Tag: 50th anniversary
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Coloradans get carried away: A guide to the 50th Labor Day Lift Off
If you’re looking for a Labor Day weekend activity that doesn’t involve sweating at a barbecue or arguing over who gets the last burger, may we suggest looking up? For three days, dozens of hot air balloons will inflate across the grass of Memorial Park at 1605 E. Pikes Peak Ave., with their bright colors…
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Trivelli’s Hoagies celebrates 50 years in business in Colorado Springs
“I am jonesing,” Bret Sherback emphasizes each word as he steps up to the ordering counter on a recent Thursday at Trivelli’s Hoagies on North Nevada Avenue. It’s just after 2 p.m. and Sherback, a longtime regular who for at least 20 years has been coming to the cheesesteak and hoagie shop founded in July…
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Shirt Stop celebrates 50 years of business in Colorado Springs
Shirt Stop, a family- and women-owned small business providing custom screen printing, embroidery and promotional materials services, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Colorado Springs this year. What began as a one-man venture initially run by founder Steve Fredrick from home for its first seven years in business — his apartment, then his home basement…
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Meeker Music celebrates 50 pitch-perfect years in Colorado Springs
One Colorado Springs family’s calling to share the magic of music with as many people as possible is still playing on half a century later. On Saturday, Meeker Music will celebrate 50 years in business and highlight the enduring legacy of Charles Meeker Jr., the eponymous family patriarch who founded the company in 1975. Meeker…