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Yup. The old Mile High Center is seen on the right. At the time of Hol Wagner's post card photograph, it had not even been built. When it was, in the early 1950's, at 23 stories, it was Denver's tallest building until about 1959, when the First National Bank Building was (28 stories) was built. These two buildings are now among the shortest skyscrapers in downtown Denver.
From: "nick.gully@gmail.com" <nick.gully@gmail.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 6:32 PM Subject: RE: Re: [CBQ] Denver Zephyr Sign [1 Attachment] Here is about the same shot slightly farther north up Broadway today. The only building that appears to be the same is the stone spire of the Trinity United Methodist Church you can see through the hotel sign. -Nick ---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <cbq@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I see the Shirley-Savoy Hotel in the background, suggesting to me that the picture was taken from the southwest corner of Colfax and Broadway. Judging from the cars in the picture and the paint scheme on the trolley buses, it had to be closer to 1950 than 1955. Do you remember
when Tramway switched their colors to red and cream? From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@...> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 12:48 PM Subject: [CBQ] Denver Zephyr Sign [1 Attachment] When I came to Denver in 1949 we lived for a time in a downtown hotel on 17th Street, and one of my strongest memories is of the illuminated and animated Denver Zephyr sign on the attached postcard. The sign was a mixture of neon and incandescant bulbs that blinked off and on is rapid succession to give the impression the Zephyr was at speed. There was a similar sign a block or two away for the Rocky Mountain Rocket, with an E6 on the point. In this postcard view the streetcar tracks are gone but trolley buses are still in use, which dates the scene to between June 1950, when the last streetcars ran, and 1955, when the trolley buses were replaced with diesel buses.
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