patrolled by their own police department rather than the sheriff. There was talk of merging the Central City police with the sheriff's department a few years back, but I don't know what became of that.
2:14, Central City is WEST of Denver. in the mountains, where the gold mines were .... we're off to a fine start, let's see where this Travelogue takes us ....asthmatic children performing ''ancient indian dances'' at an altitude with less oxygen than Denver proper. ..???... woodchuck, uh, marmot yeah? this was Painnnnnnnnful.
Just got back from a week in Estes Park! It was a wonderful trip, snow for a few days & balmy spring for the next few. Everything about that adorable little town made me love it. Hope to go back one day.
My family and I visited Colorado way back in1982 for a great vacation.
Best travelogue ever, Bill Burrrud!!
I was a paramedic in Estes Park in the 80s. I can see my old house on Big Horn Dr.
Looks like simpler days than nowadays.
Ah! Colorado before it’s hippie days. I would’ve loved to seen it.
Note the MIS-LABELING of the map at the very beginning (1:35 time)
Bill Burrud once did an episode where they visited a nudist camp. I think it was one of the places near the Mexican border in San Diego Co. Watched by many adolescents, hiding under the covers, I'm sure.
Central City/Blackhawk are much different places today than when this film was made. Casino gambling has changed the face of both towns, with the facades mstly preserved to hide the casinos lurking on the other side of the walls. Many of the buildings in Central City were badly deteriorated before the coming of gambling, and wagering money has been spent pot at least restore the look of the towns. The casinos were badly hurt by covid, so it remains to be seen how many of the 18 casinos there before covid will survive. Oh, yes, Central City is the seat of Gilpin County, so the sherrifs shown would have been Gilpin County sheriffs rather than Central City. The towns were patrolled by their own police department rather than the sheriff. There was talk of merging the Central City police with the sheriff's department a few years back, but I don't know what became of that.
2:14, Central City is WEST of Denver. in the mountains, where the gold mines were .... we're off to a fine start, let's see where this Travelogue takes us ....asthmatic children performing ''ancient indian dances'' at an altitude with less oxygen than Denver proper. ..???... woodchuck, uh, marmot yeah? this was Painnnnnnnnful.
Jewish Indians?
National Jewish Health is one of the best respiratory hospitals in the country and is still serving Colorado after 120+ years.