Leadville, Colorado - Photography by Dave Nance

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1; border-left-color: #808080" height="429"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" height="429" valign="top"> <h1> </h1> <blockquote> <h4><a href="http://a2.cpimg.com/image/96/15/7024022-0c9a-027801C4-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="http://a2.cpimg.com/image/96/15/7024022-0c9a-027801C4-.jpg" alt="Looking north down Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado" border="0" align="left" width="240" height="171"></a>LEADVILLE, COLORADO</h4> <h2 align="right">From Salt Lake City one travels over great plains of Colorado and up the Rocky Mountains, on the top of which is <b>Leadville</b>, the richest city in the world. . . They are miners—men working in metals, so I lectured them on the Ethics of Art. I read them passages from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and they seemed much delighted. I was reproved by my hearers for not having brought him with me. I explained that he had been dead for some little time which elicited the enquiry ‘Who shot him?’ They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: ‘Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.’ <br> <br> Impressions of America<br> Oscar Wilde, 1882</h2> <p align="right"> </p> </blockquote> <h4 align="center"><a href="#abitabout" target="main"> ABOUT LEADVILLE</a>   |   <a href="colorado/leadville-thum1.htm" target="main">GALLERIES</a></h4> </td> </tr> </table> <hr size="1"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1; border-left-color: #808080"> <tr> <td width="20%" valign="top"> <h1 align="left"><a href="photos/index.htm" target="_top"><img border="0" src="spiral-small2.jpg" align="left" hspace="12" vspace="2" width="34" height="52">PHOTOGRAPHY<br> BY DAVE NANCE</a>    </h1> </td> <td width="70%" valign="top"> <h1>    <a href="photos/places.htm" target="_top">PLACES</a>  :   <a href="colorado/index.htm" target="_top">SOUTHWEST</a>  :   LEADVILLE  :</h1> <h1>    <a href="#abitabout" target="main">ABOUT LEADVILLE</a>    |     <a href="colorado/leadville-thum1.htm" target="main"> GALLERY 1</a>     |     <a href="colorado/leadville-thum2.htm" target="main"> GALLERY 2</a></h1> </td> <td width="10%" valign="top"> <h1 align="left"><a href="contact.htm" target="_self">CONTACT</a></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" colspan="3"> <p> </p> <h1 align="center"><a href="copyrightnotice.htm" target="_self">text and images at this website © 2004 by David B. Nance</a></h1> <p align="center"> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1; border-left-color: #808080" height="429"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="left" height="429" valign="top"> <font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/1E/5B/8684830-6cbc-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self" name="abitabout"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-mt-massive.jpg" alt="Leadville, Colorado, with Mt. Massive" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"> </a></font><font face="Century Gothic" size="4">L</font><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">EADVILLE, COLORADO, "The Cloud City",  sits at an elevation of over 10,100 feet in a broad valley near the source of the Arkansas River.   An old high-mountain mining town which has ridden the boom-bust cycle for more than a century,  it has been slammed by the closings of important mines in the last several decades, but is gamely clawing its way back up off the floor.  </font> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">When I was a young boy, in the 1960's, I went there every summer, to our family's cabin near Tennessee Pass, and I have been going there almost every summer since 1995.  It's a <i>real</i> town,  and it has the hard and gritty edge of a place just hanging on by the skin of its teeth.  In  other words, it's nothing like Vail, or Aspen, or Breckenridge, or any of the other tourist-money-soaked mountain resort towns. That's why I love it. </font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="colorado/leadvillepanorama400.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-panorama.jpg" alt="This large (1438x400 pixels) panoramic looks west-northwest across Leadville, at sunrise. Turquoise Lake is in the background." border="0" align="right" width="378" height="98"></a>This page (which is perpetually under construction) contains some some more-or-less random ramblings about a number of locations in and around Leadville, with links to photos.  Just scroll down to see them.</font></p> <p> </p> <hr size="1">   <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="tennesseepark">TENNESSEE PARK</a> </font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a4.cpimg.com/image/10/7C/5860624-0a48-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-cabin-mt-elbert.jpg" alt="Old cabin in Tennessee Park, north of Leadville, Colorado (w. Homestake Peak)" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a>A "park" is a natural geographic feature -- a large, relatively flat area, surrounded on all sides by mountains.  In Colorado, two of the largest are North Park, which is in Rocky Mountain National Park, and South Park, east of Leadville on the other side of the Mosquito Range.  (By the way, to get an idea of what South Park <i>really</i> looks like, put the cartoon out of your mind, and take a look at these pictures of roadside memorials there: <a target="_self" href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/00/B5/7767040-884c-025801E4-.jpg">2 Randys</a> / <a target="_self" href="http://a7.cpimg.com/image/31/D0/6736177-b941-027001ED-.jpg">unmarked</a> ).</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/1F/7C/5860639-df4b-027801D5-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-cabin-homestake.jpg" alt="Old cabin in Tennessee Park, north of Leadville, Colorado (w. Mt. Elbert)" border="0" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a>Tennessee Park, located just north of Leadville, is much smaller -- only a few miles across.   U.S. Highway 24 cuts across it south to north, dividing a sage-covered and relatively barren east half from a better-watered pasture area on the west, where this cabin is located. It is one of a group of buildings on the old "Rancho Escondido".</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">Large herds of cattle used to be run on the pastures, but now, with the abandonment of "Rancho Escondido", Tennessee Park is  a lonely place.  Apart from the traffic on Hwy. 24  -- Leadville natives heading to and from their jobs in Vail, 30 some-odd miles to the north,  or the occasional visitor to the private Trout Creek development -- little happens.  That traffic is responsible for one of the other things that marks Tennessee Park now: roadside memorials ["<a target="_self" href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/FF/B5/7767039-508d-025801E4-.jpg">nacio 8/29/75</a>"].   </font></p> <hr size="1">   <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="oldschool">THE OLD MALTA SCHOOLHOUSE</a></font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/3C/C8/7077180-7ea7-02790203-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-school-malta-1.jpg" alt="The old school in Stringtown; Leadville, Colorado" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a>South of Leadville, past the ramshackle settlement of Stringtown , U.S. Hwy 24  makes a wide turn past a classic old "little red schoolhouse".  </font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/71/3D/7033201-084f-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-school-malta-2.jpg" alt="The old school in Stringtown, just south of Leadville" align="right" width="98" height="98"></font></a>The old school, now empty but obviously well taken care of, is actually in the Malta, a now non-existent railroad siding stop, but even though it is a couple of miles short of the Leadville city limits, it has become something of an icon for the city.  </font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">It always feels that way to me, at least.  When you're rolling up from the south, you know when you swing past the old Malta schoolhouse that Leadville is just up the hill. </font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">And, it provides a nice contrast to what lies pretty much directly across the highway from it -- the dark, dirty, abandoned railroad terminal, the slag heaps with the rusted head frames leaning at awkward angles, and the little bubbling brook running alongside of them, well stocked with the acid /heavy metal runoff of the Leadville Mining District...</font></p> <p><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">  <a href="http://a5.cpimg.com/image/6B/3D/7033195-7fb1-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-school-malta-3.jpg" alt="The old school in Stringtown, just south of Leadville" width="98" height="98"></a>         <a href="http://a5.cpimg.com/image/75/3D/7033205-88ca-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-school-malta-4.jpg" alt="The old school in Stringtown, just south of Leadville" width="98" height="98"></a>    </font>            <font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/66/3D/7033190-65bd-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-school-malta-5.jpg" alt="The old school in Stringtown, just south of Leadville" width="98" height="98"></a>                      <a href="http://a7.cpimg.com/image/77/3D/7033207-acf3-02790201-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-school-malta-6.jpg" alt="The old school in Stringtown, just south of Leadville" width="98" height="98"></a>  </font></font></p> <p> </p> <hr size="1"> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"> </font> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="goldenburro">THE GOLDEN BURRO</a></font> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/2C/96/5861420-c230-027901FF-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-golden-burro-2.jpg" alt="The Golden Burro, on Harrison Avenue; Leadville, Colorado" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a>When I was a kid, in the 1960's, my family would spend a month every summer in our cabin in the woods north of Leadville. <font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a7.cpimg.com/image/81/3D/7033217-03da-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-golden-burro-4.jpg" alt="The Golden Burro, on Harrison Avenue" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font> Sure, we'd come into town every few days to pick up this or that at Western Hardware, "downtown" on Harrison Avenue, or at the brand-new Safeway on the north end of town, and to check for general delivery mail at the Post Office --  but we wouldn't eat out.  Even though we were on vacation, we had a perfectly good cabin and a perfectly good wood stove and a perfectly good icebox and a perfectly good sink with running water piped in from the spring up the hill, so we could eat at home. </font> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">Right before we left to head back to the flatlands, though, usually on our last night, we'd go into Leadville, and we'd eat at the Golden Burro. <a href="http://a8.cpimg.com/image/00/7B/5860608-4089-0279026B-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-golden-burro-3.jpg" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a> To me it was like a palace, with all the lights, the glass blocks in the big front window, the curved naugahyde-upholstered booths, and all that neon out front -- especially the burro, way up on top, with its neon tail that switched back and forth. I don't remember what I usually ate; a hamburger, I'm sure.  The event was just being there.</font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">The Burro is still there on Harrison Avenue, amazingly unchanged.  How long that will be so, is anyone's guess.</font></p> <p> </p> <hr size="1"> <p> </p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="churches">CHURCHES</a></font></p> <p><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/95/C2/5815189-3429-027701ED-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-fifth-street.jpg" alt="Looking east down 7th Street" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font face="Century Gothic">In photos of Leadville, the spire of the Annunciation (Catholic) Church is frequently a prominent feature. The church, on the corner of Poplar and East 7th, was built in 1879. The steeple holds a huge bell, "St. Mary", weighing over 3,000 pounds. The famous "Unsinkable Molly Brown" was married in the church on September 1, 1886, and the funeral services for Baby Doe Tabor were held here in 1935.</font></font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/B1/16/7024049-7c4c-01CF0279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-church-4.jpg" alt="Looking east up East 7th Street, towards Annunciation Church" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font>The exterior church walls bear signs reading "Danger – Avalanche". They do not refer to avalanches on the slopes above town; the danger they warn of is an avalanche of snow sliding off the roof of the church.  Leadville averages over 300 inches of snow per season;  people have been killed by snow falling off the roofs of regular houses.  A substantial "slump" of snow off the large, high roof of Annunciation Church would indeed be a serious danger.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/F5/5A/7216629-b7e4-02190279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-church-2.jpg" align="right" alt="Assembly of God Church (erected 1888 as the Ev. Lutheran Church)" width="98" height="98"></a><a href="http://a5.cpimg.com/image/4F/02/5840975-f870-01ED0279-.jpg" target="_self"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-church-1.jpg" alt="Assembly of God Church (erected 1888 as the Ev. Lutheran Church)" align="left" width="98" height="98"></font></a>Although  quite a bit smaller, this church is also a classic piece of old Leadville.   </font></p> <p><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">Now the Assembly of God Church, it was erected 1888 as the First Evangelical Lutheran Church. </font></p> <p> </p> <p><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/0B/5B/7216651-1d74-02790201-.jpg"><img alt="Assembly of God Church (erected 1888 as the Ev. Lutheran Church)" border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-church-3.jpg" width="98" height="98"></a></font></p> <font face="Century Gothic"> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/35/64/11026229-ab2c-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-oldchurch.jpg" align="left" alt="The "Old Church" - the Presbyterian Church on Harrison Avenue" width="98" height="98"></a>The old Presbyterian Church on Harrison Avenue is referred to by many locals just as "the Old Church".  It was dedicated in 1889, and has been a defining presence on Harrison Avenue ever since.</font> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font size="2">And, speaking of churches, just across the street from the "Old Church" is the "<a href="#cosmos">Temple Of The Living God Cosmos</a>" . . .</font> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </font> <hr size="1"> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="harrisonavenue">HARRISON AVENUE</a></font> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a2.cpimg.com/image/96/15/7024022-0c9a-027801C4-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-harrison-1.jpg" alt="Looking north down Harrison Avenue" width="98" height="98"></a>    <a href="http://a7.cpimg.com/image/07/D6/7022087-cda9-02790201-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-harrison-2.jpg" alt="Along Harrison Avenue" width="98" height="98"></a>     <a href="http://a6.cpimg.com/image/DE/D5/7022046-dd9e-027801C4-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-harrison-3.jpg" alt="Along Harrison Avenue" width="98" height="98"></a>     <a href="http://a3.cpimg.com/image/D1/D5/7022033-9b48-02780157-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-harrison-5.jpg" alt="Along Harrison Avenue" width="98" height="98"></a></font> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2">Harrison Avenue is Leadville's main drag. Its many ornate, multi-storied brick buildings evidence Leadville's past as a major city in Colorado.       </font> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a2.cpimg.com/image/C6/CC/9727942-68e2-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-tabor-opera-house.jpg" alt="The Tabor Opera House, erected 1879." align="left" width="98" height="98"></a><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">One of the most impressive buildings along Harrison Avenue, both inside and out is the old <a href="http://www.leadvilleusa.com/history/tabor-opera.htm" target="_top">Tabor Opera House</a>, erected in 1879 by mining magnate H. A. W. Tabor .    </font></font> <p align="left"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="tahoma,helvetica"><a href="http://a8.cpimg.com/image/BA/16/7024058-18d6-02000278-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-furmans-store.jpg" alt="Furman's Store. "Quality furniture since 1937". The Furmans are still represented in Leadville by Evelyn Furman, a local historian and biographer of "Baby Doe" Tabor." align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">Next door is Furman's Store.  Evelyn Furman, a historian of Leadville and biographer of "Baby Doe" Tabor, rescued the Tabor Opera House from demolition in the 1950's, and still conducts tours of its interior.      </font></font> <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <hr size="1"> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="delaware">THE DELAWARE HOTEL</a></font> <p align="left"><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/FB/A5/9798139-b260-01A60268-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-delaware-hotel-rainbow.jpg" alt="The Delaware Hotel, Leadville, Colorado" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a></font><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/13/F0/9752851-d6b8-027801AD-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-delaware-hotel-lobby-1.jpg" alt="In the lobby of the Delaware Hotel" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a><font face="Century Gothic">The <a href="http://www.delawarehotel.com" target="_top">Delaware Hotel</a>, on Harrison Avenue, was built in 1886.   Doc Holliday is said to have stayed there for a time, until a dispute with a bartender (in which some shooting was involved) led to his hasty departure.  Butch Cassidy is also said to have been a sometime-guest.</font></font> <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">The Delaware underwent major renovations in 1992.  There are now 36 rooms and suites on the 2d and 3d floors. They retain a wonderfully authentic feel, with antique furniture and 4-poster beds. </font> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a5.cpimg.com/image/17/F0/9752855-357a-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-delaware-hotel-lobby-2.jpg" alt="In the lobby of the Delaware Hotel" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a><font color="#000000" face="tahoma,helvetica"><a href="http://a5.cpimg.com/image/F1/D6/7022065-a63a-02790201-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-golden-burro-1.jpg" alt="The Manhattan Bar, the Delaware, and the Burro" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font face="Century Gothic">The spacious and comfortable lobby, and Callaway's restaurant, are at ground level.  There is a bar in the lobby; while its hours are somewhat irregular, the Manhattan Bar, and the bar of the Golden Burro, are both only a few steps away.  There are also a couple of terrific coffee houses nearby, one just a few doors down (Tracks Coffee Company), and one across the street (Cloud City Coffee House). </font></font> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/27/F0/9752871-35e6-02790201-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-delaware-hotel-kids.jpg" alt="The front of the Delaware Hotel, on Harrison Avenue" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a><font face="Century Gothic">Without question, the Delaware is <u>the</u> place to stay in Leadville.  Centrally located in the heart of the historic downtown district, it provides a great base for exploring the town -- or for just sitting in an open window and watching life go by on Harrison Avenue.</font></font> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="tahoma,helvetica">  </font>                 <font face="Century Gothic">     </font></font> <p align="left">  <hr size="1"> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="scarletinn">THE SCARLET INN</a> </font> <p align="left"><font size="2"><font face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a6.cpimg.com/image/46/02/5840966-8924-027801B2-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-harrison-sunset.jpg" alt="The east side of Harrison Avenue, at sunset" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">The Scarlet Inn is located at the corner of East 4th Street and Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado.  Bar, pool tables.  Nice place. </font></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><font color="#000000">According to information at the <a href="http://www.leadville.com/walktour/">www.leadville.com walking tour of Leadville</a>, the building was built in 1887 as the Breene Block, named from Lt. Governor and State Treasurer of Colorado, Peter W. Breene, who provided the funding.  Initially the first floor was occupied by Adolph Hirsch’s liquor store, which had some of the highest volume of any business in Western Colorado in the 1880's.  They still like to drink in Leadville.</font><font><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/31/22/5841969-2c62-027801DD-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-scarlet-inn-night-3.jpg" alt="The Scarlet Inn; Leadville, Colorado" border="0" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font></font> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2">The Scarlet used to have a striking sign out on Harrison avenue, but it was laid low sometime in the late 1990's by an errant semi.   In May, 2000, I spotted it lying in a backyard a few blocks away, and it may still be there; apparently, the owner has hung onto it.   No word on whether he has any plans to try to restore it to its rightful place.  I vote:  do it!</font> <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><font color="#000000">I stopped in to the Scarlet for a bourbon one afternoon in August, 2001, and the bartender Carrie and good-natured patrons were kind enough to let me do some shooting. <a href="http://a3.cpimg.com/image/8F/C2/5815183-2230-02760195-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-scarlet-inn-1.jpg" alt="Inside the Scarlet, on an August afternoon" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">With my cameras. </font></font> <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic"><font size="2"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/8B/C2/5815179-7082-0277026B-.jpg" target="_self"><font color="#000000"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-scarlet-inn-wide-2.jpg" alt="Inside the Scarlet (detail)" align="left" width="98" height="98"></font></a><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">One of the patrons did his part to expand my photogaphic options by climbing down off his bar stool and dropping trou.  I somehow managed to avoid capturing this image<font face="Century Gothic">.</font>  All for the best, I think.  </font></font> <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <hr size="1"> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">OTHER BARS, JOINTS, AND ESTABLISHMENTS</font> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a6.cpimg.com/image/00/B5/5910016-3425-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-grill-mexican-food.jpg" alt="The Grill -- great Mexican food" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a> The Grill.  Operated by the Martinez family since 1965.  Great Mexican food.  I never pass up the opportunity to eat here when I pass through Leadville.</font> <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/C5/D4/7022021-bbff-01DF0279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-manhattan-bar-sign-2.jpg" alt="The Manhattan Bar, and the Vendome" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a> The Manhattan Bar, on Harrison Avenue.  </font> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic">I suspect that it has been a long time since anyone ordered a Manhattan in this bar.      </font>    <a href="http://a8.cpimg.com/image/06/EF/9752838-a8ac-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-manhattan-bar.jpg" alt="The Manhattan Bar" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font> <p align="left"><font size="2"> <font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a2.cpimg.com/image/F8/D6/7022072-6819-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-manhattan-bar-sign-1.jpg" alt="The Manhattan Bar" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a></font></font> <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <p align="left">  <hr size="1"> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">LOCAL COLOR</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/45/C8/7077189-0df1-02150279-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-yellow-garage.jpg" alt="A garage; Leadville, Colorado" border="0" width="98" height="98"></a>     <font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a4.cpimg.com/image/86/C2/5815174-6f37-02000195-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-blue-corner.jpg" alt="Blue corner (East 5th and Poplar)" width="98" height="98"></a>     </font><a href="http://a5.cpimg.com/image/D5/7A/5860565-90e0-0278019E-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-murillo.jpg" alt="Video Murillo, Leadville, Colorado" border="0" width="98" height="98"></a>       <font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/4F/65/7026511-25d3-01BB0279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-building.jpg" alt="On U.S. 24, on the north end" width="98" height="98"></a>     <a href="http://a3.cpimg.com/image/47/65/7026503-6a09-02780188-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-old-buildings.jpg" alt="On U.S. 24, on the north end" width="98" height="98"></a></font></font> <p align="left">  <hr size="1"> <p align="left">  <p align="left"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a name="cosmos">THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD COSMOS, ON HARRISON AVENUE</a></font> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"><a href="http://a8.cpimg.com/image/86/C2/6005638-2a95-01CD0279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-god-cosmos-1.jpg" alt="Temple of the Living God Cosmos; on Harrison Avenue" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a><a href="http://a3.cpimg.com/image/3D/65/7026493-dcbb-027801C7-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-god-cosmos-2.jpg" alt=""Temple of the God Cosmos"; on Harrison Avenue" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a> </font><font size="2">The sign on the porch reads:</font> <blockquote> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="2">Temple Of The Living God Cosmos <br>     And Of His Cosmic Holy Spirit<br>      And Miracle Healing Powers<br>       For A Safe And Happy Life</font> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2">I had always wondered about the story behind the "Temple Of The Living God Cosmos".  I asked for help here, and someone e-mailed me this bit of information:</font> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="2">"Cosmos is the name of the man who lives in that house. Cosmos came to Leadville probably in the late 1980s.  Haven't seen him for awhile. You used to always be able to find him sitting in front of the 'Old Church'. He dresses in black, black hat too and a beard. I always thought he looked good sitting there meditating."</font> </blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="2">From another e-mail correspondent, I heard this:</font> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="2">"My mom was friends with Cosmos 'the guru' in the 80s -- he told her she didn't need any more God, but that she needed a really good lover.  He was always saying off the wall stuff like that -- she found it most amusing". </font> </blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a9.cpimg.com/image/35/64/11026229-ab2c-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-oldchurch.jpg" align="left" alt="The "Old Church" - the Presbyterian Church on Harrison Avenue" width="98" height="98"></a>(By "the Old Church", the first writer is referring to the old Presbyterian Church which sits on Harrison Avenue across from the "Temple Of The Living God Cosmos".) </font> <p align="left"><font size="2">You can read more about it, and some other Leadville churches, <a href="#churches">above</a>).</font> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2">If anyone out there</font><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic" size="2"> has any additional information about this (or any other) bit of Leadville "local color", please <a href="contact.htm" target="_self">contact me</a>.     </font> <p align="left">  <hr size="1"> <p> </p> <p><font size="2">ASSORTED SIGHTS AND LOCALES</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="2"><a href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/76/D2/5934710-c165-027801B6-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-vendome-2.jpg" alt="The old Hotel Vendome building" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a> I think of this grand old structure on Harrison Avenue, dating to the 1880's, as the Vendome Hotel. That's because when I first started coming to Leadville in the 1960's there was a huge "Vendome Hotel" sign perched on top of the prominent "hat" on the corner.  Now, it is referred to as the "Tabor Grand". <br>      </font></p> <p align="right"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a1.cpimg.com/image/7F/C2/6005631-3d64-027801B0-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-st-vincents.jpg" alt="An old building" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font color="#000000">The old St. Vincent hospital</font><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"> </font></font></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font size="2"><a href="http://a2.cpimg.com/image/4C/A7/5369932-e50a-0249018C-.jpg" target="_self"><img src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-south.jpg" alt="An old cabin, just south of Leadville" border="0" align="left" width="98" height="98"></a><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"> </font>An old building, <br> on U.S. 24 south of Leadville   </font></p> <p><font size="2">     </font></p> <p align="right"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Century Gothic"><a href="http://a0.cpimg.com/image/7A/3D/7033210-f7e2-02010279-.jpg" target="_self"><img border="0" src="thumbs/leadville-colorado-s-descanso.jpg" alt="A roadside memorial, on U.S. 24, south of Leadville" align="right" width="98" height="98"></a></font><font color="#000000">A roadside memorial, <br> on U.S. 24, south of Leadville</font></font></p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="right"> </p> </font> <p align="left">   </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr size="1"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1; border-left-color: #808080"> <tr> <td width="20%" valign="top"> <h1 align="left"><a href="photos/index.htm" target="_top"><img border="0" src="spiral-small2.jpg" align="left" hspace="12" vspace="2" width="34" height="52">PHOTOGRAPHY<br> BY DAVE NANCE</a>    </h1> </td> <td width="70%" valign="top"> <h1>    <a href="photos/places.htm" target="_top">PLACES</a>  :   <a href="colorado/index.htm" target="_top">SOUTHWEST</a>  :   LEADVILLE  :</h1> <h1>    <a href="#abitabout" target="main">ABOUT LEADVILLE</a>    |     <a href="colorado/leadville-thum1.htm" target="main">GALLERY 1</a>    |     <a href="colorado/leadville-thum2.htm" target="main">GALLERY 2</a></h1> </td> <td width="10%" valign="top"> <h1 align="left"><a href="contact.htm" target="_self">CONTACT</a></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" colspan="3"> <p> </p> <h1 align="center"><a href="copyrightnotice.htm" target="_self">text and images at this website © 2004 by David B. Nance</a></h1> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <h1 align="center"><a href="index.htm" target="_top">the old same place</a></h1> </td> </tr> </table>