1962, sightseeing and a view from an observation platform, Denver Colorado

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  • 1962, sightseeing and a view from an observation platform, Denver Colorado
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  • @vjhartford7722
    @vjhartford7722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    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
      @FireflyLightningBug 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some were trolley buses (perhaps not in this video though). Amazing...

  • @derrinredfeather
    @derrinredfeather 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    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
      @Greg-ww4zm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Uncle worked there before I was born.

    • @teddownum7428
      @teddownum7428 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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
      @gabriellam1894 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
    @Starchild1980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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

  • @rumleyrum5839
    @rumleyrum5839 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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
      @biffbayberry8070 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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/

  • @FawleyJude
    @FawleyJude ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

  • @boi50s
    @boi50s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    They are on the observation deck at First National Bank on 17th St.

    • @ReelLifeCanada
      @ReelLifeCanada  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you.

    • @rumleyrum5839
      @rumleyrum5839 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I knew it was on 17th St, but, I didn't remember whether the building was a bank or an insurance company.

    • @jfiers
      @jfiers 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Currently the Magnolia Hotel!

    • @phillipvigil2840
      @phillipvigil2840 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/621_17th_Street - it was on the top of this building.

    • @MaxZomboni
      @MaxZomboni หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @lquinn7212
    @lquinn7212 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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
      @BIGLOVE4TRUTH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There uses to be an ice skating rink right there integer winter.

  • @scoon2117
    @scoon2117 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is awesome thank you. 303!!!

  • @plinthley
    @plinthley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great footage! Quality film and camera operation.

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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

  • @sergioaranda2357
    @sergioaranda2357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That Walgreens is still there lol

    • @billyoung8118
      @billyoung8118 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now has the light rail line in front of it

    • @MaxZomboni
      @MaxZomboni หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
    @princesscake70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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
    @BIGLOVE4TRUTH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Looking across from the capitol steps is the city and county building. Adjacent is civic center park.

  • @ajharmon864
    @ajharmon864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @darrellsadler2848
    @darrellsadler2848 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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
      @MaxZomboni หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @salamanders6969
    @salamanders6969 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Back in a day when shopping was happening in downtown!

  • @CharlesBukowski0
    @CharlesBukowski0 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The observation platform has to be on 621 17th Street, also sometimes called the "First National Bank Building" and the "First Interstate Tower South".

  • @matthewchipman5596
    @matthewchipman5596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @lumberjack3548
    @lumberjack3548 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    @5:17 This is right at 20th ST and N. Broadway. Location of the Holy Ghost Church, built in 1943.

  • @BenjaminM2804
    @BenjaminM2804 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.😍

  • @markmark2080
    @markmark2080 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back when Denver WAS 'A Great City', very thankful I was able to experience it, and Boulder back in those golden years...

  • @jle4433
    @jle4433 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd like to see some footage that wasn't in downtown, like Federal Boulevard, Colorado Boulevard, Colfax, etc.

    • @mmstish1
      @mmstish1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you live in colfax / federal area? I did.

    • @jle4433
      @jle4433 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mmstish1 Monaco and Leetsdale, Monaco and 6th, Colorado and Yale, Colfax and Quebec, Broadway and Alameda.

    • @mmstish1
      @mmstish1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you live in the Colfax area. Avondale?

    • @jle4433
      @jle4433 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mmstish1 One of my houses was on Colfax and Quebec. I don't miss it.

  • @LaDonnaShielded-kc7zm
    @LaDonnaShielded-kc7zm ปีที่แล้ว

    6:41 there used to be ice skating there. Is there still?

  • @StabbinJoeScarborough
    @StabbinJoeScarborough 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice place , wheres this at ?