My wife and I stayed here in 2016. Love it!

Love Durango! I graduated from FLC, ate some of the best food at the Strater for brunch, and married my hubby in Hesperus. ♥️

What a wonderful documentary, I am 4th generation Colorado native, I need to stay here. So incredibly special and beautiful.

@tooligan113

3 жыл бұрын

Ya Hoo a Colorado Native, born in Denver my self 1960.

Love the History of my great mountain town! Long Live Durango!

@revinhatol

3 жыл бұрын

Without the Strater in Durango, Farmington NM wouldn't rise and become Baseball Town USA.

Married in Durango and spent our honeymoon at the Strater in July 2005. Wonderful place.

I got to stay at the Strater once. It was a singular experience that I hope to repeat someday. Wondrful

Fantastic documentary. I stayed at The Strater Hotel quite a few years ago, but it was an experience I will never forget. It was almost magical. Thanks for the post.

Fantastic show. Love Colorado history. Glad to see a mention of Adam Swanson. He is a very great Ragtime player. We look forward to our next trip to Durango.

Looking forward to staying there in June of 2021. My wife loves historic old hotels, and we're staying at The Stanley in Estes Park as well.

His second hotel was probably Colorado's first spite store. Larry David would be proud!

This is very interesting and I definitely think Louis L’Amour when I hear Strater Hotel.

I really wish that I could go and stay there just beautiful!

I lived here 2011-2014 and 2018 my mom worked there

Without the Strater in Durango, Farmington NM wouldn't rise and become Baseball Town USA.

They got me at "The sheriff shot the marshal"

@sketcharmstrong8491

2 жыл бұрын

I shot the sheriff but I did not shoot the deputy....

I worked here in the kitchen with some really cool professional chief's. I meet the owner twice in the kitchen.

@Rebecky31

2 жыл бұрын

I worked there in the 70’s…wore a red dress with a white apron and a cameo on my neck… The gals in the diamond bar wore fishnets and peacock feathers and made tons on money… Lots of oil men would eat there….Absolutely the best green chili. I remember the owner also owned the Pepsi plant and had railroad cars on his property for guest homes…great times.

We ate at the Diamond Belle this past summer. It was a great experience to step back in time.

I was born in Durango Colorado

@revinhatol

3 жыл бұрын

Without the Strater in Durango, Farmington NM wouldn't rise and become Baseball Town USA.

@nmelkhunter1

3 жыл бұрын

@@revinhatol I guess oil and gas didn’t play a roll.

Proud that I’m a daughter of a worker there 😭💕

Stretching the faces in the old portraits to simulate motion is really creepy.

40 sec into this. Stopping in the middle downing my drink. The Sherriff shot the town Marshall? Whaaat?

Very cool

Looks like there are a few pieces missing from the top of the building.

My mom worked there

So did he get all the artifacts back to take to Sweden?

Only thing that angers me about Durango History is local Native Americans who payed the price of our culture and identity, for others to get gold, money, fame and its sad. It's really not much to be proud of in my mind. I'm just thankful our people made it through and adapted so we can continue to survive and hold onto our identity. If only those around us just recognized the sacrifice forced onto the local Utes, and many more tribes across America for the success of that is today for the ancestors of settlers. Native Americans are dying and becoming extinct and that's a fact. Many are adapting and all we ask for is recognition and no more institutional genocide from the US government from treaties and laws made a long time ago. Everything the Utes have now, were made from our own people and I pray we continue that growth.

@rocks5020

3 жыл бұрын

It's not just Durango or out west. Summit County Ohio has mounds many think are native burials. What I will never understand is that until the mid 1800s everyone in America got along for the most part. Check out Michelle Gibson on yt she talks about another history. I'm writing a fictional historic novel about Ohio

@gibransilva3652

3 жыл бұрын

@@rocks5020 sounds good, I’ll have to look into all of that. I’m Ute so I’m really focused on my tribes history right now but I know the utes kept away from settlers and when raids came their way they would always be ahead and just go further into the Rocky Mountains. It was so hard for everyone to track in the Rocky Mountains so they were safe. I’ll have to come back tomorrow and let you know the books I’m reading about it and what happened after 1880 that caused sw Indians to become civilization into American culture. The book I’m reading also includes about all natives surrounding Colorado and other tribe around original Ute land. Mostly the cause of forced reservation and boarding school after 1880s

@yuseflittleb1850

2 жыл бұрын

@@rocks5020 Everyone got along🤔 You must have never heard of Slavery.

@yuseflittleb1850

2 жыл бұрын

All these Pale faces do is Cause Devastation and then make Documentaries changing History to fit their Narratives.

I hope they go bankrupt