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

Жыл бұрын

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

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 )

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

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

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.😍

Back in a day when shopping was happening in downtown!

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.

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.

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/

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.

That Walgreens is still there lol

@billyoung8118

Жыл бұрын

Now has the light rail line in front of it

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Great footage! Quality film and camera operation.

This is awesome thank you. 303!!!

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

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.

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

@mmstish1

2 ай бұрын

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

@jle4433

2 ай бұрын

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

@mmstish1

2 ай бұрын

Did you live in the Colfax area. Avondale?

@jle4433

2 ай бұрын

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

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

Nice place , wheres this at ?